Company profile

Future of Colgate-Palmolive

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Rank
610
| Quantumrun Global 1000

The Colgate-Palmolive Company is a US global consumer products company, engaged in the manufacture, provision and distribution of Healthcare, personal, and household products, such as detergents, soaps, and oral hygiene products (including toothbrushes and toothpaste). Its corporate offices are on Park Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.

Home Country:
Sector:
Industry:
Household and Personal Products
Founded:
1806
Global employee count:
36700
Domestic employee count:
4943
Number of domestic locations:

Financial Health

Revenue:
$16034000000 USD
3y average revenue:
$16910333333 USD
Funds in reserve:
$970000000 USD
Revenue from country
0.24
Revenue from country
0.21
Revenue from country
0.15

Asset Performance

  1. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Oral, personal and homecare
    Product/Service revenue
    13800000000
  2. Product/Service/Dept. name
    Hill's pet nutrition
    Product/Service revenue
    2120000000

Innovation assets and Pipeline

Global brand rank:
412
Investment into R&D:
$274000000 USD
Total patents held:
3347
Number of patents field last year:
4

All company data collected from its 2016 annual report and other public sources. The accuracy of this data and the conclusions derived from them depend on this publicly accessible data. If a data point listed above is discovered to be inaccurate, Quantumrun will make the necessary corrections to this live page. 

DISRUPTION VULNERABILITY

Belonging to the household products sector means this company will be affected directly and indirectly by a number of disruptive opportunities and challenges over the coming decades. While described in detail within Quantumrun’s special reports, these disruptive trends can be summarized along the following broad points:

*First off, advances in nanotech and material sciences will result in a range of materials that are stronger, lighter, heat and impact resistant, shapeshifting, among other exotic properties. These new materials will enable significantly novel design and engineering possibilities that will impact the manufacture of future household products.

*Artificial intelligence systems will discover new thousands of new compounds faster than humans that can, compounds that can be applied to everything from creating new makeup to more effective kitchen cleaning soaps.

*The booming population and wealth of developing nations in Africa and Asia will represent the largest growth opportunities for household product sector companies.

*The shrinking cost and increasing functionality of advanced manufacturing robotics will lead to further automation of factory assembly lines, thereby improving manufacturing quality and costs.

*3D printing (additive manufacturing) will increasingly work in tandem with future automated manufacturing plants to drive down the costs of production even further by the early 2030s.

*As the manufacturing process of household goods becomes entirely automated, it will no longer be cost-effective to outsource the production of products overseas. All manufacturing will be done domestically, thereby cutting labor costs, shipping costs, and time to market.

COMPANY’S FUTURE PROSPECTS

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