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unusual facts about margarine


Bill Lobley

Bill Lobley (born in Bronxville, New York) is a comic actor known for his work in animation, commercials, and voiceovers for film, radio, and television; including the voice of the Parkay Margarine Tub in the late 90's, Adult Swim's Sealab 2021, and many best selling Video Games.


Bunge Limited

In 2009, Bunge acquired the margarine business from Raisio Group, maker of functional food ingredients.

Godley, Greater Manchester

In 1888, Otto Monsted established the Maypole Dairy margarine factory in a former hat factory on Mottram Road.

Haugh, East Ayrshire

The blue tilework bands on the building gave the name of the 'Blue Band' margarine type according to local tradition.

Leverhulme Trust

In the succeeding years, Lever Brothers became a cornerstone of Unilever, a major multinational company, created in 1930 by the merger of Lever Brothers with the Van den Bergh's margarine company of the Netherlands.

Margarine Unie

The Dutch company Naamloze Vennootschap Margarine Unie (English: Margarine Union Limited) grew in the 1920s through mergers of several margarine companies, among which Centra and Schicht and above all the companies of Antonius Johannes Jurgens and Samuel van den Bergh.

Meadow Lea

The Art Deco heritage listed residential home named Meadow Lea at 22 Sydney Road, East Lindfield, Sydney, was built on 4 housing plots and completed in about 1941 for James Armstrong, at the time the Sales Manager of the Meadow Lea Margarine Company.

Otto Monsted

He followed five years later with a factory in Godley, near Manchester, England, and in 1894 he built a vast margarine works in Southall, London.

Ride for Heart

The Ride for Heart is a charity bicycle ride organized by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario and sponsored by Becel brand margarine.

Samuel van den Bergh

Samuel van den Bergh (Oss 6 April 1864 – Nice 4 February 1941) was one of the main European margarine and soap manufacturers in the early 20th century.

Shortening

Originally, shortening was synonymous with lard, and with the invention of margarine by French chemist Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès in 1869, margarine also came to be included in the term.

West Thurrock

Industry along the Thames includes a Unilever chilled distribution centre for all its chilled food products including Flora, Bertolli, I Can't Believe It's Not Butter, Stork, Peperami and AdeZ.

Wilhelm Normann

From 1917, Normann built a fat hardening factory in Antwerp for the margarine company SAPA Societe anonyme des grasses, huiles et produits africaines, which operated in India.


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