5. His company sold the first toothpaste in a tube, Colgate Ribbon Dental Cream, in 1896. In 1928, Palmolive-Peet bought the Colgate Company to create the Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company. In 1953 "Peet" was dropped from the title, leaving only "Colgate-Palmolive Company", the current name. Today Colgate has numerous subsidiary organisations spanning 200 countries, but it is publicly listed in only two, the United States and India.
30. COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO Top Competitors Symbol Company's name Last Change % Change Volume CL COLGATE PALMOLIVE CO 78.01 -0.18 -0.23 584,643 CLX CLOROX CO DEL 62.27 -0.03 -0.05 274,795 PG PROCTER & GAMBLE CO 63.41 0.54 0.86 5.03 M CHD CHURCH & DWIGHT INC 67.05 0.01 0.01 152,756