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Henkel Corporation, doing business as Henkel North American Consumer Goods and formerly The Dial Corporation, is an American company based in Stamford, Connecticut. [2] [3] [4] It is a manufacturer of personal care and household cleaning products and is a subsidiary of multinational company Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Henkel Consumer Goods Inc.).
Dial is an American brand of soap, body wash and hand sanitizer manufactured by Henkel North American Consumer Goods, the American subsidiary of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA. It was the world's first antibacterial soap.
This limited body odor by reducing bacteria on the skin. The new soap was named Dial because of its 24-hour protection against the odor-causing bacteria. Armour introduced the soap with a full-page advertisement using scented ink in the Chicago Tribune. During the 1950s, Dial became the best-selling deodorant soap in the US.
[4] [5] In 1985, the household and consumer products business of Purex Industries, Inc. was acquired by Greyhound Corporation [6] and was combined with Greyhound's Armour-Dial to form The Dial Corporation. By the 1990s, Dial would discontinue the Purex Bleach product to focus on laundry detergents.
The Greyhound Corporation acquired the consumer products business of Purex (which included Fels-Naptha) in 1985 and was combined with Greyhound's Armour-Dial division, forming The Dial Corporation. [4] In December 2003, Dial was sold to Henkel for $2.9 billion. [5] In September 2022, Summit Brands acquired Fels-Naptha from Henkel. [6]
Dial (soap) F. Fels-Naptha; P. Purex (laundry detergent) R. Renuzit This page was last edited on 1 June 2008, at 15:07 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...