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The company went on to co-sponsor Robert Montgomery Presents on NBC, and The Red Skelton Show on CBS. [14] In April 1939, the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed SC Johnson Administration Building opened. [15] Its addition, the Research Tower, opened in 1950. [16] The SC Johnson Headquarters was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1974. [17]
The company, previously known as Johnson Wax Associates, grew out of diversification and acquisition efforts by S. C. Johnson & Son during the 1970s. It became a profitable, self-sustaining outdoor equipment business known as Johnson Camping, Inc., later renamed Johnson Worldwide Associates (JWA).
Johnson's great-grandfather, Samuel Curtis Johnson Sr., founded the S.C. Johnson Company in 1886 as a parquet floor manufacturing business. The company, renamed S.C. Johnson & Son in 1906 when Johnson's grandfather, Herbert Fisk Johnson Sr., became a partner, began selling wax for hardwood floors in the early 20th century as an additional service.
In the UK, Kiwi polish was manufactured for many years at the company's British headquarters in Ealing. That facility manufactured for the UK market and exported the Kiwi brand to much of Europe and the Middle East. In the mid-1970s, as part of a major streamlining, the UK factory was closed, and production was switched to France.
SC Johnson, a chemical cleaning company, sells bottles made from 100% recycled plastic and also sells cleaning solution cartridges that allow bottles to be reused with one squirt and water added.
Ecover built the world's first "ecological factory" in Malle, Belgium, with a green roof extending over more than 6,000 m 2 (65,000 sq ft). The factory opened in 1992 and was featured on television news programs [19] that allowed the company to feature the recycled and recyclable materials that make up most of the structure.
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It is a worldwide brand owned by S. C. Johnson & Son, [2] also known as Gleid (among others). Brise was renamed Glade in Germany , France and the Netherlands in 2012. [ 3 ] [ 4 ]