Clorox Company
Type	Public (NYSE: CLX)
Founded	1913
Headquarters	Oakland, California
Industry	Food, Chemicals
Products	Food, chemicals, cleaning fluids
Revenue	$4.58 billion USD (2006, June)
Net income	$457 million USD (2006, June)
Employees	7,600 [1]
Website	www.thecloroxcompany.com

Clorox headquarters

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History

The product and the company date to May 3, 1913, when five entrepreneurs, Archibald Taft, a banker; Edward Hughes, a purveyor of wood and coal; Charles Husband, a bookkeeper; Rufus Myers, a lawyer; and William Hussey, a miner, invested $100 apiece to set up the first commercial-scale liquid bleach factory in the United States, on the east side of San Francisco Bay.^{[citation needed]} The firm was first called the Electro-Alkaline Company.^{[citation needed]} In 1917, it developed a less concentrated version for household, rather than industrial, use, and sales took off. is the 123rd day of the year (124th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1913 (MCMXIII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... For other uses, see Bank (disambiguation). ... For other uses, see Wood (disambiguation). ... Coal Coal (IPA: ) is a fossil fuel formed in swamp ecosystems where plant remains were saved by water and mud from oxidization and biodegradation. ... Accountancy (British English) or accounting (American English) is the process of maintaining, auditing, and processing financial information for business purposes. ... For the fish called lawyer, see Burbot. ... The El Chino Mine located near Silver City, New Mexico is an open-pit copper mine Mining is the extraction of valuable minerals or other geological materials from the earth, usually (but not always) from an ore body, vein, or (coal) seam. ... This article is about the chemical whitener. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... San Francisco Bay, San Pablo Bay, and the Golden Gate San Francisco Bay is a shallow, productive estuary through which water draining approximately forty percent of California, flowing in the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers from the Sierra Nevada mountains, enters the Pacific Ocean. ... 1917 (MCMXVII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar (see link for calendar) or a common year starting on Tuesday of the 13-day slower Julian calendar (see: 1917 Julian calendar). ... The household is the basic unit of analysis in many microeconomic and government models. ...

In 1928, the company went public on the San Francisco stock exchange and changed its name to the Clorox Chemical Company. "Butch," an animated Clorox liquid bleach bottle, was used in advertising and became well-known, even surviving the 1941 transition from rubber-stoppered bottles to ones with screw-off caps. Year 1928 (MCMXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... The bouncing ball animation (below) consists of these 6 frames. ... Composite body, painted, and glazed bottle. ... “Advert” redirects here. ... For other uses, see 1941 (disambiguation). ...

During World War II, when chlorine gas shortages forced many bleach manufacturers to reduce the concentration of sodium hypochlorite in their products, Clorox elected to sell fewer units of a full-strength product, establishing a reputation for quality. Combatants Allied powers: China France Great Britain Soviet Union United States and others Axis powers: Germany Italy Japan and others Commanders Chiang Kai-shek Charles de Gaulle Winston Churchill Joseph Stalin Franklin Roosevelt Adolf Hitler Benito Mussolini Hideki Tōjō Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000... General Name, Symbol, Number chlorine, Cl, 17 Series halogens Group, Period, Block 17 (VIIA), 3, p Density, Hardness 3. ... Sodium hypochlorite is a chemical compound with the formula NaClO. A solution of sodium hypochlorite is frequently used as a disinfectant and as a bleaching agent; indeed, often it is simply called bleach, though other chemicals are sometimes given that name as well. ...

In 1957, Clorox was bought by Procter & Gamble, a purchase that was challenged by the Federal Trade Commission, which feared it would stifle competition in the household products market. The FTC won, and in 1969, Clorox again was made independent. Year 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link displays the 1957 Gregorian calendar). ... Procter & Gamble Co. ... | logo_caption = | seal = US-FederalTradeCommission-Seal. ... Also: 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ...

Brands

The Clorox Company now owns a number of other well-known household and professional brands across a wide variety of products, among them:

• Brita water filtration systems
• Clorox® Anywhere Hard Surface™ daily sanitizing spray
• Glad storage bags, trash bags, Press'n Seal, and GladWare containers
• Hidden Valley Ranch, Kitchen Bouquet, and KC Masterpiece salad dressings and sauces
• Kingsford charcoal
• Lestoil, Pine-Sol, Tilex, and S.O.S cleaning products
• Liquid-Plumr clog remover
• Formula 409 hard surface cleaners
• Fresh Step, EverClean and Scoop Away cat litters
• ArmorAll and STP automotive products
• The iRobot Scooba floor-cleaning robot's standard cleaning solution (nicknamed "Scooba juice" by users) is manufactured by Clorox

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External links

• The Clorox Company
• Clorox (consumer products portal)