Timelines

• Floris established in London by Juan Famenias Floris.

• Potter & Moore founded by John Potter and James Moore in Surrey, England.

• Dr. Hunter’s Dispensary opened by William Hunter in Newport, Rhode Island (Caswell-Massey).

• Chiris founded by Antoine Chiris in Grasse, France.

• A soap and perfumery business that will become Yardley established by Samuel Cleaver.

• Michel Adam opens ‘A La Reine des Fleurs’ boutique in Paris.

• Jean-F. Houbigant opens a perfume shop in Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris.

• A La Reine des Fleurs business passes to Michel Adam’s son.

• Pears Soap founded in England (traditional date).

• Pears moves to 55 Wells Street, Soho.

• Parfums Lubin founded by Pierre François Lubin in Paris.

• James Atkinson founds a business (traditional date).

1800s

• Abel Porter & Company (a button shop) established by Abel & Levi Porter and Henry, Silas & Samuel Grilley in the U.S. Will become the Scovill Manufacturing Company.

• A La Reine des Fleurs business inherited by Pierre-Guillaume Dissey.

• Roger & Gallet founded (France).
• William Colgate starts the Colgate Company making soap, candles and starch in New York.

• William Colgate partners with Francis Smith to form Smith & Colgate.

• Abel Porter & Company sold to Leavenworth, Hayden & Scovill.

• Smith & Colgate becomes William Colgate & Company.

• James Atkinson moves his business to 43 Gerrard Street, Soho.
• Dissey et Piver formed as a partnership between Pierre-Guillaume Dissey and Louis Toussaint Piver.

• Joseph Crosfield establishes a soap business in Bank Quay, Warrington, England.

• James Atkinson moves or expands his business to 44 Gerrard Street, Soho.
• Merck & Company established (Germany).

• William Yardley gains control of the Cleaver soap and perfumery business.

• James Atkinsons opens a retail outlet at 39 New Bond Street, London.
• House of Guerlain founded by Pierre-François-Pascal Guerlain at 42 Rue de Rivoli, Paris.

• Atkinsons moves to 39 Bond Street, London.

• Edouard Pinaud acquires the perfume shop ‘A la Corbeille Fleurie’ in Paris.

• Atkinsons renamed as J. & E. Atkinson after James Atkinson’s brother, Edward, is made a partner.

• J. & E. Atkinson move to 24 Old Bond Street, London.

• Hazard & Caswell renamed as Caswell & Hazard; branch opened in New York.

• House of Rimmel founded by Eugene Rimmel in London.

• Francis Pears becomes a partner in Pears which is now known as A. & F. Pears.

• A. H. Wirz Company founded by August Herman Wirz in Philadelphia, the first business in the U.S. to make collapsible tubes.

• Procter (English candle maker) & Gamble (Irish soap maker) open a factory in Cincinnati, Ohio.

• Guerlain moves to 15 Rue de la Paix, Paris.

• Charles Yardley takes on a partner to form Yardley & Statham.

• A. Rallet & Co. founded in Moscow by Alphonse Rallet.

• A. & F. Pears moves to 91 Great Russell Street, London.

• Ed. Pinaud acquires the title to the business of M. Besançon from his successor M. LeGrand ‘A la Corbeille Fleurie’.

• Boots, The Chemists founded by John Boot (U.K.).
• Chas. Pfizer & Company established by Charles Pfizer and Charles F. Erhart in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
• The T. T. Pond Company formed by Theron Pond, Alexander Hart, and Edmund Munson.
• John Tetlow purchases a soap business from a Philadelphian who went to the California gold rush.

• Scovill Manufacturing Company incorporates.

• W. J. Bush & Co. founded in London by William John Bush.

• Beecham Ltd. founded (U.K.).
• Le Bon Marché, the first modern department store established in Paris by Aristide Boucicaut.

• Hudnut’s Pharmacy established by Alexander Hudnut (Richard Hudnut’s father) in New York.
• Chauncey B. Woodworth acquires a perfumery business in Rochester.

• Chauncey B. Woodworth goes into partnership with Reuben A. Bunnell to form Woodworth & Bunnell.
• William R. Warner opens a drug store in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

• Registration of trademarks added to the registration of invention patents (France).
• William Colgate dies; William Colgate & Company becomes Colgate & Company.

• Robert Augustus Chesebrough goes into the coal-oil business.
• E. R. Squibb & Sons founded by Dr. Edward R. Squibb.

• House of Roger & Gallet founded by Armand Roger and Charles Gallet.

• Joseph-Albert Ponsin establishes a business in Paris to create make-up and perfumes for performers.

• B. J. Johnson Soap Company formed in Milwaukee (will later become Palmolive).
• Carlton & Smith advertising agency founded by William James Carlton (U.S.).

• Meyer Brothers Drug Co. established in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
• Woodworth & Bunnell renamed C. B. Woodworth & Son.

• Florence Manufacturing Company (Florence Compound) founded in Haydenville, Massachusetts.

• Parke-Davis founded in Detroit, Michigan by Hervey C. Parke and George S. Davis.

• Alexandre-Napoléon Bourjois purchases the cosmetic business of Joseph-Albert Ponsin.
• Dr. J. Parker Pray Company established in New York by the podiatrist Dr. Joseph Parker Pray.

• Dr. Charles Browne Fleet opens pharmacy in Lynchburg, Virginia.

• Aurelius Stone Hinds purchases a drug store in downtown Portland.
• Chesebrough installs machinery to manufacture Vaseline in his factory in Red Hook, Brooklyn.
• John H. Woodbury Company established by John H. Woodbury in Albany, New York.

• Ben Levy Company (Lablache) founded by Benjamin Levy in Boston, Massachusetts.

• Crown Perfumery Company established in London.
• Kimberly, Clark & Company founded in Neenah, Wisconsin, by John A. Kimberly, Charles B. Clark, Frank C. Shattuck and Havilah Babcock.
• Arinobu Fukuhara and his colleagues establishes the Shiseido Pharmacy in Tokyo, Japan.
• Peet Brothers Manufacturing Company founded in Kansas City by Jesse, William and Robert Peet to manufacture soap.

• Leichner founded by Ludwig Leichner to manufacture greasepaint.
• Samual Colgate & Company agrees to distribute Vaseline products.

• C. W. Briggs & Sons Company (Marcelle Toilet Preparations) founded.
• Chesebrough Manufacturing Company founded in New York.
• Lehn & Fink founded by Louis Lehn and Frederick Fink at 160 William Street, New York.

• A. S. Hinds Company founded by Aurelius Stone Hinds in Portland, Maine.

• Caswell & Hazard becomes Caswell-Massey after John Rose Caswell goes into partnership with William Massey.

• Carlton & Smith reacquired by James Walter Thompson.
• Chesebrough opens a London depot at 7 Snow Hill.
• A. & F. Pears moves to 71-75 New Oxford Street, London.

• Carlton & Smith renamed as the J. Walter Thompson Company.

• Mennen Company founded by Gerhard Mennen.

• Paul C. Beiersdorf opens pharmacy in Hamburg, Germany.
• Burroughs Wellcome & Company founded in London by American pharmacists Henry Wellcome and Silas Burroughs.
• Carter Medicine Company founded by Dr. John Samuel Carter in Erie, Pennsylvania.
• Chesebrough businesses amalgamate to form Chesebrough Manufacturing Company, Consolidated; London depot moves to 41 Holborn Viaduct.
• Franz Ströher-Rothenkirchen (later Wella) founded by German hairdresser Franz Ströher.
• Richard Hudnut begins selling perfumes from the New York pharmacy owned by this father, Alexander Hudnut.
• Lunsford Richardson acquires a retail drug business in Selma, North Carolina.
• Western Soap Company started by Andrew Jergens.

• Chesebrough Manufacturing Company becomes majority owned by Standard Oil; Chesebrough Building erected at 24 State Street, Battery Park, New York.
• Dr. Joseph Lawrence sells his formula for Listerine to Jordan Wheat Lambert.
• Jordan Wheat Lambert founds the Lambert Pharmacal Company.

• Andrew Jergens Soap Company founded by Andrew Jergens Sr. and Charles H. Geilfus.
• P. Beiersdorf & Company founded by pharmacist Paul C. Beiersdorf to manufacture gutta-percha medical plasters (Germany).
• Bronnleys, makers of fine soaps, founded (U.K.).

• Potter Drug & Chemical Company (Cuticura) formed from the Weeks & Potter Drug Company.

