The Dial Corporation, a subsidiary of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA (Henkel Consumer Goods Inc), is a manufacturer of personal-care and household-cleaning products based in Scottsdale, Arizona.
It began as a brand of deodorant soap manufactured by Armour and Company, a Chicago, Illinois, meatpacking firm, and through a series of mergers, acquisitions and divestitures, emerged by the 2000s as a stand-alone personal-care and household-cleaning products company. The company's namesake, Dial soap, remains one of its major brands. In 2004, the company was purchased by Henkel, a German consumer-products firm. The company's president, Stefan Sudhoff, took control in 2010 following the resignation of Brad Casper.
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