Clorox Co (CLX) company profile

The Clorox Company manufactures and markets consumer and professional goods across four main reportable segments: Health and Wellness, Household, Lifestyle, and International. Its product portfolio spans household cleaning, disinfecting, and laundry care products, hand hygiene and sanitizing solutions, trash bags, cat litter, grilling fuels, food condiments, water-filtration systems, and natural personal care items. Key brands include Clorox, Pine-Sol, Liquid-Plumr, Purell, Glad, Fresh Step, Kingsford, Hidden Valley, Brita, and Burt's Bees. The enterprise serves both retail consumers and business-to-business clients in healthcare, institutional, janitorial, and food-service industries, distributing through mass merchandisers, supermarkets, warehouse clubs, dollar stores, hardware centers, digital storefronts, and third-party distributors.

Clorox operates in approximately 25 countries or territories and sells its merchandise across roughly 95 worldwide markets. The organization employs about 9,200 individuals globally, with roughly three-quarters of its staff working within the United States. Clorox is headquartered in Oakland, California, and maintains a major research and development campus in Pleasanton, California, as well as operational bases such as Clorox Purell in northeast Ohio.

Summary of the business section of Clorox's latest annual report, written by StockData.

“Actually paid” adjusts reported pay for changes in the value of equity awards. Shareholder return assumes $100 invested at the start of the measurement period, as disclosed by the company.

Stock and option awards are grant-date fair values, not realized pay. “Other” includes pension value changes and all other compensation. Source proxy statement.

“As of June 30, 2026, the Company employed about 9,200 people worldwide, with 77% in the United States and 23% working outside the United States.”