Stock Report: Colgate-Palmolive Co. (CL) Report Updated: Nov 16, 2009  |  Print This Page

Colgate-Palmolive Company, together with its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets consumer products worldwide. It operates in two segments, Oral, Personal, and Home Care; and Pet Nutrition. The Oral, Personal, and Home Care segment offers toothpaste, toothbrushes, oral rinses, dental floss, and pharmaceutical products for dentists and other oral health professionals, shower gels, shampoos, conditioners, bar and liquid hand soaps, deodorants and antiperspirants, dishwashing liquids, household cleaners, oil soaps, fabric conditioners, shave products, laundry and dishwashing detergents, cleansers, and bleaches. The Pet Nutrition segment produces pet nutrition products for dogs and cats. The company offers its products under the Colgate, Palmolive, Mennen, Speed Stick, Lady Speed Stick, Softsoap, Irish Spring, Protex, Sorriso, Kolynos, Elmex, Tom’s of Maine, Ajax, Axion, Fabuloso, Soupline, Suavitel, Hill’s Science Diet, and Hill’s Prescription Diet names. It sells its products to wholesale and retail distributors, and to veterinarians and specialty pet retailers. The company was founded in 1806 and is headquartered in New York, New York.