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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-25-312870"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "CHD"
cik: "0000313927"
company_name: "CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/"
filed_at: "2025-12-09T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-16T13:52:03.469600+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.5
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Church & Dwight sells VitaFusion and L'il Critters brands to Piping Rock

## Summary
- Sale includes manufacturing facilities in Vancouver and Ridgefield, WA.
- Transaction expected to close before year-end, subject to customary conditions.
- VMS brands represent less than 5% of anticipated 2025 net sales.
- One-time after-tax charge of $40M-$45M in Q4 2025, including non-cash impairment.
- CEO states sale strengthens portfolio and allows focus on remaining power brands.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-25-312870
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: CHD
- cik: 0000313927
- company_name: CHURCH & DWIGHT CO INC /DE/
- filed_at: 2025-12-09T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.5
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.5
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 7.01, 8.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313927/000119312525312870/0001193125-25-312870-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/313927/000119312525312870/chd-20251209.htm

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