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Edgewell Personal Care
Owns Schick/Wilkinson Sword; razor handles and grips.
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Concentration2024
The razor aisle is essentially a duopoly — Gillette (P&G) and Schick (Edgewell) — and razor blades are deceptively hard to make: they require precision steel ground to a microscopically thin, coated edge, and that blade steel comes from a few specialist makers (such as Proterial, elsewhere in this radar). The razor-and-blades business model was literally invented here — sell the handle cheap, profit on the cartridges — and the cost and difficulty of making a genuinely good blade is part of what sustains both the duopoly and the cartridge lock-in. So a mundane shaving razor sits on a concentrated, precision-metallurgy supply chain and one of the most studied business models in capitalism. Edgewell is the perennial number two, and the blade in a Schick razor is a sliver of high-precision steel that most people never think about — yet it's hard enough to make well that only a couple of companies seriously compete, decade after decade.
Edgewell Personal Care ↗Did you know2024
Edgewell, spun out of the battery maker Energizer, is a portfolio of personal-care brands far beyond razors — Banana Boat and Hawaiian Tropic sunscreens, Playtex and Carefree feminine care, Wet Ones, and men's grooming lines. The sunscreen business carries its own supply-chain and regulatory exposure: UV-filter chemistry faces tightening regulation (some filters banned over coral-reef harm in Hawaii and elsewhere), and Banana Boat issued a recall after benzene contamination was found in some spray sunscreens. So a "razor company" is also a sunscreen maker navigating chemical regulation and contamination risk, and a feminine-care maker, all under one roof that began as a battery company's castoff. It's a reminder that consumer-personal-care conglomerates bundle very different supply chains and regulatory exposures behind a wall of familiar brands — the razor's precision-steel problem and the sunscreen's chemical-safety problem living in the same company, sharing nothing but a shelf in the bathroom.
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