The maker of Purell hand sanitizer is reportedly looking for a buyer.
According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, Akron-based GOJO Industries hired JPMorgan Chase to conduct an auction .
Goldie and Jerry Lippman started GOJO in 1946 as an effective way for Akron’s rubber factory workers to clean their hands.
“Jerry knew he needed help solving this important human problem,” the company’s website says. “So he visited the chemistry department at Kent State University in search of a chemist to help him develop a hand cleaner that would be effective against difficult soils and safe for skin. He found Professor Clarence Cook, and the two worked together to invent what became the first-ever one-step, rinse-off GOJO Hand Cleaner.”
