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Believed to be the first coupon ever, this ticket for a free glass of Coca-Cola was first distributed in 1888 to help promote the drink. By 1913, the company had redeemed 8.5 million tickets. [6] Coca-Cola's 1888-issued "free glass of" is the earliest documented coupon. [6] [7] Coupons were mailed to potential customers and placed in magazines ...
In the 1950s, Bristol-Myers saturated women's periodicals with a broad-based monthly ad placement campaign for Ipana. Magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens, True Stories, and McCall's were targeted to cover the broad range of women's interests; however, the campaign all but ignored men's magazines, and this weakened the brand by leaving the perception that Ipana was a product for women ...
Dental floss (waxed) Levi Spear Parmly (1790-1859), [4] a dentist from New Orleans, is credited with inventing the first form of dental floss. [5] In 1819, he recommended running a waxen silk thread "through the interstices of the teeth, between their necks and the arches of the gum, to dislodge that irritating matter which no brush can remove and which is the real source of disease."
Aim: a brand of toothpaste from Church and Dwight. Aim was introduced in 1973 by Unilever, and the brand was purchased by Church and Dwight in 2003. [2] In Australia, it is manufactured and distributed by Pental. [3] Aquafresh: available since 1973, it is manufactured by consumer healthcare product maker Haleon. [4]
8coupons was founded by Landy Ung and her boyfriend Wan Hsi Yuan in August 2007. [3] [7] [15] [16]The company was founded with $30,000 from Landy Ung's mother's fried chicken restaurant and initially relied on word of mouth to generate interest in the website. [17]
Promotional poster for the Kolynos toothpaste from the 1940s. Kolynos is a line of oral care products created by Newell Sill Jenkins in 1908 and acquired by Colgate-Palmolive in 1995. The name is a combination of two Greek words, meaning "beautifier" and "disease preventer". [1]
Crest is an American brand of toothpaste and other oral hygiene products made by American multinational Procter & Gamble (P&G) and sold worldwide. In many countries in Europe, such as Germany, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, Poland, Hungary, Latvia, Romania, Estonia and Lithuania, it is sold as Blend-A-Med, the name of an established German toothpaste acquired by P&G in 1987 ...
Colgate Dental Cream (toothpaste) with Gardol c. 1950s Colgate is an American brand principally used for oral hygiene products such as toothpastes , toothbrushes , mouthwashes and dental floss . Manufactured by Colgate-Palmolive , Colgate's oral hygiene products were first sold by the company in 1873, sixteen years after the death of the ...