• A. J. Krank Manufacturing Company established by Alfred J. Krank in St Paul, Minnesota.
• J. A. Pozzoni Company formed.
• Lehn & Fink relocates to larger building at 128 William Street, New York.

• W. J. Bush & Co. relocates to larger premises at Ash Grove, Hackney.
• Frederick F. Ingram Company established by Frederick F. Ingram.
• Monsieur Guillaume Lenthéric opens first salon and laboratory at 245 Saint-Honoré, Paris.
• Lever & Company (Lever Brothers) founded by William and James Lever (U.K.).

• Albert Plaut becomes a partner in Lehn & Fink after the retirement of Louis Lehn.
• W. J. Bush & Co. absorbs Potter & Moore.
• California Perfume Company founded by David H. McConnell.
• Johnson & Johnson founded by Robert Wood Johnson, James Wood Johnson and Edward Mead Johnson.
• Pond’s Extract launches its first national advertising campaign in the U.S. using the services of the J. Walter Thompson Company.
• Potter Drug & Chemical Company (Cuticura) commence first international advertising.
• Recamier Manufacturing Company founded by Harriet Hubbard Ayer.
• William R. Warner gives up his drug store and establishes William R. Warner & Company.
• Eli Lilly & Company founded by Colonel Eli Lilly in Indianapolis, Indiana.

• Clinton Pharmaceutical Company acquired by William McLaren Bristol and John Ripley Myers (will later become Bristol-Myers).
• Johnson & Johnson incorporates.
• Kao Soap Co. Ltd. founded (Japan).
• Oxzyn Company founded (N.Y.C.).
• Recamier Manufacturing Company incorporates; introduces its skin creams into England.
• M. Stein Cosmetic Company founded to make theatrical creams and greasepaint (U.S.).

• Blondeau et Cie (Vinolia) founded by Dr. Eggleston Burrows and James Hill Hartridge (London).
• Dow (Midland) Chemical Company founded (U.S.).
• Martha M. Harper starts a business in Rochester N.Y. State.

• New Chesebrough Building erected at 13-19 State Street, Battery Park.
• Eugene Rimmel incorporates as a limited liability company.
• Potter Drug & Chemical Company (Cuticura) incorporates.
• Richard Hudnut Pharmacy Company established at 925 Broadway, New York.

• Académie Scientifique de Beauté founded by Dr. Alexandre Lamotte in Paris.
• P. Beiersdorf & Company sold to Oscar Troplowitz.
• Chambre Syndicale de la Parfumerie Française established by Aimé Guerlain and Charles Gallet.
• Alexandre-Napoléon Bourjois builds factory in Pantin.
• Daggett & Ramsdell established by Volney Chaplin Daggett and Clifford Ramsdell in New York.
• Erasmic Company established by Joseph Crosfield & Son.
• Kimberly & Clark Company incorporates.
• Lever & Company becomes a limited liability company, Lever Brothers Ltd.
• Lunsford Richardson buys a share in a larger drug store in Greensboro, North Carolina.
• Proctor & Gamble incorporates.
• Yardley becomes a Joint Stock Company.

• A. Bourjois & Cie formed by Alexander Bourjois and Emile Orosdi (France); Factory built in Pantin, Paris.
• Dr. J. Parker Pray Company incorporates in New Jersey.

• P. Beiersdorf & Company builds new factory in Eimsbüttel, Germany.
• Maurice Lévy founded by Felix Lévy.
• A & F. Pears incorporates as a limited liability company.
• Peet Brothers Manufacturing Company incorporates.
• Proctor & Gamble start national advertising campaigns in magazines.

• C. B. Woodworth Sons incorporates and takes over the business of C. B. Woodworth & Son.
• German Oil & Chemical Company founded by Francis W. Jones.
• Martha Matilda Harper founded.

• Andrew Jergens takes over the manufacture of Woodbury products.
• Californian Perfume Company opens its first laboratory in Suffern, New York.

• Académie Scientifique de Beauté opens a beauty salon at 376 Rue Saint Honoré, Paris.
• Beecham Ltd. opens an American subsidiary.
• Givaudan established in Zurich by Leon and Xavier Givaudan.
• Jeanette Scalé opens a salon in Chancery Lane, London using the name Mrs. Pomeroy.
• The Klytia Insitut Scientific de la Beauté established by Marie Valentin Le Brun in Paris.
• Lever Brothers established in the New York.

• J. & E. Atkinson Ltd. incorporates.
• Joseph Crosfield and Sons Ltd. incorporates.
• Crown Chemical Company established by Augustus F. Garriott and John M. Price in indianapolis, Indiana.
• Daggett and Ramsdell partnership dissolved; Clifford Ramsdell sells his share of the business to Henry M. O’Neil.
• Frances Forsythe opens a beauty business using the name Mrs. Frances Hemming in Mayfair, London.
• Hoffman-La Roche, Inc. founded (Switzerland).
• Mrs. Pomeroy Ltd. established. Moves to bigger premises at 29 Old Bond Street, London.
• Recamier Manufacturing Company goes into receivership; its assets acquired by Maria E. Rinn.

• W. J. Bush & Co. becomes a limited liability company.
• Cyclax founded by Frances Forsythe at 58 South Molton Street, London.
• Daggett & Ramsdell moves to 17 West 34th Street, New York.
• D. Weeks Company formed by Deyet Weeks in Iowa.
• Denney & Denney founded in Philadelphia.
• Monsanto Chemical Company established (U.S.).
• California Perfume Company establishes its own laboratory in Suffern, New York.

• Atkinsons opens a wholesale and export showrooms at 8 Wood Street, Cheapside, London.
• Blondeau & Cie acquires John Wilton & Sons (soap and candle makers); Vinolia Company Ltd. formed to take over the business of Blondeau et Cie.
• W. J. Bush & Co. Ltd. establish a branch in New York.
• Clinton Pharmaceutical Company renamed Bristol, Myers Company.
• Daggett & Ramsdell incorporates.
• Emile Orsosdi (A. Bourjois et Cie) enters into partnership with Ernest Wertheimer.
• Givaudan moves to Geneva; constructs a factory in Vernier.
• B. J. Johnson formed.
• Lehn & Fink acquired by Albert and Joseph Plaut.
• Lever Brothers begin manufacturing in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
• Rallet acquired by a group of French perfumers and reorganised as a stock company.
• E. Wertheimer et Cie founded by Ernest Wertheimer.

• Benjamin Brooke & Company acquired by Lever Brothers Ltd.
• Maison Icilma established in Avenue de l’Opéra, Paris by Stephen Armitage with a factory in Asnières-sur-Seine.
• National Toilet Company (Nadine) established in Paris, Tennessee.
• Vinolia Company Ltd. goes public.

1900s

• Eleanor Adair opens a salon at 90 New Bond Street, London.
• Bristol, Myers Company incorporates as the Bristol-Myers Company.
• Chas. Pfizer & Company incorporates.
• Elcaya established by James C. Crane in New York.

• American Safety Razor Company formed in Boston by King Camp Gillette.
• Andrew Jergens Company acquires rights and trademarks to manufacture and sell Woodbury toilet articles, including Woodbury soap.
• Crown Chemical Company incorporates.
• George Westmore opens a hair dressing salon in Newport (U.S.).
• Icilma business moves to London.
• Lehn & Fink moves to 120 William Street, New York.

• American Safety Razor Company renamed the Gillette Safety Razor Company.
• Daggett & Ramsdell open a laboratory at 211 West 32nd Street, New York.
• Eleanor Adair opens a salon at at 5 Rue Cambon, Paris.
• Helena Rubinstein opens her first salon at 138 Elizabeth Street, Melbourne, Australia.
• Joseph Lesquendieu acquires Bossard-Lemaire (France).
• The Van Dyke Chemical Company founded in New York by Samuel Isermann and L. A. Van Dyke to manufacture synthetic aromatic compounds.
• United Drug Company is established in New Jersey by Louis Kroh Liggett and a group of independent drug store owners.

• Eleanor Adair opens a salon at 52 West 35th Street, New York.
• Alfred Dunhill Ltd. founded in London by Alfred Dunhill.
• Bonetti Frères (Bonetti Brothers) established by the brothers Giovanni Battista Bonetti and Cornelio Bonetti (Paris).
• Rose Laird begins practicing at 20 West 31st Street, New York.

