NAICS 3256Industry group · 4-digitnational market1 market record

Soap, cleaning compound and toilet preparation manufacturing

This industry group comprises establishments primarily engaged in manufacturing soap and other cleaning compounds and toilet preparations. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA
406
with employees
Under 10 employeesA
58%
most common size: 1–4
Establishments · USA
2,558
Employment · USA
111,101
43 per establishment
Payroll · USA
$7.5B
$67k per employee
01

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–415037%
5–98421%
10–197218%
20–495514%
50–99225%
100–199102%
200–49982%
500+51%

Of 406 Canadian establishments with employees, 58% have fewer than ten — mostly small operators.

Where they areA

Ontario14836%
Quebec13633%
British Columbia6616%
Alberta277%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA
Manufacturing, US · opened 2020
86.2%
1 year
70.8%
3 years
58.4%
5 years
45.3%
10 years
opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

02

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 325, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

national competitionhigh capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 325 Chemical manufacturing

Basic chemicals need plant-scale capital. Formulated products — cleaners, coatings, cosmetics — are reachable through contract manufacture, which moves the problem to distribution.

Who sets the price
Commodity markets for basic chemicals; brands and retailers for formulated goods.
The software it runs on
Process ERP, formulation, safety-data and regulatory compliance.
03

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

04

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

No vertical software market has been recorded along this branch. What the subsector typically runs on: Process ERP, formulation, safety-data and regulatory compliance.

Catalogued categories — named, not analysed

05

Companies in this industry · 9

Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.

CompanyFiled underRevenueRank
CloroxNYSE:CLXSoap, cleaning compound and toilet preparation manufacturing3256$7.1B1/9
Church & DwightNYSE:CHDSoap, cleaning compound and toilet preparation manufacturing3256$6.2B2/9
Contract manufacturers such as KIK Custom ProductsPrivateSoap, cleaning compound and toilet preparation manufacturing3256—3/9
HenkelPrivateSoap, cleaning compound and toilet preparation manufacturing3256—4/9
P&G (Procter & Gamble)NYSE:PGSoap, cleaning compound and toilet preparation manufacturing3256—5/9
ReckittPrivateSoap, cleaning compound and toilet preparation manufacturing3256—6/9
Retailer private labelPrivateSoap, cleaning compound and toilet preparation manufacturing3256—7/9
S.C. Johnson & SonPrivateSoap, cleaning compound and toilet preparation manufacturing3256—8/9
UnileverDelistedSoap, cleaning compound and toilet preparation manufacturing3256—9/9
06

Who works here

The occupations employed in Manufacturing, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

And the jobs every business has

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

All 162 occupations →

07

Inside this industry

2 rows sit directly beneath 3256, and 4 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.

CodeIndustryEstablishments · CAWhat is known
32561Soap and cleaning compound manufacturing240screened at 3256
32562Toilet preparation manufacturing166screened at 3256

Alongside it, under 325 Chemical manufacturing