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Related Parties
12 Months Ended
Aug. 31, 2020
Related Parties [Abstract]  
Related Parties

Note 12. Related Parties

On October 11, 2011, the Company’s Board of Directors elected Mr. Gregory A. Sandfort as a director of WD-40 Company. Mr. Sandfort is the Chief Executive Officer of Tractor Supply Company (“Tractor Supply”), which is a WD-40 Company customer that acquires products from the Company in the ordinary course of business, until January 13, 2020 when he retired as Chief Executive Officer. Since Mr. Sandfort served as an executive officer of Tractor Supply during the Company’s first two quarters of fiscal year 2020, Tractor Supply is treated as a related party to the Company through January 13, 2020.

The consolidated financial statements include sales to Tractor Supply of $0.9 million and $1.9 million for fiscal years 2020 and 2019, respectively. Accounts receivable from Tractor Supply were not significant at both August 31, 2020 and August 31, 2019.