07.02.23
Akron, OH
www.gojo.com
Sales: $625 million
Key Personnel: Carey Jaros, president and chief executive officer; Marcella Kanfer Rolnick, executive chair
Major Products: Purell Surface Sprays and Wipes, Hand Sanitizer and Hand Sanitizing Wipes; Purell brand Healthy Soap and Purell SmartLink Technology, Purell ES Dispensing System,
New Products: Purell Foodservice and Healthcare Surface Sanitizing Wipes Flowpacks, Purell Advanced Hand Sanitizer Gel Infused with Essential Oils
Comments: Gojo Industries helps the world experience greater health and wellness by leveraging its 77 years of experience to continually introduce improved ways to keep hands—and the surfaces they frequently touch—clean. It is that focus, paired with three generations of family leadership, which puts Gojo in Happi’s Top 50 list for 2023.
This company best known for Purell, perhaps the most well-known hand sanitizer in the world, is reportedly up for sale. According to reports, Gojo has retained JP Morgan Chase to help it find a buyer. Well known among consumers, the company’s expertise in I&I/professional hand hygiene can be seen through its ubiquitous hand sanitizer and soap dispensers installed in schools, healthcare spaces, hotels, entertainment venues shopping malls across the country.
Recently, Gojo launched its newest Sustainable Value goals, its third set of goals. Its sustainability journey began in 2006, when Gojo launched its first-to-market green hand cleaner. And since then, the company reached many sustainability milestones, including its first sustainability report and policy (2011); being awarded the US EPA Safer; Choice Partner of the Year for Purell Surface Spray; and getting hundreds of its Purell hand sanitizer and Purell healthy soap SKUs Cradle to Cradle certified.
The company’s newest Sustainable Value Goals are designed to transform its business to deliver the Gojo Purpose over the long haul and innovate for a better world. This phase of the company’s Sustainable Value strategy is focused on four priorities, which include clean chemistry; advancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging; a focus on plastics in its packaging and dispensing systems from incorporating recycled content and ensuring increased recyclability to exploring alternative materials and delivery models; and setting short- and long-term carbon reduction targets in alignment with the Science Based Targets Initiative’s Net-Zero Standard.
www.gojo.com
Sales: $625 million
Key Personnel: Carey Jaros, president and chief executive officer; Marcella Kanfer Rolnick, executive chair
Major Products: Purell Surface Sprays and Wipes, Hand Sanitizer and Hand Sanitizing Wipes; Purell brand Healthy Soap and Purell SmartLink Technology, Purell ES Dispensing System,
New Products: Purell Foodservice and Healthcare Surface Sanitizing Wipes Flowpacks, Purell Advanced Hand Sanitizer Gel Infused with Essential Oils
Comments: Gojo Industries helps the world experience greater health and wellness by leveraging its 77 years of experience to continually introduce improved ways to keep hands—and the surfaces they frequently touch—clean. It is that focus, paired with three generations of family leadership, which puts Gojo in Happi’s Top 50 list for 2023.
This company best known for Purell, perhaps the most well-known hand sanitizer in the world, is reportedly up for sale. According to reports, Gojo has retained JP Morgan Chase to help it find a buyer. Well known among consumers, the company’s expertise in I&I/professional hand hygiene can be seen through its ubiquitous hand sanitizer and soap dispensers installed in schools, healthcare spaces, hotels, entertainment venues shopping malls across the country.
Recently, Gojo launched its newest Sustainable Value goals, its third set of goals. Its sustainability journey began in 2006, when Gojo launched its first-to-market green hand cleaner. And since then, the company reached many sustainability milestones, including its first sustainability report and policy (2011); being awarded the US EPA Safer; Choice Partner of the Year for Purell Surface Spray; and getting hundreds of its Purell hand sanitizer and Purell healthy soap SKUs Cradle to Cradle certified.
The company’s newest Sustainable Value Goals are designed to transform its business to deliver the Gojo Purpose over the long haul and innovate for a better world. This phase of the company’s Sustainable Value strategy is focused on four priorities, which include clean chemistry; advancing diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging; a focus on plastics in its packaging and dispensing systems from incorporating recycled content and ensuring increased recyclability to exploring alternative materials and delivery models; and setting short- and long-term carbon reduction targets in alignment with the Science Based Targets Initiative’s Net-Zero Standard.