Church & Dwight to Acquire Hand Sanitiser Brand Touchland for $700 Million

Church & Dwight, the personal care giant that owns drugstore mainstay brands like Viviscal, Batiste and Nair announced on Monday that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire hand sanitiser brand Touchland for $700 million. A further earn-out contingent on Touchland’s 2025 sales could take the total purchase price as high as $880 million.

The acquisition follows Church & Dwight’s purchase of acne sticker brand Hero Cosmetics for $630 million in 2022. Touchland’s net sales for the…