Who owns Arm & Hammer?
Arm & Hammer is owned by Church & Dwight (the United States, NYSE: CHD).[1]
Evidence: Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-12, SEC EDGAR, 12 February 2026. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Church & Dwight Co., Inc. verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, Ewing, New Jersey
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1867
- Category
- Home care › Laundry › Laundry detergent
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: CHD
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Arm & Hammer
Arm & Hammer baking soda has been sold since 1867 and the brand became a household staple partly through decades of published recipes and uses, from baking to deodorising a refrigerator. Church & Dwight has extended the name across laundry detergent, cat litter, toothpaste and carpet care.
What Church & Dwight's annual report says about Arm & Hammer
Sentences about Arm & Hammer from Church & Dwight's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Finally we will continue to focus on core growth and have recently announced long-term targets to accelerate our core growth by (1) increasing Arm & Hammer from a $2 billion brand to a $3 billion brand, (2) driving global oral care expansion from $1 billion to $1.5 billion behind TheraBreath, and (3) investing in our international businesses with a focus on M&A to grow from $1 billion to $2 billion.
How often Church & Dwight names Arm & Hammer in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named more often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of Arm & Hammer
- Current owner Church & Dwight [1] verified
Where Arm & Hammer sits in Church & Dwight
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Church & Dwight
Church & Dwight controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in home care.
Also in home care
Other brands in laundry detergent, and who owns them
The 47 brands in laundry detergent on Brandtree belong to 25 owners. The largest is Alicorp, with 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bolívar | Alicorp | 🇵🇪 Peru |
| Dr. Wool | Jyothy Labs | 🇮🇳 India |
| Ciclón | La Fabril | 🇪🇨 Ecuador |
| Ariel | Procter & Gamble | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Savon Étoile | SCS | 🇨🇲 Cameroon |
| Magic | Sulfo Rwanda | 🇷🇼 Rwanda |
| LIQ | Aekyung | 🇰🇷 South Korea |
| Msafi | Bidco Africa | 🇰🇪 Kenya |
About the owner: Church & Dwight
Church & Dwight is a publicly listed company headquartered in Ewing, New Jersey, United States, founded in 1846. Brandtree records 9 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: CHD.
Church & Dwight was founded in 1846 to sell sodium bicarbonate and still leads with Arm & Hammer. Its strategy is buying mid-sized leading brands in categories the largest companies overlook.
Church & Dwight: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Arm & Hammer and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,549 brands that began in the United States. 478 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; Arm & Hammer is not one of them.
- 3-IN-ONE — WD-40 Company 🇺🇸
- Air Wick — Reckitt 🇬🇧
- Ajax — Colgate-Palmolive 🇺🇸
- All-Clad — Groupe SEB 🇫🇷
- Amazon Basics — Amazon 🇺🇸
- American Girl — Mattel 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Arm & Hammer?
The parent company of Arm & Hammer is Church & Dwight, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Arm & Hammer American?
Yes. Arm & Hammer originated in the United States in 1867 and its owner, Church & Dwight, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Arm & Hammer still owned by Church & Dwight?
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, Arm & Hammer is still owned by Church & Dwight. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2026-02-12 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 12 February 2026; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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