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14 unusual facts about Colgate


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ACB's first research project was ordered in 1929 by the Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company.

Albert Scanlon

Following his retirement from football, Scanlon's employments included a job as a security worker at a Colgate-Palmolive factory not far from Old Trafford.

Carmen Yulín Cruz

She has also worked as Human Resources Director for various companies like Colgate-Palmolive, Banco Popular, Cellular One (now AT&T), Scotiabank, and the United States Treasury Department.

Cherry Pie Picache

Cherry Pie Castro Picache (born May 27, 1970) is a Filipina actress and screenwriter who has starred television and films and has worked as a model for modelling Palmolive, Camay, and Eskinol.

Fed Cup

Sponsorship would later enable this number to expand dramatically, first by the Colgate Group in 1976, and, from 1981 to 1994 by the Japanese communications and computer giant NEC.

Frank Sartor

From 1976-1983 he was employed as a chemical engineer and in management roles by Colgate-Palmolive and oil company Total Australia Ltd.

Gauri Pradhan Tejwani

She has done commercials for many well known companies such as Sprite, Bru, Dabur, Ponds, Santoor, keo karpin, Colgate, Philips and Breeze.

Juan Mauricio Wurmser

His years as a corporate marketing executive include early assignments with the Guatemala subsidiaries of Warner Lambert, Avon, and Colgate-Palmolive, before joining British American Tobacco in 1978, a company that he served for 15 years in Guatemala, Panama, Spain, Mexico, and Argentina before returning to Guatemala as President and General Manager of its local subsidiary.

Orange Park, Florida

Mira Rio or River Watch in Spanish was the winter palazzo of Caleb Johnson, son of the founder of the Palmolive Soap Company, now the billion-dollar Colgate-Palmolive company.

Palmolive

Colgate-Palmolive, the company associated with Palmolive brand soap

Rajiv Dixit

He fought various MNCs like Manforce, Cargill, Coca-Cola, Du Pont, Hindustan Unilever, and Colgate as he considered that these companies are draining the wealth of India, making it poorer.

Tom Chappell

In 2006, a controlling 84% stake in Tom's of Maine was purchased by Colgate-Palmolive for $100 million.

Transesterification

It was patented in the US in the 1950s by Colgate, though Biolipid transesterification may have been discovered much earlier.

William Colgate

William Colgate (January 25, 1783 – March 25, 1857) was an English manufacturer who founded in 1806 what became the Colgate toothpaste company.


Bob Dyer

It was first sponsored by Colgate-Palmolive and later by BP, and was the first big quiz show on national television.

Buddy Powers

After finishing his professional hockey career in 1980, Powers joined the Colgate University coaching staff as an assistant coach under head coach Terry Slater.

Chase Carey

While attending Colgate he joined the Delta Upsilon Fraternity and was a member of the Colgate University Rugby Football Club.

Colgate Maroon-News

The Colgate Maroon-News is the student newspaper of Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.

Colgate Theatre

Colgate Theatre is a 30-minute dramatic television anthology series telecast on NBC during 1949 and 1958 for a total of 50 episodes in two different formats.

Cornell Club of New York

Membership in the Cornell Club is restricted to alumni, faculty, and students of the Ivy League institution Cornell University, as well as alumni of a short list of affiliated schools, such as Brown, Colgate, Duke, Georgetown, Notre Dame, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Stanford, Tulane, and Wake Forest.

Creighton Bluejays men's basketball

The team responded to the change by winning three straight games against Des Moines, Notre Dame, and Colgate.

Eduardo Arias

Investigations have also indicated that counterfeiters in China, sometime using branded labels such as Colgate and Sensodyne, have managed to penetrate markets in Canada, USA, India and Nigeria.

Ellery Huntington

Ellery Huntington, Jr. (1893–1987), American football player and coach, head football coach at Colgate University (1919–1921), College Football Hall of Fame inductee, son of the former

Ellery Huntington, Sr. (c. 1865 – 1945), American college athletics coach, administrator, and professor, head basketball coach at Colgate University (1900–1913)

F.W. Olin Hall

Other universities that have buildings as a result of the F.W. Olin Foundation are Johns Hopkins University, Colgate, Marquette, Tufts, and the University of San Diego, amongst many others.

Gautham K Sharma

He has done various advertisements for the brands like Colgate, Reynolds, Asian Paints and Bristol Cigarettes.

Gilbert Colgate

Gil Colgate was concerned about the population explosion and became one of the founders of Planned Parenthood.

Colgate, a 1922 Yale University graduate, and brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter); was also one of five children of Gilbert Colgate, Sr., who was the great-grandson of William Colgate, who founded what is now the Colgate-Palmolive Company.

James Boorman Colgate

James Boorman Colgate (March 4, 1818–February 7, 1904), son of William Colgate and Mary Gilbert, was an American financier.

Llewellyn Park

Other residents over the years included abolitionist James Miller McKim, whose charming house contained secret chambers to hide escaped slaves traversing the Underground Railroad, the Merck family (George W. Merck was raised there), and the Colgate family.

Murlan J. Murphy

Chief among the companies was Murphy-Phoenix Company, makers of Murphy Oil Soap, which was later sold to Colgate-Palmolive.

Raymond Han

The Honolulu Museum of Art, the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute (Utica, New York) and the Picker Art Gallery (Colgate College, Hamilton, New York) are among the public collections holding work by Raymond Han.

Sevogle River

The Sevogle River is noted for its Atlantic Salmon fishing, and one of the major salmon pools near the mouth of the river was leased and controlled for many years by the Colgate family of the United States.

Son of Dork

On 6 February 2007 Son of Dork toured with Wheatus, Army of Freshmen, and Bowling for Soup in The Get Happy '07 Tour. The tours were met with a favourable reception and the band performed a new song originally for the deluxe edition of their Welcome to Loserville album called "Colgate Smile".

Taruni Sachdev

Taruni acted in several television advertisements for products such as Rasna, Colgate, ICICI Bank, Reliance Mobile, LG, Coffee Bite, Gold Winner, Shakti Masala, Star Flush Dreams.

Terrence Des Pres

Peter Balakian, poet and Colgate professor, also organized the 1997 "Genocide and Memory conference.

Triennial Convention

William Colgate (January 25, 1783 – March 25, 1857) of New York City, founder and president of William Colgate & Company (org. 1806) and a major donor to the American Baptist Seminary of New York City, was grandfathered into the Triennial Convention.

William Colgate

Robert Colgate (1758–1826) was an 18th-century English farmer, politician and sympathiser with the American War of Independence and French Revolution, whose republican ideals impelled him to leave their farm in Shoreham, Kent in March 1798 and emigrate to Baltimore, Maryland, in the United States of America, after which the family settled on a farm in Harford County, Maryland.