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Lever Brothers was a British manufacturing company founded in 1885 by two brothers: William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), and James Darcy Lever (1854–1916). They invested in and successfully promoted a new soap-making process invented by chemist William Hough Watson.
In 1904, Lever Brothers launch Vim, one of the very first scouring powders. It is the first specially formulated product of its kind to be marketed in Britain. Originally, the principal abrasive ingredient of Vim is silica, which comes by rail and road from quarries in North Wales.
In 1888 the words "Made in England by Lever Brothers" embossed on Sunlight soaps started a new era of FMCG marketing. In 1931, Hindustan Unilever Limited was set up to continue the legacy in India.
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Unilever PLC is a British multinational fast-moving consumer goods company founded on 2 September 1929 following the merger of British soap maker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie. It is headquartered in London .
Soap stars - Lever Brothers. In the 1880s William Hesketh Lever, then a salesman for his father's wholesale grocery business, recognized the advantages of not only selling, but also manufacturing, soap.
In the year that the Lever Brothers become a limited company, sales of Sunlight soap have boomed to nearly 40,000 tons a year. As a result, the business starts expanding into Europe, America and the British colonies with factories, export businesses and plantations.
Unilever is one of the world’s most global companies based in the UK. From the opening of William Lever’s Sunlight Soap factory in Port Sunlight in 1888, to Unilever brands being available in +190 countries today, as Unilever has grown, so has our UK business.
Lever Brothers, predecessor company of Unilever ( q.v. ).
Lever Brothers was one of the major players in the welfare movement of the early twentieth century. Its internal communications embodied the idea of the firm as a family. Lever Brothers sought to create a relationship between the company and its employees that was intended to create a sense of unity, loyalty, and mutual benefit.
