Word: procters
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Soap Association is composed of powerful soap manufacturers who control about 80% of U. S. production, whose publicizing subsidiary, Cleanliness Institute, during the past three years contributed $3,000,000 for "information useful to the public," laboratory work and market study. Its executives represent such soap makers as Procter & Gamble. Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Armour & Co., Lever Bros. In no way is the Association a monopoly, for its members compete hotly for the business brought them by this method of collective advertising...
Birthday. James Norris Gamble, original partner of Procter & Gamble; in Cincinnati...
Dwellers in Cincinnati's Millcreek Valley district are well aware of the proximity of Proctor & Gamble Co.'s plant?particularly when the wind blows in their direction. Makers of long-famed Ivory and new-famed Camay soaps and of Crisco shortening, Procter & Gamble Co. is great Cincinnati industry, William Cooper Procter is great Cincinnati tycoon. Last week, however, Procter and Gamble showed a trace of Manhattan influence. To J. P. Morgan & Co. for $10,000,000 went 150,000 shares of P. & G. stock and an option on 100,000 more at $80. Assuming use of the option, the house...
Whether the sale was a movement toward including Procter & Gamble in Standard Brands, new Morgan food-products holding company (TIME, July 1 ), was debatable because of the small percentage of Morgan ownership. Yet soap, like yeast, is undeniably distributed in cakes...
...Morgan company purchased a large minority interest (400,000 to 500,000 shares) in 1926. Inspiration for working out the merger was provided by the unique Fleischmann daily delivery system. Constituents in the merged company were rumored as Postum, Gold Dust, Corn Products, Campbell Soup, Heinz, Royal Baking Powder, Procter & Gamble, and many another. The rumors met with emphatic denials from the companies mentioned; meanwhile Fleischmann and other food stocks climbed with a rapidity that showed considerable Wall Street faith in the merger story...