Toilet Duck

Toilet Duck is the product name of a toilet cleaner of the U.S. detergent manufacturer SC Johnson & Son The essential characteristic of the toilet duck is the curved neck, with the help of which users can apply the cleaning liquid easily under the rim of the toilet is.

History

Invented the Toilet Duck by the Swiss company Düring AG. The shape, the then Managing Director of Düring AG, the druggist Walter During, 1980 patent for a wooden prototype. Together with his wife Vera Düring he brought the product is then ready for production. The patent expired in 2000. In Switzerland, the market share was 40 %. The product is manufactured in 12 countries and sold in 100 countries. The product name Toilet Duck was this translated into the local language. The distribution for Germany took over until 2010, the Henkel Group, licensee to manufacture and distribute the product to the U.S. market under the name of Toilet Duck is the SC Johnson & Son From 1 January 2010, the SC Johnson & Son also took over the manufacturing and distribution for the German market and the Henkel Group bought the license for this. Revenue generated from the sale of toilet duck from SC Johnson in 2010 was in Germany 15 million Euros.

Tests

In a test of the Swiss consumer magazine K-Tipp, Edition 16 /2012, the WC - Ente reached due to insufficient decalcification, the test verdict " unsatisfactory".