Turtle Wax

Turtle Wax, Inc.

Type	Privately Held
Founded	1941 (as Plastone)
Headquarters	Addison, Illinois, United States
Key people	Mark E. Leopold (Chief Executive Officer and President) Tom Healy (Vice President of Global Sales & Marketing)
Number of employees	51-200
Website	TurtleWax.com

Turtle Wax is a manufacturer of automotive appearance products. The company was founded by Benjamin Hirsch in Chicago in 1941 and is currently headquartered in Addison, Illinois, having relocated from Willowbrook, Illinois in 2016.

Hirsch's main product, a liquid car wax, was initially called Plastone, until Hirsch changed the product name to create the association with a turtle's hard shell. Hirsch died in 1966 and successive generations of his family have remained involved with the company. Its advertising jingle ("Turtle Wax gives that hard shell finish"), created early in its history by the Doner Company, became very well known. The company sponsors OpTic Gaming, a international eSports organization; the team was founded in 2006.

Turtle Wax is the largest automotive appearance products company in the world and distributes its products in more than 90 countries.

The company's primary product lines include cleaning and polishing products for cars including glass, painted surfaces, uncoated metals, leather, wheels, and tires. As of 2017, Turtle Wax primarily serves the retail consumer market; the company sold its Professional Products arm focused on professional detailer and car wash customers to Cambridge, Ontario based Transchem Inc. in 2013. Turtle Wax has marketed its cleaning products for non-automotive applications, as well.

Turtle Wax also offers automotive performance chemicals such as engine treatment products and formula oils under the Marvel Mystery Oil and CD-2 brands. Additionally, the company operates full-service car wash facilities in the Chicago Metropolitan area.