Baking Soda Differences Drive Domestic Market

From: Chemical Market Reporter | Date: April 27, 1998 | Copyright information

ACCORDING TO CHURCH & Dwight Co. Inc., the maker of Arm & Hammer sodium bicarbonate, per capita consumption of baking soda in the US is three times higher than in Japan and Europe. The company attributes the strength of the US market to greater product differentiation.

Two-thirds of the baking soda produced in the US is tailored to specific applications. Such differentiation includes purity, size of granules, and additives. "The grea...

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