• Alfred H. Smith Company (importers of Djer-Kiss) incorporates (U.S.).
• Chesebrough moves manufacturing from Brooklyn to a larger plant in Perth, Amboy, New Jersey.
• Coty S.A. founded in Paris by François Joseph de Spoturno.
• A. S. Hinds builds new laboratory on the corner of Pine and Clark Streets, Portland.
• Helena Rubinstein moves her Melbourne salon to 243 Collins Street.
• Icilma Company Ltd. founded by Stephen Armitage in London.
• Marinello Company founded by Ruth D. Maurer in La Cross, Wisconsin.
• Mrs. Pomeroy offices and factory moved from 29 Old Bond Street to 33-34 Carnaby Street, Great Marlborough Street, London; and salons opened in Birmingham and Johannesburg.
• Schnefel Brothers (La Cross) established by A. Henkel and Maximilian Schnefel at 60 Arlington Street, Newark, New Jersey.

• Crown Chemical Company establishes Boncilla Laboratories.
• Daggett & Ramsdell opens a branch in the Waldorf-Astoria.
• Helena Rubinstein moves her Melbourne salon to 274 Collins Street where it is known as the Valaze Beauty Institute.
• Max Factor opens a barber shop at 1513 Biddle Street, St. Louis, Missouri.
• Pompeian Manufacturing Company incorporates.
• Richard Hudnut builds manufacturing facilities and offices at 115-117 East 29th Street, New York.
• Theodore Welcher and Lowell M. Palmer buy E. R. Squibb & Sons after the death of Dr. Edward R. Squibb.
• Vick Family Remedies Company established by Lunsford Richardson.

• Eleanor Adair moves her London salon to 92 New Bond Street.
• P. Beiersdorf & Company establishes its first overseas affiliate in London.
• Caswell-Massey close the Newport store.
• Helena Rubinstein opens a second salon at 158 Pitt Street, Sydney.
• Madame C. J. Walker establishes the Walker Manufacturing Company in Denver.
• Mrs. Pomeroy Ltd. goes into voluntary liquidation; assets sold to E. H. Girling who establishes a new Mrs. Pomeroy Ltd.
• Vinolia acquired by Lever Brothers.

• American Cyanamid founded by Frank Washburn.
• Daggett & Ramsdell stops retail trading.
• Elmo founded by Mary and Margaret McCann in Philadelphia.
• Helena Rubinstein opens a third salon at 9 Brandon Street, Wellington, New Zealand.
• Harriet Hubbard Ayer Company founded by Vincent Benjamin Thomas after he acquired the rights to her name.
• Icilma moves to Rosebery Avenue, London.
• Gordon Gordon Ltd. established in Chicago by Max Martin Gordon and Fannie Gordon.
• Vick Chemical Company formed by Lunsford Richardson.

• Chemische Exportgesellschaft Merz & Co. established by Friedrich Merz in Frankfurt, Germany.
• Coty opens a shop at 23 Place Vendôme, Paris; moves business centre to Suresnes-sur-Seine.
• Daggett & Ramsdell move to 314 West 14th Street, New York.
• Helena Rubinstein opens a salon at 24 Grafton Street, London.
• Rexona Pty. Ltd. founded by Alice and Samuel Sheffer in Sydney, Australia.
• William R. Warner Company acquired by Henry and Gustavus A. Pfeiffer & Company.
• Madame C. J. Walker opens the Lelia College in Pittsburgh.

• California Perfume Company moves its headquarters to New York.
• Charles Nessler opens a shop in London after leaving his barber-surgeon job in Switzerland.
• Florence Graham (Elizabeth Arden) and Elizabeth Hubbard open a salon at 509 Fifth Avenue, New York.
• Helena Rubinstein Ltd. established (Australia) which acquires Helena Rubinstein & Co.; opens a salon at 255 Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris.
• L’Institut Marie Earle established at 279 Rue Saint-Honoré, Paris.
• Max Factor opens a store on South Central Avenue, Los Angeles; and Max Factor & Company founded.
• Merz & Co. moves to a new location at 100 Eckenheimer Landstrasse, Frankfurt.
• Richard Hudnut Pharmacy Company incorporates.
• Société Française des Teintures Inoffensives pour Cheveux (L’Oréal) founded by Eugène Schueller.

• Atkinsons moves its wholesale, manufacturing and offices to the Eonia Works at Southwark Park Road, Bermondsey, London.
• Charles H. Ritz opens a hairdressing business in the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, New York.
• Chesebrough opens a Canadian plant in Montreal.
• Colgate moves to Jersey City, New Jersey.
• Coty opens London and Moscow subsidiaries.
• Florence Graham goes into business for herself at 509 Fifth Avenue, New York, under the name Elizabeth Arden.
• Lightfoot Schultz Company organised in New York by Charles Schultz.
• Marie Earle company established by M. Earle and N. Earle (Paris).
• Lehn & Fink becomes a company.
• Madame C. J. Walker establishes a factory, hair and manicure salon; opens another training school in Indianapolis.

• Chesebrough Manufacturing Company becomes independent after the breakup of Standard Oil.
• Joseph Crosfield and Sons Ltd, acquired by Brunner Mond & Co.
• Harold F. Ritchie & Company Ltd. founded by Harold F. Ritchie.
• Icilma moves to King’s Road, St. Pancras and establishes a factory.
• Lashbrow Laboratories started by Benjamin Ansehl (U.S.).
• L’Oréal established in Austria.
• Louis Philippe established by Louis Onesime Philippe in New York.
• Northam Warren Company founded by Northam Warren in New York.
• Roger & Gallet, New York established.
• Rose Laird Company established in New York.
• Seligman & Latz founded by Sidney Seligman and Edwin Latz in New York.
• Wildroot Company established in Buffalo.

• Antoni Cierplikowski (Antoine) opens a hairdressing salon at 5 Rue Cambon, Paris.
• Atkinsons remodels the building at 24 Old Bond Street, London.
• Calmon & Neate appointed sole agents for Lesquendieu products in the U.K.
• Coty opens an American branch at 714 Fifth Avenue, New York.
• Marie Earle opens a branch at 30 East 57th Street, New York.
• Melba Manufacturing Company incorporates.
• Richard Hudnut opens a branch office at 22 Rue Augustine, Paris.
• Rights to Chapstick sold to John Morton who establishes the Morton Manufacturing Corporation to market it.

• Andrew Jergens Company, Cincinnati incorporates.
• A. Bourjois & Co., Inc. (New York) founded at 25 Broad Street, New York.
• Erasmic establishes Erasmic et Cie to market its products in France.
• Harper Method founded by Martha Matilda Harper.
• Houbigant starts business in New York.
• Lady Esther founded by Syma Cohen in Chicago.
• L’Oréal established in the Netherlands.
• Mrs. Pomeroy Ltd. moves from Carnaby Street to 115 Waltham Road, Harwood Green.
• Paris Toilet Company founded in Paris, Tennessee by Will T. Warren Jr., W. T. Warren Sr. and Percy Aden.

• P. Beiersdorf & Company establishes an affiliate in Vienna, Austria.
• Elizabeth Arden opens a second salon in Washington, D.C.
• American department stores begin to stock Arden’s Venetian line.
• German Oil & Chemical Company incorporates as the Melba Manufacturing Company.
• Guerlain opens new premises at 68 Avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris.
• Helena Rubinstein begins wholesaling in the U.S.
• Lever Brothers acquires a substantial interest in A. & F. Pears. Takeover completed by 1920.
• Antonio Puig S.A founded by Antonio Puig Castelló (Spain).
• Richard Hudnut closed his pharmacy at 925 Broadway, New York.

• California Perfume Company, New Jersey incorporates.
• C. B. Woodworth Sons Company acquired by the State Securities Company and becomes the The C. B. Woodworth Sons Corporation.
• Charles Nessler leaves England and opened a shop on East 46th Street, New York; Nestle Company organised by Charles Nessler in New York.
• Doraldina Company founded by Dora Saunders (Doraldina) in Hollywood.
• Elcaya Company, New York incorporates.
• Elizabeth Arden moves her New York salon to 673 Fifth Avenue; and opens a laboratory at 665 Fifth Avenue, New York.
• Helena Rubinstein opens a New York salon at 15 East 49th Street.
• Louis Philippe incorporates.
• Northam Warren Company, New York incorporates; Northam Warren buys shares in Van Dyke & Co.
• Odorono builds an office and factory in Blair Avenue, Cincinnati.
• Pepsodent Company, New Mexico founded by Edward Springer & George E. Remley.
• Maybell Laboratories (Maybelline) founded by Tom Lyle Williams.
• V. Vivaudou Company, Inc. established by Victor Vivaudou and a group of investors in New York.

