Sales of the leading 10 toilet tissue brands of the U.S. 2017

This graph shows the sales of the leading 10 toilet tissue brands of the United States in 2017. Charmin Ultra Soft was the third ranked toilet tissue brand of the United States with about 1.09 billion U.S. dollars worth of sales in 2017.Toilet TissueIn 589 AD, the first documented account of the use of toilet paper was recorded in early medieval China. However, the product did not become commercialized in the United States until the 19th century when a man named Joseph Gayetty introduced Gayetty's Medicated Paper; a patent for roll-based dispensers was introduced a couple years later by Seth Wheeler. In the United States today, the toilet paper industry is dominated by three manufacturers: Georgia-Pacific, Procter & Gamble and Kimberly Clark, with the latter generating approximately 2.14 billion U.S. dollars worth of sales in 2016. These three manufacturers made up almost 80 percent of the U.S. toilet paper market.Procter & Gamble is one of the biggest consumer goods companies in the world. In 2016, the company generated net sales worth about 65.3 billion U.S. dollars and is the leading manufacturer in a vast majority of consumer goods product categories.

本图表展现了2017年美国领先10大卫生纸品牌的销售额。Charmin Ultra Soft位居美国卫生纸品牌第三位，2017年销售额约为10.9亿美元。卫生纸（Toilet Tissue）于公元589年，最早关于使用卫生纸的记载出现在中国早期中世纪。然而，该产品在美国的商业化生产直至19世纪，由名叫约瑟夫·盖蒂的男子推出了盖蒂药纸；几年后，塞思·惠勒引入了基于卷轴式分配器的专利。如今，美国卫生纸行业由三家制造商主导：乔治亚-太平洋、宝洁和金伯利-克拉克，其中金伯利-克拉克2016年的销售额约为21.4亿美元，占据了美国卫生纸市场近80%的份额。宝洁是全球最大的消费品公司之一。2016年，该公司净销售额约为653亿美元，并在绝大多数消费品产品类别中处于领先地位。