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Pringles potato chips sold to Kellogg Company in June 2012 [20] Pur, brand of water filtration products. The brand was acquired from Recovery Engineering, Inc. in 1999 for approximately US$213 million. P&G sold Pur to Helen of Troy in January 2012 for an undisclosed amount. [21] Royale brand of toilet paper.
P&G was one of the first mainstream advertisers on Spanish-language TV during the mid-1980s. [82] [83] By the late 1990s, P&G was established as the largest advertiser on Spanish-language media. [84] In 2008, P&G expanded into music sponsorship when it joined Island Def Jam to create Tag Records, named after a body spray that P&G acquired from ...
An assortment of Lilly's throat lozenges from a 1906 sales book Josiah K. Lilly Sr. (1861–1948), the company's second president Eli Lilly and Company's corporate headquarters in Indianapolis, c. 1919 Men and women workers preparing drug capsules at Eli Lilly and Company in 1919 Amaryllis belladonna cultivation at Eli Lilly and Company in 1919 ...
Gillette is an American brand of safety razors and other personal care products including shaving supplies, owned by the multi-national corporation Procter & Gamble (P&G). ). Based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, it was owned by The Gillette Company, a supplier of products under various brands until that company merged into P&G i
Amway Corp. (short for "American Way") is an American multi-level marketing (MLM) company that sells health, beauty, and home care products. [2] [3] [4] The company was founded in 1959 by Jay Van Andel and Richard DeVos and is based in Ada, Michigan. [5]
While Buffett generally does not invest in tech stocks, he has said that Apple is a consumer products company and that he understands consumer products businesses. [ 151 ] In the third quarter of 2016, Berkshire surprised investors by making large equity investments in the major US airlines .
J.M. Smucker acquired gourmet preserves company Dickinson's in 1979, [14] and by 1980, J.M. Smucker was the number one jams and jellies company in the United States, [16] with over 25% of the market in the United States. [15] In 1981, Timothy Smucker was named president [15] and the company purchased Magic Shell the following year. [17]
In 1954, the company also began producing film slide projectors, a mainstay of its business for the next forty years. By 1956, the company was marketing the first fully automatic tray film slide projector known as the PA 1. [nb 1] [7] The 1950s also marked the beginning of the product that Braun is known for today: the electric shaver.