• Armand Company incorporates.
• A. Bourjois & Co. (New York) moves to 35 West 34th Street.
• B. J. Johnson Soap Company incorporates as the Palmolive Company.
• Dorothy Gray opens her first salon at 2 West 57th Street, New York.
• DuBarry Perfume Company established (U.K.).
• Helena Rubinstein Beauty Products Manufacturing Company established in New York; Salons opened in San Fransisco, Philadelphia and New Orleans.
• Lehn & Fink incorporates.
• Max Factor moves to 326 South Hill Street, Los Angeles.
• Northam Warren begins advertising using the J. Walter Thompson advertising agency.
• Peggy Sage company established by Peggy Sage in New York.
• Perfumeria Myrurgia Ltd. established in Barcelona, Spain.
• Potter Drug & Chemical Company (Cuticura) open laboratory in England.
• Richard Hudnut opens a perfume Shop opens at 400 Fifth Avenue, New York.
• V. Vivaudou acquired by the United Drug Company.
• William R. Warner & Co. acquires the Richard Hudnut Pharmacy Company and the J. A. Pozzoni Pharmacal Company.

• Andrew Jergens Company (Canada) Ltd. established.
• Daggett & Ramsdell moves to 214-216 West 14th Street, New York.
• Helena Rubinstein salon opened in Chicago.
• Madam C. J. Walker hosted the first national convention of her Walker ‘beauty culturists’ in Philadelphia.
• Noxzema Chemical Company founded by Dr. George A. Bunting in Baltimore, Maryland.
• William R. Warner & Co. moves to new quarters at 113-127 West 18th Street, New York.

• P. Beiersdorf & Company becomes a private limited liability company.
• D’Orsay Perfumeries Corporation, New York incorporates.
• Eugène Ltd established Eugène Sutter (Franve).
• Hannibal Pharmacal Company formed by Edwin Druin Frier in Hannibal, Missouri to manufacture Neet depilatory.
• Harriet Hubbard Ayer taken over by Lillian Sefton Thomas after the death of her husband.
• Helena Rubinstein moves her New York salon to 46 West 57th Street; salon opened in Atlantic City.
• Marie Earle opens a salon in New York.
• Morny begin to export cosmetics (U.K.).

• American Safety Razor Corporation formed from the merger of the Gem, Ever-Ready, and Star companies.
• Atkinsons establishes J. & E. Atkinson (France) Ltd. (P.C.); and opens a showroom at 2 Rue de la Paix, Paris.
• Charles Jundt buys the hairdressing salon at the Ritz-Carlton and starts what will become Charles of the Ritz.
• Joseph Crosfield and Sons Ltd. and Brunner Mond & Co. acquired by Lever Brothers.
• Elizabeth Arden opens salons in San Francisco and Palm Beach.
• Inecto, Inc. founded by Neal R. Andrews (U.S.) to sell Inecto hair dyes created by M. Gaston Bardou of Paris.
• International Icilma Trading Company Ltd. established to distribute Icilma products.
• Northam Warren establishes a subsidiary in Montreal, Canada.
• V. Vivaudou sold by the United Drug Company to a New York syndicate that included Victor Vivaudou.

• Atkinsons makes a public issue of shares most of which are acquired by Crosfield, a subsidiary of Lever Brothers.
• Aziza founded by Nina Sussman in Paris.
• Barbasol Company founded in Indianapolis, Indiana.
• Joseph Crosfield and Sons Ltd. acquires a substantial interest in J. & E. Atkinson Ltd.
• Delica Laboratories established by James Leslie Younghusband at 3933 Broadway, Chicago.
• Paul C. Beiersdorf changes its name to P. Beiersdorf & Company GmbH.
• Boots Pure Drug Co. Ltd. acquired by the United Drug Company.
• Cellucotton Products Company established by Kimberley-Clark.
• Elizabeth Arden opens a salon in Detroit; and Paris salon opened in Rue Saint-Honoré.
• Helena Rubinstein salon opened in Boston.
• Lehn & Fink build new manufacturing plant and laboratories in Bloomfield, New Jersey.
• Lever Bothers absorbs Pears Soap.
• Lowell Company (Primrose House) established in Lowell, Massachusetts by a group of investors; Primrose House salon opens in New York.
• Noxzema Chemical Company, Baltimore opens first factory.
• George W. Luft Company (Tangee) founded by George W. Luft in New York.
• Plough Chemical Company founded by Abe Plough in Memphis Tennessee.
• Pompeian appoints John Ellis & Coas its distribution agents in the United Kingdom.
• Recamier Manufacturing Company sold to Anna E. Reynolds.
• La Société des Savons Françias (Monsavon) founded on Rue Martre, Clichy (France).
• D. Weeks Company and the D. C. Leo Company purchased by Armand Company.
• William R. Warner & Company incorporates in Delaware.
• Yardley converted into a public limited liability company.

• Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. formed in New York.
• P. Beiersdorf & Company GmbH. establishes an affiliate in the U.S.
• Bourjois begins manufacturing in the Britain.
• Arden Chemical Company founded in New York; and Elizabeth Arden opens a salon in Old Bond Street, London.
• Helena Rubinstein moves the Paris salon to 126 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
• Max Braun establishes an equipment manufacturing workshop (Firma Max Braun) in Frankfurt, Germany.
• Maurice Lévy Company incorporates.
• Potter Drug & Chemical Company (Cuticura) opens a laboratory in Canada.
• Richard Hudnut store moves to 392 Fifth Avenue, New York.
• E. Wertheimer et Cie renamed E. Wertheimer & Fils.
• Yardley opens an American branch in New York.

• Atkinsons moves its wholesale showrooms from 8 Wood Street to 79 Queen Victoria Street, London.
• A. S. Hinds incorporates as a Delaware company.
• P. Beiersdorf & Company GmbH. becomes a public company and changes its name to P. Beiersdorf & Company A.G.
• Celma Company established in Toledo, Ohio.
• Coty, Inc. formed in New York; laboratories and assembling plant established at 423 West 55th Street, New York.
• Cyclax salon opened at 13 & 14 New Bond Street, London.
• Dorothy Gray establishes a laboratory and begins manufacturing cosmetics for wholesale.
• Edna Wallace Hopper Company established.
• Frostilla Company incorporates.
• Icilma bought by Lever Brothers; Icilma Company Ltd. wound up.
• Lady Esther incorporates; sales begin in Canada.
• Marie Earle, Inc. organised in New York.
• Zonite Products Corporation founded in New York.

• Alfred Dunhill Ltd. founded in London (replaced previous company).
• Bristol-Myers begin radio advertising (U.S.).
• Caron Corporation founded in New York; retail store opened on 5th Avenue; and a local factory established.
• Chesebrough opens a new American factory at McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania.
• Coty (England) Ltd. created.
• Crown Chemical Company changes its name to Boncilla Laboratories.
• Dorothy Gray moves to 116 East 59th Street, New York.
• Dubarry Perfumery Company Ltd. registered to acquire the businesses of DuBarry et Cie and the Standard Tablet Company Ltd. (U.K.).
• Dunhill International, Inc. founded in New York.
• Elizabeth Arden moves her Paris salon to 2 Rue de la Paix.
• Lady Esther moves from 441 West Division Street to 5710 Armitage Avenue, Chicago.
• Luzier Cosmetics, Inc. founded by Thomas L. Luzier in Kansas City.
• Maybell Laboratories renamed as Maybelline.
• Pacquin Perfumers incorporated in New York by L. Frantz, H. M. Lester and J. W. Lester.
• Princess Pat Ltd. founded by Max Martin Gordon and Fannie Gordon in Chicago.
• Stickel Company (Kurlash) founded at 380 Cottage Street, Rochester, New York.
• E. Wertheimer & Fils renamed as Wertheimer Frères.

• S.A. Française Alfred Dunhill (SAFAD) formed in Paris.
• Cédib (Université de Beauté) founded by Henriette Valentin-Font at 39 Avenue des Champs-Elysées, Paris.
• Coty opens London showrooms in Walmar House at 298 Regent Street.
• Elcaya acquired by H. C. MacBride.
• Fabergé et Cie begun by Alexander and Eugène Carl (Paris).
• Henry Tetlow incorporates as Henry Tetlow & Company.
• Johnson & Johnson opens its first overseas company in the U.K.
• Le Mur Company organised in Cleveland.
• Parfumerie Rigaud, Inc. established (U.S.).
• Parfums Corday established by Blanche Arvoy in Paris, France.
• Princess Pat moves to 2709 South Wells Street, Chicago.
• Société des Parfums Lucien Lelong established in Paris.
• Société Parisienne d'Essences Rares et de Parfums (Isabey) established at 20 Rue Jean-Goujon, Paris.
• V. Vivaudou acquired by Schulte Retail Stores.
• Yardley purchases the French perfumery Viville, which operates as Viville-Yardley until the 1930s.

