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What’s in a Brand? The Clorox FY18 Annual Report Answers ‘Everything’

Value. Innovation. Leadership. These qualities applied to our diverse portfolio of leading brands are a formula for long-term growth.

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Atlanta West: Creating Opportunities, Driving Growth

Production is now in full swing at Atlanta West, the new manufacturing facility for Clorox Home Care products. We catch up with two employees — one new and one veteran — about life and opportunities at the plant.

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Manufacturing Clorox Pride

October is Manufacturing Month. Take a look at how our manufacturing footprint has grown since Clorox was founded in 1913.

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California Cleaning Plant Embraces Growth and Sustainability

Our sole West Coast bleach and Home Care plant has reinvented itself since January 2016. We've added a third shift with new full-time employees to run it. We're producing twice as much as we were before, much of it on new machinery. And we've done this while becoming more sustainable.

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Evolve This: Our 103-Year Health and Wellness Journey

We've released our FY16 annual report. Read about our evolution.

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Smashing Organizational Silos

We asked ourselves a question: “How might we leverage the expertise of every shopper function when developing a Clorox go-to-market plan?”…

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Swimming Upstream and Down for a Smaller Eco Footprint

Fact: Only about 12 percent of our company’s environmental impact comes from operating our 37 plants worldwide.

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Corporate Equality Index: What a 100% Score Really Means

Clorox has earned a top score of 100 percent on the Human Rights Campaign's (HRC) 2016 Corporate Equality Index (CEI).

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Ten Tips for Working on Virtual Teams

When the management team at Clorox signed off on my request to relocate from our corporate headquarters in Oakland, California, to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 2010, I became one of the beneficiaries of the company's willingness to flex to retain high-performing individuals and joined the growing arm of men and women…

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Profitable and Responsible Growth for All Stakeholders

Clorox issued its fiscal year 2015 Integrated Annual Report this week. Following is an excerpt from Benno Dorer’s CEO letter.

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Navin Kunde on How Clorox Embraces “Open Innovation” to Develop Breakthrough Ideas

At Clorox, innovation is key to the company’s 2020 Strategy. In fact, Clorox employs a team dedicated to discovering innovative ideas both internally and externally. Some team members act as ambassadors to outside firms, developing mutually-beneficial relationships with companies like Google. Among the leaders of this discipline is…

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2014 Integrated Annual Reports Reflects 2020 Strategy

Our 2014 integrated annual report  is now available and highlights our financial, environmental, social and governance performance in the context of our 2020 Strategy. This year's theme — Powered by Value — reflects our drive to create value for our stakeholders, from consumers to customers, from stockholders to employees. As with last…

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Clorox 2013 Integrated Annual Report is Out!

  It’s that time of year again …our 2013 integrated annual report is now available and highlights our financial, environmental, social and governance performance. The theme is "Powerful. Purposeful. Proven,” a nod to our powerful brands, purposeful strategy and proven results. In the last few years, it seems like…

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Forward-Looking Sustainability Goals Guide Everyday Actions

This post was written by Paula Alexander, director of Sustainable Business for Burt’s Bees and president of the Burt’s Bees Greater Good Foundation. I recently joined some of the biggest players in business, including Google, Coca-Cola, Boeing and Procter & Gamble at the Corporate Eco Forum in Chicago. On the…

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Burt’s Bees Social Responsibility Report Takes Lessons from Bees

This post was written by Paula Alexander, director of Sustainable Business for Burt’s Bees and president of the Burt’s Bees Greater Good Foundation. Authenticity, transparency and sustainability are important strands of the Burt’s Bees brand DNA. We bring this to life through the “% natural” indicator on…

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Ongoing Printing Conservation Program Saves Money, Shrinks Footprint

This post was written by Larry R. Youngman, senior service delivery manager in IT Customer Computing. In the course of my work providing IT services, I was struck by the volume of print that the company produces each month (in the domestic United States). As our workforce transitions toward more…

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100 Years and Counting

  On May 7, I joined a group of folks from Clorox to ring the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate Clorox’s centennial anniversary. It was an incredible feeling to see our centennial banners wrap the façade of the stock exchange and even more incredible to “ring”…

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Clorox Named to Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations List

During the recent World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Clorox was listed on the 2013 Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World list by Corporate Knights, Toronto‐based media and investment research company. Clorox ranked No. 41 overall and was second among household and personal products companies. The Global 100,…

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A Win to Start the New Year

Last Tuesday was a big night for Clorox. At Corporate Secretary magazine’s 2012 Corporate Governance Awards in New York City, the company was named the winner of “most innovative CSR disclosure policy” for our work in corporate responsibility (CR) reporting. Specifically, we were recognized for our 2011 annual report, “Think…

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Enduring Value: Our FY12 Annual Report

There's a yellow hazard sign that someone posted near my door that reads "Caution: Annual Report Under Construction."  I don't have bumper stickers on my car, wear pins on my bags or (typically) post signs in my window, but after months of "building" our annual report, that sign felt very…

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