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17 unusual facts about Palmolive


Advertising Checking Bureau

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.

Beaver Country Day School

Jan Miner, stage actress who gained fame as Madge, the manicurist in Palmolive television ads

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.

Della Street

However, Gertrude Warner was the first actress to portray Street regularly, albeit on the radio series, followed by Joan Alexander and Palmolive's "Madge", Jan Miner.

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.

Jacqueline Meirelles

Also acted in campaigns and TV commercials to Bradesco, SunBlock, the defunct Banco Nacional, Ponto Frio, Itaú, IBM, Avon, Hotel Sofitel, Gelol, Brastemp, Jardim Sul shopping mall, Banco do Brasil, Rexona, Palmolive and others.

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.


Alwyn Uytingco

In 2011, Alwyn recently signed a new exclusive contract of TV5 via his very 1st TV5 show and 1st TV5 primetime drama series, Babaeng Hampaslupa with his co-stars Queen of Philippine movies Susan Roces, former Palmolive endorser Alice Dixson, former Senator & Basketball Star Freddie Webb Kapatid mainstay Alex Gonzaga, former Kapamilya & Kapuso Star Karel Marquez and former StarStruck Batch 3 Winner & former Kapuso Star Mart Escudero.

Bob Dyer

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

Emma Harrison

She started her television career with commercials, including Palmolive, and KFC.

Gilbert Colgate

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.

Murlan J. Murphy

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

Tom Tom Magazine

Drummers featured on the cover of Tom Tom Magazine include Cindy Blackman, Susie Ibarra,Kim Thompson (Beyoncé), Sheila E., Palmolive, Janet Weiss, Liv Marsico (Cold War Kids), Suphala, Evelyn Glennie, Yoshimi, Sara Lund (Unwound).

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.