• Elizabeth Arden Ltd. established in London.
• Coty, Inc. (U.S.) becomes a publicly traded company; Les Cultures Florales Méditerranéennes established.
• Lehn & Fink Products, Inc. created as a holding company; acquires Lehn & Fink, Inc. and the A. S. Hinds Company.
• L. Leichner (Berlin) open a London office at 27 Hartcourt Street, Marylebone.
• Marinello headquarters moves to 72 Fifth Avenue, New York and begins manufacturing operations in New York city.
• Parfumerie J. Lesquendieu S.A. and La Reine des Cremes S.A. established in France.
• Parfums Woodworth S.A. established at 44 Rue de Lisbonne, Paris.
• Princess Pat sold in Canada.
• Richard Hudnut opens a laboratory at Suresnes, Paris.
• Vick Chemical Company organised to acquire all of the assets of the old Vick Chemical Company to enable national distribution.
• V. Vivavidou acquires Alfred H. Smith Company, importers of Djer-Kiss.

• Académie Scientifique de Beauté acquired by pharmacist Georges Gay.
• American Home Products, Inc. established.
• Antoine de Paris opens a salon at Saks Fifth Avenue, New York.
• Atkinsons rebuilds the building at 24 Old Bond Street. London.
• Charles Jundt adopts the Charles of the Ritz brand name.
• Celma purchases Marie Barlow.
• Coty buys an interest in Marie Earle; acquires Société Française des Parfums Rallet.
• Elizabeth Arden opens a salon in Chicago.
• Helena Rubinstein American business incorporates; acquires Crystal Lee, Inc.
• I. G. Farbenindustrie founded (Germany).
• J. Lesquendieu Ltd. established in London, England.
• Lina Cavalieri opens a salon at 61 Avenue Victor Emanuel III, Paris.
• Mary Dunhill Ltd. founded in London; opens a salon at 39 Craven Road, Lancaster Gate.
• Marie Barlow opens new salon and product line at 358 Fifth Avenue, New York.
• Marie Earle New York salon moves to 659 Fifth Avenue.
• Martha Matilda Harper incorporates.
• Northam Warren Corporation acquires the Elcaya Company, Inc.
• Palmolive Company and the Peet Brothers Manufacturing Company merge to form the Palmolive-Peet Company.
• Primrose House reorganised under new management.
• Prince Matchabelli Perfumery Company founded by Prince Georges V. Matchabelli in New York.
• V. Vivavidou acquires the Melba Manufacturing Company (name changed to Parfumerie Melba).
• Vick Chemical Company incorporates.

• Atkinsons establishes J. & E. Atkinson Ltda SA in Buenos Aires, Argentina; and opens factories in Argentina and Montevideo.
• Eleanor Adair moves her London salon to 30 Old Bond Street.
• Bonnie Bell Company founded by Jesse Grover Bell in Cleveland, Ohio.
• Campana Company incorporated by Ernest Morgan Oswalt (U.S.).
• Cellucotton Products Company becomes the International Cellucotton Products Company after numerous name changes.
• Coty moves the London showrooms to 3 Stratford Place; Coty S.A.R. (Rumania) created.
• Cyclax salon opened in Liverpool.
• Delica Laboratories, Inc. renamed as Kissproof, Inc.
• Dorothy Gray acquired by Lehn & Fink Products Corporation; incorporates in New Jersey.
• Elizabeth Arden opens salons in Biarritz and Cannes.
• Erno Laszlo opens the Institute of Scientific Cosmetology in Budapest.
• Glyco Chemicals, Inc. founded.
• Helena Rubinstein opens new Paris salon at 52 Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
• Inecto, Inc. acquires the Marinello Company and the National School of Cosmeticians.
• Lenthéric acquired by E. R. & Sons.
• Lucien Lelong establishes an American branch in Chicago, Illinois.
• Luxor Ltd. appointed sole agents for Lucien Lelong of Paris.
• Marie Earle salon opens in Los Angeles, California.
• Maurice Lévy Company renamed as the Hygienol Company.
• Max Factor opens a branch office at 444 West Grand Avenue, Chicago.
• National Mineral Company (Helene Curtis) established by Gerald Gidwitz and Louis P. Stein.
• N. G. Payot et Y. Beaumevieille S.A.R.L. established in Paris.
• Paris Toilet Company becomes Golden Peacock, Inc.
• Pompeian Manufacturing Company acquired by Colgate & Company.
• Pond’s Extract opens its first foreign plant in Canada.
• Primrose House opens a branch at 127 Grant Avenue, San Francisco.
• Rallet Corporation of America organised by Coty.
• Richard Hudnut opens a new shop at 20 Rue de la Paix, Paris.
• William Waltke acquired by Procter and Gamble.
• Yardley headquarters and showrooms moved to 8 New Bond Street, London.

• Académie Scientifique de Beauté opens the first French beauty school at 376, Rue Saint Honoré, Paris.
• Barbara Gould Ltd. established by Woodworth at at 392 Fifth Avenue, New York.
• Charles of the Ritz incorporates; new laboratory opened at 9-11 University Place, New York
• Coty, Inc. acquires Marie Earle.
• Dorothy Gray salon opens in the new Dorothy Gray building.
• Elizabeth Arden opens salons in Madrid, Berlin and Rome.
• Harold F. Ritchie & Company acquires J. C. Eno Ltd.
• Helena Rubinstein New York salon moves to 8 East 57th Street; control of the American business sold to Lehman Brothers; Helena Rubinstein Beauty Products Manufacturing Company becomes H. J. T. Beauty Products Manufacturing Company; salons opened in Vienna and Toronto.
• Kimberly, Clark & Company becomes the Kimberly-Clark Corporation.
• L’Insitut Jeanne Piaubert established by Jeanne Piaubert (Paris).
• Lehn & Fink moves to the Dorothy Gray Building at 683 Fifth Avenue, New York.
• L. Leichner (London) Ltd. founded at 11-12 Pollen Street, London.
• Marie Earle salon opens in Southampton, Long Island.
• Max Factor Make-up Studio opened at 1666 North Highland Avenue, Hollywood; Max Factor Sales Corporation founded; and Max Factor agency established in London.
• Nestle Company and LeMur Company merge to form Nestle-LeMur.
• N. G. Payot salon opened at 12 Rue Richepanse, Paris.
• Northam Warren (Cutex, Elcaya) purchases the Odorono and Glazo companies.
• Palmolive-Peet and Colgate merge to form Colgate-Palmolive-Peet.
• Perfume Associates founded in New York.
• Primrose House moves to 49 West 45th Street, New York.
• Rose Laird Ltd. established in England.
• Sefton-Dodge Ltd. established at 150 Regent Street, London.
• Stickel Company renamed Kurlash Company.
• La Société des Savons Françias (Monsavon) acquired by Société Française des Teintures Inoffensives pour Cheveux (L’Oréal).
• Yardley opens an American factory in New Jersey.

