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Johann Adam Benckiser (30 December 1782 – 7 May 1851) was a German chemist who founded Joh. A. Benckiser GmbH, a major German chemicals business. Since 1999, the business has been part of Reckitt , a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index .
Schiff Nutrition International (NYSE: SHF) [1] was a company based in Salt Lake City, and is the manufacturer of dietary supplements such as Airborne, MegaRed, and Move Free. Founded by Joe Weider as Weider Nutrition (NYSE: WNI) in 1936, considered the first sports nutrition company.
Isaac Reckitt, by M.A.H. Willson. In 1818 Isaac Reckitt and his brother Thomas established a milling business in Boston, Lincolnshire with capital of £1,300 (equivalent to £120,000 in 2023), [2] building Maud Foster Mill (1819), and later expanding their business into cement manufacture (1823) and bone milling (1828).
JAB Holding Company S.à r.l. [4] (JAB or Joh. A. Benckiser) is a German conglomerate, headquartered in Luxembourg, that includes investments in companies operating in the areas of consumer goods, coffee, luxury fashion, animal health, and fast food, among others.
Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC, currently branded as Reckitt, formerly known as Reckitt Benckiser, is a British multinational consumer goods company headquartered in Slough, United Kingdom. [3] It is a producer of health, hygiene and nutrition products. [ 4 ]
The company's filter cartridge for table water received the National Award for Innovation for Upper Austria in 2011. [3] The same year, the Rondomat Duo S series of water softeners won the Austrian national design prize [4] in the Capital Goods category awarded by the Federal Ministry of the Economy Family and Youth (German: Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft, Familie und Jugend).
The design may have inspired later 'Maps of World History' such as the HistoMap by John B. Sparks, which chronicles four thousand years of world history in a graphic way similar to the enlarging and contracting nation streams presented on Adam's chart. Sparks added the innovation of using a logarithmic scale for the presentation of history.
Lambertus Johannes Hermanus "Bart" Becht (born 29 July 1956) is a Dutch businessman. [1] An executive with more than 35 years of business experience working with consumer brands, Becht is the former Chief Executive Officer of Reckitt, which he led from 1995 to 2011 and former Partner at JAB Holding Company, which he joined in 2012.