The CLOROX Company (formerly CLOROX Chemical Company), based in Oakland, California, is an American global manufacturer and marketer of consumer and professional products,with approximately 8,800 employees worldwide, as of 2020. Net sales for the company's 2020 fiscal year were US$6.7 billion. Ranked annually since 2000, CLOROX was named number 474 on Fortune magazine's 2020 Fortune 500 list. CLOROX products are sold primarily through mass merchandisers, retail outlets, e-commerce channels, distributors, and medical supply providers. CLOROX brands include its namesake bleach and cleaning products, as well as Burt's Bees, Formula 409, Glad, Hidden Valley, Kingsford, Kitchen Bouquet, KC Masterpiece, Liquid-Plumr, Brita (in the Americas), Mistolin, Pine-Sol, Poett, Green Works Cleaning Products, Soy Vay,RenewLife, Rainbow Light, Natural Vitality, Neocell,Tilex, S.O.S., and Fresh Step, Scoop Away, and Ever Clean pet products.The beginnings of CLOROX bleach and the company date back 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 each to set up the first commercial-scale liquid bleach factory in the United States, on the east side of San Francisco Bay.The firm was first called Electro-Alkaline Company.The name of its original bleach product, CLOROX, was coined as a portmanteau of chlorine and sodium hydroxide, the two main ingredients. The original CLOROX packaging featured a diamond-shaped logo, and the diamond logo has been used in one form or another in CLOROX branding to the present.
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