• Atkinsons establishes SA de Perfumarias J. & E. Atkinson de Brazil; and opens factories in Chile and Brazil.
• A. Bourjois (New York) and Woodworth, Inc. merge into the International Perfume Company, Inc. Renamed Bourjois, Inc. (New York) later in the year.
• Bristol-Myers lists on the stock exchange; becomes a part of Drug, Inc.
• Coty, Inc. (U.S.) acquires Coty S.A. (France), Coty (England) Ltd., Coty S.A. I. (Italy), Coty S.A. R. (Romania), Coty S.A. B. (Brazil), Coty S.A. M. (Mexico), Les Cultures Florales Mediterranéennes and Société Française des Parfums Rallet.
• Daggett & Ramsdell acquired by the Standard Oil Company; products sold through the subsidiary, Stanco Distributors, Inc.
• Dorothy Gray begins radio advertising (U.S.).
• Edna Wallace Hopper acquires Kissproof; Hopper-Kissproof, Inc. formed.
• Frederick F. Ingram acquired by Bristol-Myers.
• Hannibal Pharmacal Company sold to a syndicate of New York bankers.
• Helena Rubinstein begins syndicated radio broadcasting; salon opened in Madrid.
• International Icilma Trading Company Ltd. renamed the Icilma Company Ltd.
• Kirkman & Sons merge with Colgate-Palmolive-Peet.
• Klytia Corporation formed (U.S.) to sell products of the Klytia Insitut de Beauté of Paris.
• Lesquendieu, Inc. (New York) acquired by Lehn & Fink Products Corporation.
• Lever Brothers and Dutch Margarine Union merge to form Unilever. Lever Brothers of America operated as a subsidiary.
• Lucien Lelong incorporates with Lucien Lelong as the largest shareholder.
• Marie Earle Paris salon moves to 15 Rue de la Paix.
• Max Factor & Company becomes a Delaware corporation..
• Neet, Inc. formed to acquire the assets of the Hannibal Pharmacal Company.
• Odorono offices moved to 191 Hudson Street, New York.
• Pacquin Perfumers N. Y. changes their name to Pacquin, Inc.
• Plough Chemical Company changed to Plough, Inc.
• Pola founded in Shizuoka, Japan by Shinobu Suzuki.
• Potter & Moore Ltd. established by W. J. Bush & Co. Ltd. (U.K.).
• Primrose House salon moves to 595 Fifth Avenue, New York.
• Princess Pat opens a factory in Toronto, Canada.
• Sales Affiliates, Inc. established to sell the products of Marinello and Inecto, Inc.

• Affiliated Products, Inc. established from a merger between Louis Philippe, Neet and Hopper-Kissproof.
• Andrevan, Inc. established by Neal R. Andrews and Ralph L. Evans, acquires the stock of Sales Affiliates, Inc., Inecto, Inc. and the Marinello Company.
• Alexandra de Markoff incorporates in the United States; establishes a salon in New York.
• J. & E. Atkinson (Australia) Ltd. founded and factory opened in Sydney,; Kent Brush Sales Corporation appointed American distributor and New York showrooms opened at 411 Fifth Avenue.
• Barbara Gould Ltd. (England) established; Paris salon opened.
• Charles of the Ritz opens salons in the Warwick Hotel, Philadephia and the Altman Building, New Jersey.
• Coty begins radio advertising (U.S.).
• Daggett & Ramsdell move to 2 Park Avenue, New York.
• Dorothy Gray opens its first European salon at 34 Avenue George V, Paris.
• Elizabeth Arden moves the New York salon to 691 Fifth Avenue; and opens new salon in Washington.
• J. S. Kirk acquired by Procter & Gamble.
• Koremlu, Inc. founded by Kora M. Lubin.
• Max Factor closes the South Hill store; International Division established.
• Northam Warren acquires Peggy Sage.
• Natone (Neutrogena) founded by Emanuel Stolaroff in Los Angeles.
• Pompeian Company sold to a consortium.
• Produits et Appareils de Beauté (P.A.B.) founded at 13 Rue de Rivoli, Paris.
• Rudemar Products Corporation established by Ruth D. Maurer and a group of backers.
• Sefton-Dodge Ltd. (U.K.) renamed Harriet Hubbard Ayer Ltd.; London base moved to 130 Regent Street.

• Affiliated Products acquires Curran Laboratories, Inc. (Jo-Cur).
• Almay Cosmetics founded by Alfred and Fanny May Woititz.
• Barbara Gould salons opened in London, Berlin, Prague, Rome, Vienna, Budapest and Milan.
• Beauty Counselors founded in Detroit.
• Clairol founded by Lawrence and Joan Gelb (U.S.).
• Clinique La Prairie founded in Montreux, Switzerland by Dr Paul Niehans.
• Harold F. Ritchie & Company and the Shoemaker family acquire Bowne & Scott Co. (Scotts Emulsion).
• Helena Rubinstein regains control of her American business.
• Lady Esther begins radio advertising.
• L’Oréal uses a ‘jingle’ in their radio advertising.
• Merle Norman started in Santa Monica, California by Merle Nethercutt Norman.
• Max Factor Sales Corporation becomes Sales Builder.
• Merle Norman started in Santa Monica, California by Merle Nethercutt
• Mum Manufacturing Company acquired by Bristol-Myers.
• Parfumerie Ed. Pinaud Paris incorporates as Pinaud S.A.R.L.
• Pond’s Extract opens its first foreign plant in Canada.
• Richard Hudnut opens a new shop and salon at 693 Fifth Avenue, New York.
• Schefel Brothers begin production of La Cross manicure equipment.
• Yardley retail showrooms moved to Yardley House at 33 Old Bond Street, London.

• Barbara Gould Ltd. merged with Bourjois, Inc.; Bourjois Sales Corporation and Barbara Gould Sales Corporation established.
• Coty Manufacturing Co. Ltd. established (U.K.).
• Dana Perfumes Corporation founded (Spain).
• Dorothy Gray installs her first salon on a Grace Line ship, the Santa Rosa.
• Douglas Collins & Company Ltd. established by Douglas Collins and Buzz Stevens.
• Gordon Gordon (London) Ltd. takes over the distribution Princess Pat in Britain.
• Helena Rubinstein opens a salon at Kohlmarkt 8, Vienna.
• Harriet Hubbard Ayer begins direct selling to retailers.
• International Laytex Company founded; later known as International Playtex, Inc.
• Koremlu, Inc. files for bankruptcy.
• Lady Esther Inc. renamed as Lady Esther Ltd.; Cosmetics, Inc. founded.
• Mary Chess founded by Grace Mary Chess Robinson in New York.
• Marie Earle New York salon moves to 714 Fifth Avenue.
• Parfums Corday, Inc. established in New York by Benson Storfer after he acquired the assets of the bankrupt Lionel Trading Company.
• Pond’s Extract opens first overseas factory in Perivale, London.
• Revlon Nail Enamel Company founded by Charles Revson, Joseph Revson and Charles R. Lachman in New York.

• Eleanor Adair moves her London salon to 149 New Bond Street.
• P. Beiersdorf & Company A.G. establishes its first South American affiliate in Argentina.
• Bristol-Myers becomes a separate corporation after Drug, Inc is dissolved.
• Charles of the Ritz (Canada) Ltd. established.
• Daggett & Ramsdell opens a demonstration salon at 62 East Monroe Street, Chicago.
• Doraldina establishes a New York office at 230 Fifth Avenue.
• Dorothy Gray opens salons on the ‘Santa Rosa’ ship of the Grace Line.
• Elizabeth Arden moves Philadelphia and Los Angeles salons; and begins ‘Way to Beauty’ Radio program.
• Lightfoot Schultz Company sold to the American Safety Razor Corporation.
• Mineralava Laboratories, Inc. formed at 20 West 22nd Street, New York to take over the Mineralava trademark.
• Mary Chess opens a store at 334 Park Avenue, New York.
• Max Factor Manufacturing Corporation established in California; and Max Factor opens a third manufacturing plant.
• N. G. Payot et Y. Beaumevieille S.A.R.L. becomes Laboratoire du Docteur N.-G. Payot S.A.
• Northam Warren begins radio advertising.
• Revlon Nail Enamel Company incorporates.
• Rudemar Products Corporation goes into liquidation.
• Tre-Jur becomes the agent for Les Parfumeries de Gabilla of Paris in the U.S.
• United Drug Company sells Boots to British investors including John Boot.
• Vita-Ray Corporation founded in Lowell, Massachusetts by the Ayer Company.
• Yardley New York sales office and showrooms moved to the Rockefeller Center; London headquarters moved to Sackville house, Piccadilly.

• Antoine Chiris and Pierre Dhumez & Co. amalgamate (France).
• Atkinsons establishes Proprietary Perfumes Ltd.; larger factory built in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
• Elizabeth Arden G.m.b.H. established in Berlin; Elizabeth Arden S.A.I. established in Rome; and Maine Chance spa/health farm opened.
• Helena Rubinstein opens a salon in Seattle.
• Lady Esther establishes Packaging, Inc.
• Lalique severs ties with Coty.
• Mary Dunhill, Inc. established at 11 East 26th Street, New York.
• Peggy Sage establishes a salon at 130 New Bond Street, London.
• Shulton, Inc. founded by William Lightfoot Shultz in New York.

