Who owns Spot Shot?
Spot Shot is owned by WD-40 Company (the United States, NASDAQ: WDFC).[1]
Evidence: WD-40 Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-10-27, SEC EDGAR, 27 October 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- WD-40 Company verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, San Diego, California
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1978
- Category
- Home care › Household cleaning › Surface & bathroom cleaners
- Parent ticker
- NASDAQ: WDFC
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About Spot Shot
Spot Shot is an instant carpet stain remover sold in an aerosol can, positioned for pet accidents and spills that need treating immediately. It is part of WD-40 Company's smaller homecare portfolio. That portfolio also includes Lava soap and X-14, brands the company acquired to use its existing retail relationships more fully.
What WD-40 Company's annual report says about Spot Shot
Sentences about Spot Shot from WD-40 Company's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
Spot Shot The Spot Shot brand is sold as an aerosol and a liquid trigger carpet stain and odor eliminator.
The brand includes Spot Shot Instant Carpet Stain & Odor Eliminator and the environmentally friendly product Spot Shot Pet Instant Carpet Stain & Odor Eliminator, which has a non-toxic and biodegradable formula.
How often WD-40 Company names Spot Shot 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 Spot Shot
- Current owner WD-40 Company [1] verified
Where Spot Shot sits in WD-40 Company
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by WD-40 Company
WD-40 Company controls 4 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in home care.
Also in home care
Other brands in surface & bathroom cleaners, and who owns them
The 34 brands in surface & bathroom cleaners on Brandtree belong to 21 owners. The largest is SC Johnson, with 4.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Method | SC Johnson | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Formula 409 | Clorox | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Flash | Grupo AlEn | 🇲🇽 Mexico |
| Ajax | Colgate-Palmolive | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Armor All | Energizer Holdings | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Nufăr | Farmec | 🇷🇴 Romania |
| Bon Ami | Faultless Brands | 🇺🇸 United States |
| El Kef | Lesieur Cristal | 🇲🇦 Morocco |
About the owner: WD-40 Company
WD-40 Company is a publicly listed company headquartered in San Diego, California, United States, founded in 1953. Brandtree records 4 brands under its control, and it is listed as NASDAQ: WDFC.
WD-40 Company was founded in San Diego in 1953 as the Rocket Chemical Company, and its single product succeeded on the fortieth attempt at a water displacing formula, which is where the name comes from. It was developed to prevent corrosion on Atlas missile skins before employees started taking cans home.
WD-40 Company: full profile, brands and acquisition history →
🇺🇸 Spot Shot 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; Spot Shot is not one of them.
- Air Wick — Reckitt 🇬🇧
- Ajax — Colgate-Palmolive 🇺🇸
- All-Clad — Groupe SEB 🇫🇷
- Amazon Basics — Amazon 🇺🇸
- American Girl — Mattel 🇺🇸
- Arm & Hammer — Church & Dwight 🇺🇸
Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of Spot Shot?
The parent company of Spot Shot is WD-40 Company, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is Spot Shot American?
Yes. Spot Shot originated in the United States in 1978 and its owner, WD-40 Company, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is Spot Shot still owned by WD-40 Company?
Yes. As of 10 October 2026, Spot Shot is still owned by WD-40 Company. 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] WD-40 Company Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-10-27 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 27 October 2025; retrieved 16 September 2026.
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