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unusual facts about Joh. A. Benckiser


Caribou Coffee

In 2012, Caribou Coffee's announced its acquisition by the German company Joh. A. Benckiser for $340 million.


Damstraat, Haarlem

The new Haarlem court of Justice is also in this street, located in a modern building called the Appelaar, which is constructed on the spot where the Joh. Enschedé printing company resided for three centuries.

Florence Bjelke-Petersen

At the 1980 federal election, Joh Bjelke-Petersen arranged against the wishes of Party President Sir Robert Sparkes for his wife to be placed in the Number 1 position on the National Party's Queensland Senate ticket, ensuring her election.

Joan Michaël Fleischman

Joh. Enschedé anniversary publication, produced on the occasion of their 150th anniversary in 1893

Joh. Enschedé

Bavo (1939-56, Robert Harling), originally cast by Stephenson Blake as Chisel.

Knut Hartvig Johannson

He inherited the large wholesaler company Joh. Johannson, which was established in 1866, together with his brother Torbjørn.

Laurens Janszoon Coster

Behind the St. Bavochurch the printing factory of Joh. Enschedé was located, which from 1737-1940 printed the Oprechte Haerlemsche Courant and from 1810 onwards became a mint that printed banknotes and later postage stamps.

Matthew Carter

It was through his father, Harry Carter, also a type designer, that Matthew Carter was given an internship at the Joh. Enschedé type foundry in the Netherlands.

Saxon Siberia

Apart from a few otherwise very bleak places (such as Jöhstadt, Satzungen, Kuhnheyde, Neudorf, Joh. Georgenstadt, Wiesenthal etc.) where potatoes, cabbages, turnips and oats are grown (albeit the latter hardly ripens but is at least used to produce the necessary straw for cattle), not a single potato grows, let alone a kernel of corn.

Southport state by-election, 1987

The Nationals selected Mick Veivers, a rugby league identity and acknowledged Sir Joh supporter, while the Liberals selected Keith Thompson, a Gold Coast City alderman.

Telluric iron

Steenstrup’s findings were later confirmed by meteorite expert J. Lawrence Smith in 1879, and then by Joh Lorenzen in 1882.


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