What was the revenue growth rate for WD-40 Multi-Use Product in fiscal year 2022 
icant and realistic opportunity to drive revenue growth well beyond the 2025 targets over the longer term.
Sara and I are absolutely committed to our 2025 revenue growth target, which is to drive net sales to between $650 million and $700 million by the end of fiscal year 2025. We will strive to do so while following our 55/30/25 aspirational business model. Looking beyond 2025, I believe there is a huge runway for long-term revenue growth for our company. As Garry alluded to earlier, we will be evolving our communications over the next couple of quarters to better share how we will achieve this growth in the future.
For now, I'd like to share with you my three strategic priorities for my tenure as CEO. They are: Firstly, to pivot the company toward a sustainable future. I consider the environment to be a key stakeholder in making decisions that create and protect long-term value must take that key stakeholder into consideration. Secondly, to further leverage our capability as a global learning and teaching organization.
I believe if we learn faster, we can grow faster. And thirdly, to realize a huge growth potential present in emerging markets. I believe the long-term global market growth opportunity for WD-40 Multi-Use Product is over $1 billion and that the fastest growth will be achieved in our emerging markets. I look forward to sharing more with you on these and other developing areas in the coming quarters.
In summary, what did you hear from us on this call? You heard that this will be Garry and Jay's last earnings call. You heard that Sara and I are committed to the 2025 revenue growth targets and the 55/30/25 business model. You heard that sales of WD-40 Multi-Use Product were up 8% in fiscal 2022. You heard that sales of WD-40 Specialist were up 19% in fiscal year 2022.
You heard that with the exception of digital commerce, all the Must-Win Battles are performing well and supporting our revenue growth objectives and that we expect digital commerce to return to solid growth next fiscal year. You heard that although we've been experiencing pressure on gross margins from the challenging inflationary environment, in the fourth quarter, we saw a strong margin recovery in the United States, and we've begun to see a recovery in EMEA's gross margin in the first month of fiscal year 2023. And you heard that I'm very focused on my strategic priorities as CEO and will be sharing more with investors in coming quarters. In closing, today, I'd like to share with you a quote from Jim Collins, "In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever." Thank you for joining our call today.
We'd now be pleased to take your questions.
Questions & Answers:
Operator
[Operator instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Linda Bolton-Weiser with Davidson. Your line is now open.
Linda Bolton-Weiser -- D.A. Davidson -- Analyst
Yes. Hello. Thank you. Well, farewell, Jay and Garry.
We'll miss you. And welcome to the new management team. We look forward to working with you. So, could I just ask you -- my first question is about your expectations around gross margin in the quarter.
I think that you have been saying that you expected gross margin to be up sequentially and yet it was down a little bit. So, what were the things that came out different in the quarter versus what you had been expecting to point to gross margin in the quarter being down?
Jay Rembolt -- Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Hi, Linda. This is Jay. Yes. You know, if you recall, we had price increases going in, in the third quarter in the U.S., in the Americas.
We also had them going in, in the fourth quarter in EMEA. What we found is those price increases took -- while they didn't generate a significant amount of resistance, we were able to -- it took us longer than we had anticipated. So, the delay of price increases -- the delay of the implementation of price increases was the primary driver. We've also had some disconnection with respect to our petroleum distillates, the various components we use, and their index is not ne
icant and realistic opportunity to drive revenue growth well beyond the 2025 targets over the longer term.
Sara and I are absolutely committed to our 2025 revenue growth target, which is to drive net sales to between $650 million and $700 million by the end of fiscal year 2025. We will strive to do so while following our 55/30/25 aspirational business model. Looking beyond 2025, I believe there is a huge runway for long-term revenue growth for our company. As Garry alluded to earlier, we will be evolving our communications over the next couple of quarters to better share how we will achieve this growth in the future.
For now, I'd like to share with you my three strategic priorities for my tenure as CEO. They are: Firstly, to pivot the company toward a sustainable future. I consider the environment to be a key stakeholder in making decisions that create and protect long-term value must take that key stakeholder into consideration. Secondly, to further leverage our capability as a global learning and teaching organization.
I believe if we learn faster, we can grow faster. And thirdly, to realize a huge growth potential present in emerging markets. I believe the long-term global market growth opportunity for WD-40 Multi-Use Product is over $1 billion and that the fastest growth will be achieved in our emerging markets. I look forward to sharing more with you on these and other developing areas in the coming quarters.
In summary, what did you hear from us on this call? You heard that this will be Garry and Jay's last earnings call. You heard that Sara and I are committed to the 2025 revenue growth targets and the 55/30/25 business model. You heard that sales of WD-40 Multi-Use Product were up 8% in fiscal 2022. You heard that sales of WD-40 Specialist were up 19% in fiscal year 2022.
 You heard that with the exception of digital commerce, all the Must-Win Battles are performing well and supporting our revenue growth objectives and that we expect digital commerce to return to solid growth next fiscal year. You heard that although we've been experiencing pressure on gross margins from the challenging inflationary environment, in the fourth quarter, we saw a strong margin recovery in the United States, and we've begun to see a recovery in EMEA's gross margin in the first month of fiscal year 2023. And you heard that I'm very focused on my strategic priorities as CEO and will be sharing more with investors in coming quarters. In closing, today, I'd like to share with you a quote from Jim Collins, "In a world of constant change, the fundamentals are more important than ever." Thank you for joining our call today.
We'd now be pleased to take your questions.
Questions & Answers:
Operator
[Operator instructions] Your first question comes from the line of Linda Bolton-Weiser with Davidson. Your line is now open.
Linda Bolton-Weiser -- D.A. Davidson -- Analyst
Yes. Hello. Thank you. Well, farewell, Jay and Garry.
We'll miss you. And welcome to the new management team. We look forward to working with you. So, could I just ask you -- my first question is about your expectations around gross margin in the quarter.
I think that you have been saying that you expected gross margin to be up sequentially and yet it was down a little bit. So, what were the things that came out different in the quarter versus what you had been expecting to point to gross margin in the quarter being down?
Jay Rembolt -- Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Hi, Linda. This is Jay. Yes. You know, if you recall, we had price increases going in, in the third quarter in the U.S., in the Americas.
We also had them going in, in the fourth quarter in EMEA. What we found is those price increases took -- while they didn't generate a significant amount of resistance, we were able to -- it took us longer than we had anticipated. So, the delay of price increases -- the delay of the implementation of price increases was the primary driver. We've also had some disconnection with respect to our petroleum distillates, the various components we use, and their index is not ne