Colgate-Palmolive (NYSE: CL) is a publicly listed company headquartered in New York, United States that owns 15 consumer brands across 3 categories, and has 4 recorded transactions.[1][2]
Colgate-Palmolive traces to a New York soap and candle business started in 1806 and took its present form in 1928. Oral care is its largest business, and its Hill's Pet Nutrition subsidiary is a major veterinary pet food maker.
Read from Colgate-Palmolive's latest annual filing[1]. Each line gives the sentence the filing uses, copied word for word.
The Oral, Personal and Home Care product segment is managed geographically in five reportable operating segments: North America, Latin America, Europe, Asia Pacific and Africa/Eurasia, all of which sell primarily to a variety of retailers, wholesalers, distributors, dentists and, in some geographies, skin health professionals.
The Company markets its products in over 200 countries and territories throughout the world in two product segments: Oral, Personal and Home Care; and Pet Nutrition.
On April 30, 2025, we acquired Care TopCo Pty Ltd, the owner of the Prime100 pet food business, for cash consideration of AU $471 (approximately $301).
The Prime100 acquisition contributed 0.3% to volume.
Headline figures from Colgate-Palmolive's annual reports filed with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, in USD as reported, fiscal years ending 2020–2025. Revenue moved from $16.5bn to $20.4bn, an average of 4.4% a year (calculated).
| Fiscal year ended | Revenue | Operating income | Operating margin | Net income | Total assets | Long-term debt | Filing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| $20.4bn | $3.31bn | 16.2% | $2.13bn | $16.3bn | $6.87bn | 10-K | |
| $20.1bn | $4.27bn | 21.2% | $2.89bn | $16bn | $7.29bn | 10-K | |
| $19.5bn | $3.98bn | 20.5% | $2.3bn | $16.4bn | $8.22bn | 10-K | |
| $18bn | $2.89bn | 16.1% | $1.78bn | $15.7bn | $8.74bn | 10-K | |
| $17.4bn | $3.33bn | 19.1% | $2.17bn | $15bn | $7.19bn | 10-K | |
| $16.5bn | $3.88bn | 23.6% | $2.69bn | $15.9bn | $7.33bn | 10-K |
Source: SEC XBRL company facts. A dash means the company did not report that line in a form we could read. Figures for a year can be restated in a later filing; the latest filing's number is shown.
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Colgate-Palmolive acquired the French skincare brand Filorga for about €1.69 billion, its largest acquisition. It was an attempt to move into higher-margin premium skin care, a category dominated by L'Oréal and Estée Lauder.
Colgate-Palmolive bought Sanex from Unilever for about EUR 672 million. Unilever was selling because competition authorities required it to divest Sanex before it could complete its purchase of Sara Lee's personal care business, so one company's remedy became another's acquisition.
Colgate-Palmolive bought 84 per cent of Tom's of Maine for about $100 million, leaving the founders with the rest. Tom's had been built on natural ingredients and a refusal to test on animals, and the sale to a mass-market giant was contentious among the customers it had attracted on exactly those grounds.
Colgate-Palmolive acquired GABA Holding, a Swiss oral care company selling elmex and meridol through European pharmacies. The purchase gave Colgate a pharmacy channel and a specialist reputation in Europe that its mass-market toothpaste could not reach on its own. The price was not disclosed.
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The documents behind the figures on this page, as listed in the SEC's EDGAR index. Each links to the filing itself.
| Filed | Form | What it declares |
|---|---|---|
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 8-K | Results of a shareholder vote | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition; Costs of exit or disposal activities | |
| 8-K | Departure or appointment of directors or officers | |
| 8-K | Other events | |
| 8-K | Departure or appointment of directors or officers | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition | |
| 8-K | Other events | |
| 10-Q | Quarterly report | |
| 8-K | Results of operations and financial condition; Costs of exit or disposal activities |
Colgate-Palmolive owns 15 consumer brands tracked here, including Colgate, Hill's Pet Nutrition, Palmolive, Ajax, Fabuloso and Suavitel.
Yes. Colgate-Palmolive is headquartered in New York, United States and was founded in 1806.
Colgate-Palmolive is a publicly listed company owned by its shareholders; it trades as CL on the NYSE.
The most recent completed acquisition recorded here is Filorga on 31 July 2019.
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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