Company: CLX
Filing Date: 2025-08-08
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0000021076-25-000039
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Company: CLOROX CO /DE/
Filing Date: 2025-08-08
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1A
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ITEM 1.A. RISK FACTORS

The risks and uncertainties set forth below, as well as other factors described elsewhere in this Report or in other filings by the Company with the SEC, could adversely affect the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations. Additional risks and uncertainties that are not currently known to the Company or that are not currently believed by the Company to be material may also harm the Company’s business, financial condition and results of operations.

Business and Industry Risks

Unfavorable and uncertain general economic and geopolitical conditions beyond the Company's control could negatively impact its financial results.

Unfavorable general economic factors that are beyond the Company's control have materially adversely affected, and could continue to materially adversely affect, its business, results of operations, financial condition and liquidity. These factors include, but are not limited to, inflation, tariffs, recession and economic slowdown, labor shortages, wage pressures, and supply chain disruptions, as well as housing markets, consumer credit availability, consumer debt levels, fuel and energy costs, interest rate fluctuations, tax rates and policy, unemployment trends, natural disasters, pandemics/epidemics, civil disturbances and terrorist activities, foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, conditions affecting the retail environment for the Company's products and other factors that influence consumer demand, spending and preferences that could impact the demand for the Company's products and negatively impact its net sales and results of operations.

In addition, geopolitical instability (including the conflicts in Ukraine and the Middle East, the potential for escalation in hostilities between the U.S. and Iran, and rising tensions between China and Taiwan); actual and potential shifts in U.S. and foreign trade, economic and other policies (including as a result of escalating trade tensions between the U.S. and its trading 

2 The Company's fiscal year 2025 RIR of 0.66 means that for every 100 full-time equivalent Clorox employees globally, the Company averaged less than one recordable incident during the past year. The criteria used to determine RIR follows the U.S. Department of Labor’s OSHA guidelines and is applied globally. The RIR does not include workers at offices with fewer than 10 employees, but it does include remote workers.

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partners, including China, particularly due to the imposition of tariffs by the U.S. and retaliatory tariffs by those partners); and other global events, have significantly increased global macroeconomic uncertainty and volatility. Sustained macroeconomic uncertainty and volatility and geopolitical instability could undermine global consumer confidence