Water Pik, Inc. (also Waterpik) is an American oral health products company based in Fort Collins, Colorado. A subsidiary of Church & Dwight, it produces personal and oral health care products such as oral irrigators and pulsating shower heads. [1]
Waterpik began in 1962 as Aqua Tec Corporation. with the invention of the oral irrigator. [2] It was acquired by Teledyne Inc in 1967 and was spun off as a public company, Water Pik Technologies, in 1999. It was then bought by the private equity firm Carlyle Group in 2006 in a deal valued at $380 million. [2] [3] At this point Water Pik had six major facilities in the US and Canada. [4] Carlyle sold it the following year to EG Capital. [2]
In 2012, Waterpik was reported to have 1,400 employees. [3] In 2013 it was sold to MidOcean Partners and Vulcan Capital. [5] In 2017, MidOcean agreed to sell the company for $1 billion to Church & Dwight. At the time of the sale announcement, it was reported that the company had "$265 million of revenue in the fiscal year ended June 30, about 70% of which came from its water flosser products". [6]
