William Procter and James Gamble settle in the Queen City of the West, Cincinnati, and establish themselves in business — William as a candle maker and James as a soap maker. The two might never have met had they not married sisters, whose father convinced his new sons-in-law to become business partners. As a result, in 1837, a new company was born: Procter & Gamble.
1879
P&G launches its first branded product, Ivory Soap.
P&G becomes one of the first companies to advertise on commercial radio.
1961
P&G introduces Pampers, the first affordable, successful, disposable diaper.
175 Years of Innovation
Since our humble beginnings in 1837, P&G products have been touching and improving people’s everyday lives.
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P&G’s iconic brand Tampax has changed women’s everyday lives forever, providing an innovative and comfortable feminine care option.
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In 1837, William Procter and James Gamble signed a partnership agreement formalizing The Procter & Gamble Company, with combined total assets of $7,192.24.
Cellophane was invented by Swiss chemist
Jacques E. Brandenberger
while employed by Blanchisserie et Teinturerie de Thaon. Inspired by
seeing a wine spill on a restaurant's tablecloth, he decided to create a
cloth that could repel liquids rather than absorb them.
His first step
was a waterproof spray coating made of viscose. The coated fabric was
stiff, but the clear film easily separated from the backing cloth, and
he abandoned his original idea in favor of the new filmy material.
It took ten years for Brandenberger to
improve the film by adding glycerin
en the material. By 1912 he
had a machine to manufacture the film, which he had named Cellophane,
from the words cellulose and diaphane ("transparent"). Cellophane was
patented that year. The following year, Comptoir des Textiles
Artificiels (CTA) bought the Thaon firm's interest in Cellophane and
established Brandenberger in a new company, La Cellophane.
Whitman's candy
company first used cellophane in 1912
for wrapping
their "Whitman's Sampler."
DuPont built the first cellophane plant in
the U.S.
With 10 children, the Faktor parents could not afford formal education for their children, so at the age of eight Max was placed in an apprenticeship to a pharmacist.
Years of mixing potions for the pharmacy instilled in Max a fascination with cosmetics.
Eventually, Max Factor opened his own shop in a suburb of Moscow, selling hand-made rouges, creams, fragrances, and wigs.
In 1904, Max Factor and his family moved to the United States.
Factor dreamin
Max Faktor was now Max Factor, the name given to him at Ellis Island by immigration officials.
In 1914, Max Factor created a makeup specifically for movie-actors that, unlike theatrical makeup, would not crack or cake.
Soon movie stars were filing through Max Factor's makeup studio, eager to sample the "flexible greasepaint" while producers sought Factor's human hair wigs.
Max Factor introduced a line of cosmetics to the public in the 1920s.
, Art Fry, another 3M scientist, tires of losing his place in the hymnal. He dreams of a bookmark that's lightly adhesive. Then he remembers Silver's adhesive, and his dream begins to become real.
an astonishing 90 percent of consumers who try the product say they'll buy it! 3M managers decide to press on with the product ...
Post-it® Notes are launched across the US - with enormous success
It would take approximately 506,880,000 Post-it® Notes to circle the world.
Today there are more than 600 Post-it® Products, sold in more than 100 countries. Post-it® Notes are now available in eight standard sizes, 25 shapes and 62 colours.