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13 unusual facts about Lever Brothers


Aaron Sangala

Sangala worked for Lever Brothers (1974–1981), for the French Embassy teaching modern languages at the French Cultural Centre, and at St. Andrews High School teaching music.

Antonius Johannes Jurgens

Although initially in fierce competition with another manufacturer from Oss in the Netherlands, Samuel van den Bergh, both competitors joined up in 1927 to form the Margarine Unie, which would merge in 1930 with William Hulme Lever, 2nd Viscount Leverhulme of Lever Brothers to form Unilever.

Boston Medical Library

Countway, a purveyor of soap and high-school dropout, had become the president of the United States branch of Lever Brothers at the age of 42.

Christ Church, Port Sunlight

Port Sunlight was a model village built for the workers at the soap factory of Lever Brothers, founded by William Lever.

Edwin McClellan

McClellan was born in Kobe, Japan, in 1925 to a British father, an early representative of Lever Brothers in Japan, and a Japanese mother, Teruko Yokobori.

J. Edwin Ganong

In 1913, Edwin Ganong sold the St. Croix Soap Manufacturing Company to Lever Brothers of Toronto, Ontario, a subsidiary of the British conglomerate.

Joan Davis

Sponsored by Lever Brothers on behalf of Swan Soap, the premise had Davis running a tea shop in the little community of Smallville.

K. T. Chandy

He became a Director of Lever Brothers in 1956 and played an important role in the formation of Hindustan Lever Limited, which was later renamed as Hindustan Unilever.

Leverhulme Trust

On his death in 1925, Lord Leverhulme left a proportion of his interest in the company he had founded, Lever Brothers, in trust for specific beneficiaries: to include first certain trade charities and secondly the provision of "scholarships for the purposes of research and education".

Robert William Hudson

Hudson managed his father's company until it was taken over by Lever Brothers Ltd in 1908.

The New Loretta Young Show

Though it followed the popular The Andy Griffith Show on CBS, The New Loretta Young Show, sponsored by Lever Brothers, proved unable to sustain the needed audience in competition at 10 p.m.

Town and country planning in the United Kingdom

These concerns were expressed through the work of thinkers such as Ebenezer Howard and the philanthropic actions of industrialists such as the Lever Brothers and the Cadbury family, and architects such as Raymond Unwin, PRIBA, and Patrick Abercrombie.

Wilhelm Normann

When Lever Brothers produced a rival process Crosfield took them to court over patent infringement, which Crosfield lost.


Gwernymynydd

Little remains of its industrial history; the worked-out Cambrian limestone quarry was once owned by Lever Brothers of Port Sunlight, manufacturers of VIM, a scouring powder made from the silicone sandstone quarried here, which was ideal for the purpose.

Robert Edward Cruickshank

After leaving school, he worked as a travelling salesman, joining first Lipton, then the Lever Company.