 Formerly named DiverseyLever from 1996 to 2002, and JohnsonDiversey, Inc. from 2002 to 2010, Diversey was a brand of Sealed Air Corporation, under its Diversey Care Division, from 2011 until its acquisition by Bain Capital in September 2017.Diversey is a standalone company that includes the former Diversey Care division and the food hygiene solution business that was part of the Sealed Air Food Care division.Diversey Corporation was founded in Chicago in 1923 by August and Herbert Kochs as a division of their Victor Chemical Works cleaning products company.