• Ar-Ex Cosmetics founded by chemist Julius Kahn.
• Atkinsons combines its offices, warehouse and factories at the Eonia Works, Southwark Park Road, London.
• Cyclax (Australia) Ltd. established in Melbourne, Australia.
• Daggett & Ramsdell open a second demonstration salon at 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York.
• Elizabeth Arden (South America) Inc. established; and DeLong Laboratories Ltd. acquired.
• House of Westmore, Inc. (California) established in Los Angeles by Ern, Perc, Mont and Wally Westmore; Westmore Salon of Beauty opens in Hollywood.
• Lancôme founded by Armand Petitjean and Guillaume d’Ornano.
• Max Factor opens the renovated Max Factor Make-up Studio in North Highland Avenue, Hollywood.
• Guerlain replaces the Rue de la Paix shop with one at Place Vendôme.
• M. Stein Cosmetic Company acquired by Anstin Alexander and Leon Kutzer.
• N. G. Payot moves to 10 Rue de Castiglione, Paris.
• Northam Warren Sales Company established.
• Parfumerie J. Lesquendieu S.A. incorporates.
• Pompeian moves from Emira, New York to Bloomfield, New Jersey.
• Wasey Products, Inc. founded by Louis R. Wasey in New York.

• American Home Products acquires Affiliated Products.
• Caswell-Massey bought by Milton and Ralph Taylor.
• Charles of the Ritz sold to Benjamin E. Levy and Richard B. Salomon.
• Coty Manufacturing Co. Ltd. amalgamates with Coty (England) Ltd.
• Cyclax of London, Inc. established in New York.
• Douglas R. Collins Ltd. (Goya) founded by Douglas Collins (U.K.).
• Elizabeth Arden Ltd. established in London; and a second Los Angeles salon opened.
• Germaine Monteil Cosmetiques Corporation established in New York.
• Helene Winterstein Cosmetics founded by Helene Winterstein (Austria).
• Helena Rubinstein moves her New York salon to 715 Fifth Avenue.
• Hirestra Laboratories, Inc. founded by Robert Rheinstrom.
• Kinu Ltd. established in London.
• Lancôme opens a Paris salon.
• Lehn & Fink Products Corporation established in New York.
• Mary Chess opens a salon at 7 Shepherd Market, Mayfair, London.
• Mary Dunhill London salon moved to 34a Craven Road, Lancaster Gate.
• Max Factor Hollywood and London (Sales) Ltd. established with offices at 16 Old Bond Street, factory at Park Royal and salon at 49 Old Bond Street.
• Mrs. Pomeroy (Ireland) Ltd. established.
• Petalskin Toiletries formed in New York.
• Prince Matchabelli sold to D. Lizner & Co.
• Yardley opens a beauty salon in Bond Street, London.

• J. & E. Atkinson (Australia) Ltd. becomes J. & E. Atkinson Pty. Ltd.
• Barbara Gould, Inc. established in New York.
• Carter Medicine Company becomes Carter Products, Inc.
• Constance Bennett Cosmetics established in Hollywood, California.
• Cyclax salon opened at 7 East 53rd Street, New York.
• Dorothy Gray Salons Company established in London.
• Elizabeth Arden opens the Gymnasium Moderne in her Fifth Avenue salon; and opens a salon in Montreal.
• Fabergé, Inc. founded by Samuel Rubin after purchasing the name from Fabergé et Cie.
• Gatineau founded in Paris by Madame Jeanne Gatineau.
• Helena Rubinstein refits her Paris salon.
• Harriet Hubbard Ayer Salon de Massage opens at 33 Boulevard Haussmann, Paris.
• J. C. Laboratories change their name to Jacqueline Cochran.
• Lady Esther moves to Clearing, Chicago.
• Max Factor Studio established at 11 Rue Royal, Paris; London salon moved to 16 Old Bond Street.
• Miners Make-up Ltd. established by Henry Miner (U.K.).
• Pompeian sold to Laco Products, Inc.; and The Pompeian Co. Ltd. established in Britain.
• Pond’s Extract begins sponsoring radio programs (U.S.).
• Potter & Moore Ltd. open new London factory.
• Primrose House creates Delv Ltd. to sell Delv all-purpose cream.
• Revlon adds a style department and begins selling in stores as well as salons.
• Elsa Schiaparelli forms a U.S. company.

• Alfred D. McKelvy Company (Seaforth) founded by Alfred D. McKelvy.
• Atkinsons builds new factory n Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
• Cyclax (S.A.) Ltd. established in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• Doraldina, Inc. establishes a New York office at 230 5th Avenue.
• Elizabeth Arden opens a salon in Honolulu.
• Gala of London founded (U.K.).
• Glazo, Inc. formed in New York from the Glazo manicure line and the Elcaya cosmetic line.
• Gouband of Paris starts in New York.
• House of Westmore, Inc. (New York) established at 730 Fifth Ave., New York.
• Icilma St. Pancras factory closed; manufacturing moves to A. & F. Pears in Isleworth, London.
• McLeans acquired by Beecham.
• Peggy Sage nail polishes, formerly only sold in department stores and specialty shops, now sold through some beauty salons.
• Potter & Moore established in the U.S.
• Revlon Export Corporation organised.
• Texas Pharmacal Company founded.

• Beecham acquires County Perfumery Company Ltd., manufacturers of Brylcreem.
• California Perfume Company renamed as Avon Products, Inc.
• Charles of the Ritz acquires Doraldina; and founds Charles of the Ritz Distributors Ltd., London.
• Cosmétique Sans Soucis established in Baden-Baden, Germany by Walter Friedmann.
• Coty split into a U.S. based company and Coty International based in Panama.
• Cyclax (N.Z.) Ltd. established in Wellington, New Zealand.
• Elizabeth Arden moves Paris salon to Place Vendôme; and opens a new British factory in North Acton.
• Erno Laszlo opens the Laszlo Institute in New York.
• Guerlain opens a Beauty Institute at its Champs-Elysées store.
• Helena Rubinstein salon in Vienna closes.
• Max Factor Manufacturing Corporation dissolved; Max Factor & Co. Ltd. founded in London.
• Revlon Nail Enamel Corporation changes its name to Revlon Products Corporation.
• Shulton opens new showrooms and offices in the Rockefeller Centre, New York; new assembly facilities opened in Hoboken, New Jersey.
• Société des Teintures Inoffensives pour Cheveux renamed as L’Oréal.

• Aziza Eye Cosmetics Company established in New York.
• Barbara Gould S.A. founded in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Paris.
• Chesebrough Manufacturing Company Ltd. established in Great Britain.
• Coty creates Omnium de Participations Industries de Luxe S.A. (Panama) and Bema Corporation S.A. (Panama).
• Dana Perfumes starts in the U.S.
• Harriet Hubbard Ayer withdrawn from sale in Britain.
• Max Factor established in Manila, The Philippines and Canada.
• Mary Dunhill Ltd. ceases trading.
• Milkmaid, Inc. established in New York.
• Mrs. Pomeroy Ltd. engages F. W. Hampshire & Co. Ltd. to manufacture and retail Pomeroy beauty products.
• Northam Warren moves to Stamford, Connecticut.

• Doudney and Co. becomes distributor for Atkinsons and Erasmic. Changes its name to Atkinson and Erasmic Ltd.
• Helena Rubinstein opens the House of Gourielli at 16 East 55th Street, New York.
• Katherine Mary Quinlan, Inc. acquired by Parfums Corday, Inc. from the Pond’s Extract Company.
• Max Factor established in Cuba.
• Milkmaid, Inc. opens showrooms at 647 Fifth Avenue, New York.
• Primrose House salon moves to 379 Park Avenue, New York.
• Vick Chemical Company acquires Prince Matchabelli, Inc. and the Alfred D. McKelvy Company (Seaforth).

• Alfred D. McKelvy Company (Seaforth) headquarters moved to 10 Rockefeller Plaza, New York; factory moved to Greenwich, Connecticut.
• Chas. Pfizer & Company, Inc. becomes a public company.
• Daggett & Ramsdell lease space at 719-723 Greenwich Street, New York.
• Germaine Monteil gives up the fashion business and concentrates on cosmetics.
• Helena Rubinstein introduces the Five-Day Wonder Course; and opens a Bare-Leg Bar in her Fifth Avenue salon.
• Pears becomes the distributor for Atkinsons, Erasmic, Proprietary Perfumes, Crown Perfumery and Icilma.
• Peggy Sage launched in France.

• Proctor & Gamble creates a drug division to sell its toilet goods.
• Helen Neuschaefer, Inc. (New York) and the Lacquerite Company (New Jersey) founded by Helen Neuschaefer.

• Elizabeth Arden buys the Aeolian Building in New York.
• Johnson & Johnson lists on the New York Stock Exchange.
• Mary Dunhill Ltd. acquired by Alfred Dunhill Ltd.
• Max Factor opens New York buying office at 730 Fifth Avenue; and opens a branch in Mexico.
• Pepsodent Company acquired by Unilever.
• Toni Home Permanent Company founded by Richard Neisen Harris and Irving B. Harris.

