Waterpik is owned by Church & Dwight (the United States, NYSE: CHD), which acquired the brand on 7 August 2017 for $1 billion.[1][2] Waterpik was founded in 1962 in the United States and was independent until 2017.
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 .
Waterpik makes water flossers, invented in 1962 by a Colorado dentist and an engineer who built a device to clean between teeth with a pulsating jet. Church & Dwight acquired the business in 2017 for $1 billion, adding an oral care device line alongside its Arm & Hammer toothpaste.
Sentences about Waterpik from Church & Dwight's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
We believe that inflation drove a decline in consumer spending for our Waterpik brand, as a growing number of water flosser consumers switched to competitors' value-branded products.
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.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Church & Dwight controls 9 brands on Brandtree, 3 of them in personal care & beauty.
The 42 brands in toothpaste & toothbrushes on Brandtree belong to 23 owners. The largest is Colgate-Palmolive, with 5; Church & Dwight has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Colgate | Colgate-Palmolive | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Desensin | Dentaid | 🇪🇸 Spain |
| Close-Up | Unilever | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Parodontax | Haleon | 🇬🇧 United Kingdom |
| Bioniq | Dr. Wolff Group | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| CLINICA | Lion | 🇯🇵 Japan |
| Elgydium | Pierre Fabre | 🇫🇷 France |
| Crest | Procter & Gamble | 🇺🇸 United States |
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.
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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; Waterpik is not one of them.
Church & Dwight acquired Waterpik for about $1 billion, its largest acquisition. Waterpik had effectively created the water flosser, a device dentists recommend for people who cannot floss conventionally, and it gave the company a durable oral care business alongside its toothpaste.
The parent company of Waterpik is Church & Dwight, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Yes. Waterpik originated in the United States in 1962 and its owner, Church & Dwight, is also headquartered in the United States.
Church & Dwight completed its acquisition of Waterpik on 7 August 2017, after announcing the deal on 25 July 2017. The deal was valued at $1 billion (enterprise value).
Waterpik was an independent company from its founding in 1962 until Church & Dwight acquired it in 2017.
Yes. As of 11 October 2026, Waterpik is still owned by Church & Dwight. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
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