Diversey is a leading brand of sustainable cleaning, sanitation and hygiene solutions.
Diversey brand products are helping create a new global leader in food safety, facility hygiene and product protection.
A history of business success
Diversey has a rich heritage of pioneering businesses in the commercial cleaning and hygiene sector. Its origins date back to 1886, when SC Johnson founded his parquet flooring business in Racine, Wisconsin. Later, in 1923, another of the group’s landmark businesses, Diversey Corporation, was founded in Chicago.
Both companies continued to grow and prosper throughout the twentieth century, serving customers around the world. In 1996, Unilever acquired Diversey Business Corporation to form DiverseyLever. Then, in 1997, the commercial and institutional division of SC Johnson & Son, Inc., Commercial Markets, separated from its parent company to form SC Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc., operating as Johnson Wax Professional.
In 2002, Johnson Wax Professional acquired Unilever’s DiverseyLever business, and the combined company became JohnsonDiversey until March 2010, when the name was simplified to Diversey.
In 2011, Diversey was acquired by Sealed Air Corporation, creating a new global leader in food safety and hygiene, product protection and facility hygiene.
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