In this paper we show that if S ∈ L(X, Y ) and R ∈ L(Y, X), X and Y complex Banach spaces, then the products RS and SR share the Dunford property (C). We also study property (C) for R, S, RS and SR ∈ L(X) in the case that R and S satisfies the operator equations RSR = R 2 and SRS = S 2 .