Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Addis Housewares was originally created in 1780 by William Addis I (1734-1808), a stationer and rag merchant, who produced the first modern toothbrush and went on to export high-quality English brushes. [3] William Addis II (1787-1873) grew the family business (Addis and Sons) and by 1840 had 60 staff working for the company. [5]
In 1930 a British-based Addis Housewares Company created the first artificial Christmas tree made from brush bristles. [7] The trees were made from the same animal-hair bristles used in toilet brushes, save they were dyed green.
William Addis (1734–1808) was an English entrepreneur believed to have produced the first mass-produced toothbrush in 1780. [1] [2] Addis was born in 1734 in England, most likely in Clerkenwell, [note 1] London. [3] In 1770, Addis was imprisoned in Newgate prison for causing a riot in Spitalfields. [4]
The Addis Company, a defunct New York department store which merged with Dey Brothers; Addis Housewares, a British household products company; Addis Fortune, a newspaper; Addis Standard, a news magazine
Dey's, a part of Allied Stores Co., was purchased by Campeau Corp. in 1986 and sold off in 1987 to May Company, the parent company of Dey's rival, Sibley's. The Addis Company and changed its name to Addis & Dey's. In 1991 the company was merged with Sage-Allen stores to become Sage-Dey. The downtown store closed in 1992. All stores closed in 1993.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us; Help; Learn to edit; Community portal; Recent changes; Upload file
Timeline of former nameplates merging into Macy's. Many United States department store chains and local department stores, some with long and proud histories, went out of business or lost their identities between 1986 and 2006 as the result of a complex series of corporate mergers and acquisitions that involved Federated Department Stores and The May Department Stores Company with many stores ...
Hardware stores (in a number of countries, "shops"), sometimes known as DIY stores, sell household hardware for home improvement including: fasteners, building materials, hand tools, power tools, keys, locks, hinges, chains, plumbing supplies, electrical supplies, cleaning products, housewares, tools, utensils, paint, and lawn and garden ...