Water Pik, Inc. (also Waterpik) is an American oral health products company based in

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. A subsidiary of

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, it produces personal and oral health care products such as

oral irrigator An oral irrigator (also called a dental water jet, water flosser or, by the brand name of the best-known such device, Waterpik) is a home dental care device which uses a stream of high-pressure pulsating water intended to remove dental plaque a ...

s and pulsating

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s. Until 2013, Water Pik Technologies, Inc. was a manufacturer of personal care products as well as swimming pool products, which it marketed under the Water Pik, Jandy and Air Energy brands. The pool products division, with the Jandy brand, was retained by the

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within the "Pool Care" division of

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, now Zodiac Pool Solutions.

History

Waterpik began in 1962 as Aqua Tec Corporation. with the invention of the oral irrigator. 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

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firm

and French company

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in 2006 in a deal valued at $380 million. At this point Water Pik had six major facilities in the US and Canada. In 2007, Water Pik's pool equipment division was merged by the Carlyle Group and Zodiac with its marine and pool division to form a new entity called

, headquartered in Paris, France. In 2012, Water Pik was reported to have 1,400 employees. In 2013,

(

) and EG Capital sold their stake in Water Pik (excluding the pool equipment division) to

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and Vulcan Capital. In 2017, MidOcean agreed to sell the company for $1 billion to

. 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".Vasquez, Justina
"Church & Dwight to Buy Water Pik for $1 Billion"
, ''Wall Street Journal'', July 17, 2017. Retrieved 2017-07-17.

References

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