{"id":1782637,"date":"2025-10-24T12:35:03","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T19:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thecloroxcompany.com\/?p=1782637"},"modified":"2025-10-24T14:13:37","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:13:37","slug":"stories-from-our-people-chris-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thecloroxcompany.com\/blog\/stories-from-our-people-chris-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Stories from our people: Burt&#8217;s Bees&#8217; Chris Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"840\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecloroxcompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/EVP-Chris-Hunt_TCC-Blog-H.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1782640\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:35px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Production supervisor Chris Hunt, who\u2019s been with Clorox for more than 10 years, works out of our manufacturing facility in Morrisville, North Carolina. \u201cWe make everything Burt\u2019s Bees \u2014 lip balms, lotions, tins, baby products, all of it,\u201d he says.<br><br>Starting as an hourly employee who was responsible for the day to day, he\u2019s worked his way up. \u201cClorox has stood behind me, giving me training and coaching. They\u2019ve given me a lot of opportunity.\u201d<br><br>There are always new challenges in the natural care business requiring a flexible approach. \u201cOur raw materials can be unique, and you have to adjust how you run things and see things differently every day.\u201d<br><br>That sort of adaptability has come in handy as Chris and his team have worked to upgrade manufacturing lines to boost production. To do this, he worked on the installation of one of the bigger lines we&#8217;ve ever brought in, which came from Germany. Because we couldn&#8217;t ship all of our raw materials there to test it, we had to test everything onsite.<br><br>\u201cWhen we found issues, we had to innovate and come up with solutions,\u201d says Chris. \u201cWe worked together as a team to get to the finish line the right way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-vertically-aligned-center is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:200px\"><div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1067\" height=\"1067\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecloroxcompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/TCC-Icons-Clean_Teamwork-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1782657\" style=\"width:78px;height:auto\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<h5 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\">\u201cWe worked together as a team to get to the finish line the right way.\u201d<\/h5>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:50px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1366\" height=\"86\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thecloroxcompany.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/The-Well-Weekly_Div-1.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1782341\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Production supervisor Chris Hunt, who\u2019s been with Clorox for more than 10 years, works out of our manufacturing facility in Morrisville, North Carolina. \u201cWe make everything Burt\u2019s Bees \u2014 lip balms, lotions, tins, baby products, all of it,\u201d he says. Starting as an hourly employee who was responsible for the day to day, he\u2019s worked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":1782639,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[748],"tags":[239,439,858,1258],"class_list":["post-1782637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people-and-culture","tag-burts-bees","tag-innovation","tag-manufacturing","tag-natural-personal-care"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecloroxcompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecloroxcompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecloroxcompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecloroxcompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecloroxcompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1782637"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecloroxcompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1782758,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecloroxcompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1782637\/revisions\/1782758"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecloroxcompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1782639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thecloroxcompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1782637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecloroxcompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1782637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thecloroxcompany.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1782637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}