Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (CHD) 23rd annual dbAccess Global Consumer Conference June 2, 2026 6:00 AM EDT
Company Participants
Richard Dierker – President, CEO & Director
Michael Read – Executive Vice President of International
Lee McChesney – CFO & Executive VP
Conference Call Participants
Stephen Robert Powers – Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division
Presentation
Stephen Robert Powers
Deutsche Bank AG, Research Division
Okay, everybody, welcome back. For the next session, I am thrilled to welcome back Church & Dwight to the conference.
With us today are President and Chief Executive Officer, Rick Dierker; Chief Financial Officer, Lee McChesney; and Executive Vice President of International, Michael Read. Together, Rick, Lee and Mike are going to run us through a presentation for about 30 minutes, and then we’ll have the balance of time, about 10 minutes of Q&A.
And with that, I will hand it over to Rick.
Richard Dierker
President, CEO & Director
All right. Thank you, Steve. Thrilled to be here. We spent about a week with our investors over in Europe and had a great business review yesterday. So before I begin, here’s our safe harbor statement. I encourage you to read that on our website as we will likely make forward-looking statements.
Who we are? We always start these presentations with our performance. And so our TSR, total shareholder return has been leading in the industry for a long time, took a bit of a step back as the whole industry did in 2025. But in 2026, we’re off to a great start. And a lot of that’s because of how we run the company.
And the evergreen model is really important for us. That’s kind of our anchor. We want to grow year after year after year, the top line and bottom line. And we’re especially proud that in 2026, even despite
