Word: lambert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 350 egg traders gathered on the floor of the New York Mercantile Exchange last week and listened to an announcement from President Courtney L. Poole. In angry tones he flayed a recent advertisement of Lambert (Listerine) Co. which was captioned: "Eggs! They tear you down socially." He called this a "vicious mispresentation" despite the fact that the advertisement assured its public that eggs are good for the system if not for the breath...
...Lambert Co., which has added toothbrushes, toothpaste, toothpowder & shaving compounds to Listerine, made $3,572,000 against...
Last month Gerard Barnes Lambert, retired lord of Listerine, was made president of Gillette Safety Razor Co. (TIME, May 11). Last week a Gillette stockholders meeting was called for June 10, at which time an interesting sporting proposition will be voted upon. The essence of the proposition is that President Lambert will receive a bonus rather than a salary. If Gillette earns less than $5 a share ($10,000,000) during any year, he will be paid nothing. If it earns $5, he will get 20,000 shares of stock. If the earnings exceed $6, he will be given another...
Gerard Barnes Lambert, son of the founder of Lambert Pharmacal Co. and its onetime president (1923-28), was made president of Gillette Safety Razor Co., succeeding Henry Jaques Gaisman who becomes chairman. Mr. Gaisman has apparently worked his way to dominance in Gillette since the merger with Auto Strop of which he was chairman, for John Edward Aldred, previously chairman and one of the premerger Gillette group, last week resigned. Mr. Lambert's election was a surprise, for since leaving Lambert Co. he has done nothing to indicate he cared to enter the business of razor-making. His interests have...
While studying Listerine last month, the Journal noted something new. In Printers' Ink, advertising men's weekly, John Lawrence Johnston, banker-president of Lambert Pharmacal Co., makers of Listerine, told how advertising had made his company successful. In 1920 the Lambert Company spent practically nothing for advertising. Its year's earnings were $115.000. Last year the concern spent approximately $5,000,000 for advertising. Its year's profit...