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On this episode of the Reboot Chronicles, Dean invited the head of Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) at The Clorox Company, Jackson Jeyanayagamto discuss consumer shifts and the future of consumer packaged goods (CPG). For over 100 years, this $7 billion dollar giant, with over 9,000 employees in over 200 markets, has been developing and acquiring market leading products that consumers rely on worldwide.
On this episode of the Reboot Chronicles, I invited the head of Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) at The Clorox Company, Jackson Jeyanayagam to discuss consumer shifts and the future of consumer packaged goods (CPG).
For over 100 years, this $7 billion dollar giant, with over 9,000 employees in over 200 markets, has been developing and acquiring market-leading products that consumers rely on worldwide. With a wide assortment of cleaning oriented brands, Clorox has experienced a massive increase in demand in response to the coronavirus. According to CNBC, Clorox reported their third fiscal quarter being a net income of $241 million with $1.89 earnings per share has increased from year prior of $187 million.
See Opportunity, Take It
No longer just considered the company your mom buys bleach from, Clorox has worked to revamp their image with new brands tapping into the DTC space. CPG companies have pursued DTC brands to fill market whitespaces, steal share and appeal to more consumers. Clorox acquired Burt’s Bees and Nutranext, and has been expanding their consumer facing brands, a move which also helped them segway into future investments. Jackson is continuing this growth by investing in future products, projects and companies, leveraging data tracking, creating customer brands relationships and loyalty experiences, getting new consumer insights, and creating more personalization experiences.
Dancing with Startups? Build-Buy-Borrow
As serial CEO, I have scaled companies unnaturally faster than the competition by addressing growth and innovation through a Build-Buy-Borrow lens that favors the speed and robustness of co-creation of new products, services, channels and ventures. Nowadays, it is becoming increasingly popular for larger companies, like Clorox, to simply acquire DTC companies to expand, and often that is still the smart move. Clorox on the other hand, as Jackson shares, is taking more of a hybrid approach ,not starting from scratch, but instead of investing in, white labeling, partnering or acquiring—and then assembling the right people to take over and finding what works at scale.
Opportunity Lies Ahead for Entrepreneurs and Startups
Although there will continue to be bumps in the road triggered by the pandemic, there are new opportunities for entrepreneurs and startups to blossom. With e-commerce and Shopify type platforms, there is a lot of whitespace out there to create new ventures and growth partnerships. Jackson’s experience has taught him the importance of treating your people well, not as a dollar sign—but as humans, while encouraging, supporting and motivating them. With motivated people and a solid path toward profitability you can be unstoppable.
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About The Reboot Chronicles Podcast
Hosted by Dean DeBiase, The Reboot Chronicles is a popular no-holds-barred podcast on iHeart Radio, iTunes, Spotify, Google Podcasts and YouTube that has been bringing together CEOs, entrepreneurs, authors, and global leaders, for over a decade, to discuss how organizations are rebooting their leadership-competitiveness of everything from growth, innovation, and technology to talent, culture, and governance. Tune in wherever you listen to podcasts or at https://www.revieve.com/rebootchronicles
Named a "Growth Guru" by Inc. Magazine, Dean DeBiase is a Faculty Member at Kellogg School of Management and Silicon Valley serial CEO, where he has served in chief executive and chairman roles of more than a dozen emerging growth companies, CEO of Fortune 500 subsidiaries, and a director on public, private, family-enterprise, CVC, PE and VC boards. He is a Technology Fellow at Northwestern University, a Board Leadership Fellow at The National Association of Corporate Directors, and an Advisor to the National Science Foundation. A Forbes Contributor and co-author of the best-selling book The Big Moo, Dean, is working on his next book, Dancing with Startups. Connect with Dean here: www.linkedin.com/in/FollowDean
