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, each invested $100 to set up a factory The Electro-Alkaline Company was founded on May 3, 1913, as the first commercial-scale liquid bleach manufacturer in the United States. 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. Ranked annually since 2000, Clorox was named number 474 on Fortune magazine's 2020 Fortune 500 list.Ĭlorox products are sold primarily through mass merchandisers, retail outlets, e-commerce channels, distributors, and medical supply providers. Net sales for the 2020 fiscal year were US$6.7 billion. As of 2020 the Oakland, California-based company had approximately 8,800 employees worldwide. The Clorox Company (formerly Clorox Chemical Company) is an American global manufacturer and marketer of consumer and professional products.
