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Church & Dwight Co., Inc. Announces Pricing of $250 Million of 3.35% Senior Notes Due 2015

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  Published in House and Home on Friday, December 10th 2010 at 12:15 GMT by Market Wire
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PRINCETON, N.J.--([ BUSINESS WIRE ])--On December 8, 2010, Church & Dwight Co., Inc. (NYSE: CHD), the manufacturer and marketer of a wide range of personal care, household and specialty products under the Arm & Hammer brand name and other well-known trademarks, announced the pricing of a registered public offering of $250.0 million aggregate principal amount of 3.35% Senior Notes due 2015 at a price to the public of 99.868% of their face value.

Church & Dwight estimates that the net proceeds from the offering will be approximately $247.6 million after deducting underwriting discounts and commissions and other fees and expenses related to the offering. Church & Dwight intends to use the net proceeds from the offering to complete the previously announced purchase of all $250.0 million principal amount of its existing 6% Senior Notes due 2012.

Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. are acting as joint-book running managers.

This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction. The offering is being made only by means of a prospectus and the related prospectus supplement included as part of an effective shelf registration statement previously filed with the Securities and the Exchange Commission.

Interested persons may obtain copies of the prospectus and the related final prospectus supplement by calling Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated at 1-800-294-1322 or Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. at 1-800-503-4611.

Church & Dwight Co., Inc. manufactures and markets a wide range of personal care, household and specialty products under the Arm & Hammer brand name and other well-known trademarks.

Statements in this press release that are not statements of historical or current fact constitute aforward-looking statements.a Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other unknown factors that could cause the actual results of Church & Dwight to be materially different from the historical results or from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In addition to statements that explicitly describe such risks and uncertainties, readers are urged to consider statements labeled with the terms abelieves,a abelief,a aexpects,a aintends,a aanticipatesa or aplansa to be uncertain and forward-looking. For a description of additional factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward looking statements, please see the Companya™s quarterly and annual reports filed with the SEC, including information in the Companya™s annual report on Form 10-K in Item 1A, aRisk Factors.a