07.05.07
10. JohnsonDiversey
Sturtevant, WI
262.631.4001
www.johnsondiversey.com
Sales: $2.9 billion
Sales:
$2.9 billion. Net income: $118 million.
Key Personnel:
Curt Johnson, chairman; Ed Lonergan, president and CEO; Joe Smorada, executive vice president and chief financial officer; Scott Russell, senior vice president and general counsel; Jim Larson, senior vice president, global human resources; John Matthews, senior vice president of corporate affairs/director of the office of the president.
Chief Scientific Officer:
Steve Di Biase, senior vice president and chief scientific officer, research development and engineering department.
Major Products:
Cleaning and hygiene solutions and services that are used in commercial, institutional and industrial facilities. The company operates in six categories: food service, food processing, floor care, restroom/other housekeeping, laundry and industrial. Brands include: Complete, ShowPlace, SnapBack, Virex Crew, Soft Care, Endbac, Signature, J-Fill, TASKI, Suma, DuBois and Divermite. In addition, the company owns other well-known brands such as Butchers, U.S. Chemical, Drackett Professional, AutoChlor, Teepol and Prism.New Products:
Greenguard-certified Healthy High Performance Cleaning System (includes Johnson Wax Professional brands: Stride Citrus neutral cleaner, Alpha HP multi-surface cleaner, Crew bathroom cleaner and scale remover and Glance NA glass, mirror and multi-surface cleaner; and Butcher’s brands: Raindance neutral cleaner, G-Force H202 multi-surface cleaner, G-Force washroom cleaner and Look NA glass, mirror and multi-surface cleaner; tools, including the Pace microfiber floor-care system and MicroQuick microfiber cloths; and the Healthy High Performance Cleaning Guide, which provides users with the proper procedures. These products, procedures and tools, when used together following the methods outlined in JohnsonDiversey’s Healthy High Performance Cleaning Guide, make up the cleaning system that is Greenguard-certified.) and ElimineX program, which includes ElimineX foaming drain cleaner. The program helps food retailers identify, eliminate and control the threat of Listeria; DIFY (Does It For You), which includes two innovations, a soap sachet that works through 15 washes and the J-Watcher that lets users know when to replace the sachet; Oxivir Tb, an accelerated hydrogen peroxide cleaner and disinfectant that delivers broad-spectrum germicidal action without nonyphenol ethoxylates (NPEs) or volatile organic compounds (VOCs); MicroQuick microfiber cleaning cloths and Taski MicroEasy microfiber cleaning cloths; Taski swingo XP automatic scrubber-drier.Comments:
Sales fell less than 1% last year. The company said the slight decline was due to the decision to withdraw from a majority of the service-oriented laundry and ware washing business in the U.S. The company’s core business in North America continued to perform well, and outside of North America, JohnsonDiversey reported sales growth, primarily due to price increases in all business sectors and global geographic areas and the expansion of developing markets in Asia Pacific, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East.By region, sales in Europe (Western Europe, Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East) totaled $1.4 billion. North America was next with sales of $828.5 million, followed by Japan ($295.7 million), Latin America ($195.4 million) and Asia Pacific ($193.4 million).For the first quarter of 2007, sales rose more than 2% to $709 million. Excluding the impact of the decision to withdraw from most of service-oriented laundry and ware washing business in the U.S., sales rose 3.8%. Outside North America and Japan, JD recorded net sales growth in Europe, Latin America and Asia Pacific driven primarily by increased sales volume, selective price increases in certain business sectors and global geographic areas, and the continued expansion of developing markets in Asia Pacific, Latin America, Central and Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. JD’s gross profit percentage improved by 50 basis points for the first quarter of 2007 to 41.7%, due to stabilization of raw materials prices, in part reflecting early success the company’s Global Strategic Sourcing Initiative, and the impact of cost reduction programs.