• Divapharma pharmaceutical laboratory (Juvena), founded in Zurich.
• Cosmair becomes L’Oréal’s agent in the U.S.
• Coty sales and executive offices in New York moved to 730 Fifth Avenue.
• Kryolan GmbH. Chemische Fabrik, a professional make-up firm established by Arnold Langer in Berlin.
• Lehn & Fink Products Corporation acquires Schülke & Mayr and its worldwide rights for Lysol.
• Peggy Sage buys the building at 54 East 57th Street, New York to house the Peggy Sage Salon.
• Revlon acquires Graef & Schmidt, Inc., New York.
• United Drug Company becomes United-Rexall Drug, Inc.

• Alfred Dunhill Men’s Toiletries Ltd. founded in New York by Dunhill International.
• Elizabeth Arden de Mexico, Inc. and Elizabeth Arden de Cuba, Inc. established; and Maine Chance farm in Arizona opened.
• Estée Lauder founded by Estée and Joseph Lauder.
• Coty England opens a salon at 3 New Bond Street, London.
• Gala of London incorporates.
• Katherine Mary Quinlan, Inc. acquired by William E. Weiss, Jr. operates under the name Natcor Industries, Inc.
• Lancaster established in Monaco by Georges Wurz and Dr. Eugene Frezzati.
• Mary Chess purchased by Saunders P. Jones.
• Max Factor buys Sales Builders, Inc., the distributors of Max Factor in the U.S.; and opens branches in Australia, South Africa, Argentina and Brazil.
• Mrs Pomeroy recapitalises.
• National Industries, Inc. becomes Helene Curtis Industries, Inc.
• Revlon opens a Chicago office at 55 East Washington Square; Revlon Products (Great Britain) Ltd. established in London.
• Richard Hudnut acquires Courtley, Inc.
• Shulton factory opens in Clifton, New Jersey; establishes a subsidiary in Mexico.
• Stendhal founded by Roger Thirion at 25 Rue Royal, Paris.
• Vick Chemical Company purchases the Sofskin Company.
• Wella Hairdressing Requirements GmbH. founded in Berlin by Karl and Georg Ströher.
• Yardley head office, perfume laboratory, art department and salon moved to Yardley House, London.

• Charles of the Ritz buys Cosmos Chemical.
• Chesebrough opens a branch in India.
• Colgate-Palmolive-Peet acquires Kay Daumit, Inc. (makers of Lustre Creme shampoo).
• Coty Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (U.K.) established.
• Dorothy Gray takes over the American distribution of Suzy Perfumes.
• Estée Lauder establishes its first department store account with Saks, New York City.
• Eylure Ltd. established by David and Eric Aylott (U.K.).
• Guerlain opens a factory in Courbevoie to replace the one at Bécon-les-Bruyères destroyed in the war.
• Harriet Hubbard Ayer acquired by Lever Brothers, the American arm of Unilever.
• Henry Brooks buys the Alexandra de Markoff Facial Preparations Company.
• Lehn & Fink Products Corporation leases a new plant in Lincoln, Nebraska.
• Max Factor opens a branch in Ireland; and new factory in Bournemouth, England.
• N .G. Payot manufacturing plant and laboratories moved to Bois-Colombes.
• Orlane founded by Guillaume d’Ornano and his two sons Hubert and Michel.
• Parfums Christian Dior of Paris founded by Serge Heftler.
• United-Rexall Drug, Inc. becomes Rexall Drug, Inc.

• Armour & Company sells Luxor to Unilever.
• Daggett & Ramsdell purchased from Standard Oil by a New York investor group; begins selling the Debutante line through the Fuller Brush Company.
• Elizabeth Arden de Columbia, Inc. established.
• Givaudan acquires Ersolko S.A. and enters the flavor industry.
• Harriet Hubbard Ayer Salon de Coiffure opens at 89 Rue de Faubourg, Paris.
• Hazel Bishop, Inc. formed (U.S.).
• Helena Rubinstein moves the New York salon and executive offices to 655 Fifth Avenue.
• Innoxa salon opened at 170 New Bond Street, London.
• Jacqueline Cochran incorporates.
• Max Factor opens a branch in Italy.
• Revlon opens its first foreign factory in Mexico.
• Rallet Corporation of America established in New York as a Coty subsidiary.
• Shulton subsidiary established in Canada.
• Toni Home Permanent Company acquired by Gillette Safety Razor Company.

• Charles of the Ritz buys Alexandra de Markoff.
• Delettez line of beauty products purchased from Universal Laboratories by Associated Brands, Inc.
• Helen Neuschaefer, Inc. moves its headquarters to College Point, New York State.
• Nestle-LeMur merges with the Joubert group of companies (Pinaud, Irresistible, Blue Waltz); acquires Mavis brand of toiletries; buys Djer-Kiss brand.
• Richard Hudnut purchases Chen Yu, Inc.
• Schieffelin & Company buys Almay, Inc.
• St. Pierre Epilator Company set up by Arthur Hinkel and Henri E. St.Pierre in California.
• Toni Home Permanent Company dissolved and becomes a division of Gillette.

• Armand merged into the Weeks & Leo Company.
• Biotherm skin-care established.
• Clearasil, Inc. founded by Ivan D. Combe in New York.
• Pompeian Co. Ltd. (U.K.) liquidated.
• Pond’s Extract stops distributing its products through Lamont, Corliss and Company and sets up its own selling organisation.
• Revlon Export Corporation becomes Revlon International Corporation; and factory opened in Brazil.
• RoC founded by Jean-Charles Lissarange (France).
• Shulton establishes a Fine Chemicals Division.
• Warner & Company and Richard Hudnut realigned into a new corporation, Warner-Hudnut, Inc.; new West Coast headquarters opened at 2340 Eastern Avenue, Los Angeles.
• Wella Hairdressing Requirements GmbH. renamed as Well A.G.

• Carmen Cosmetics founded by Carmen Murphy in Detroit.
• Helena Rubinstein opens new London salon at 3 Grafton Street.
• Pond’s Extract sponsors its first television show (U.S.).
• Revlon opens factories in England and France.
• Yardley opens its first British depot outside London in Liverpool.

• Adams National Industries (Olay) established in South Africa by Graham Wulff and Jack Lowe.
• Biotherm founded by a group of dermatologists from Molitg-Les-Bains.
• Daggett & Ramsdell merges its sales force with Zonite Products Corporation.
• Dermetics, Inc. acquired by Rilling Co., New York.
• Douglas R. Collins Ltd. (Goya) bought by J. C. & J. Field Ltd. to form the Fields-Goya Cosmetic Group.
• E. R. Squibb & Sons (including Lenthéric) acquired by Mathieson Chemical.
• Gillette Safety Razor Company renamed as the Gillette Company.
• Harriet Hubbard Ayer relocated to Lever House at 390 Park Avenue, New York; entire line of Harriet Hubbard Ayer creams and lotions repackaged.
• Payot reintroduced into Britain.
• A. & F. Pears combined with D. & W. Gibbs.
• Richards & Appleby Ltd. established (U.K.).
• Rimmel opens a new salon at 70 Park Lane, London.

• Chesebrough opens a factory in Melbourne, Australia.
• Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company renamed as the Colgate-Palmolive Company.
• Cosmair, Inc., New Jersey created and becomes the exclusive licensee of the L’Oréal products in the United States.
• Coty buys a controlling interest in Société des Parfums Lucien Lelong (Paris) and Lucien LeLong, Inc. (Chicago); operations conducted by a new corporation, Lucien Lelong Co. (New York).
• Cyclax factory completed in Harlow New Town, Essex, Great Britain.
• Harriet Hubbard Ayer begins door-to-door selling.
• Helena Rubinstein opens a new American factory at East Hills, Long Island.
• Icilma distribution moved from A. & F. Pears to Pepsodent (Sales) Ltd.
• Lady Esther bought by Zonite Products Corporation.
• Mathieson Chemical (including E. R. Squibb and Lenthéric) acquired by Olin Industries to become Olin Mathieson Chemical.
• Max Factor opens a branch in Japan.
• Payot introduced into Brazil; and Laboratoire du docteur N. G. Payot, Genève, S.A. founded. (Switzerland).

• Atkinsons moves its manufacturing to a site owned by Joseph Watson and Sons.
• Aziza Eye Cosmetics Company sold to Mauvel Ltd.
• Chesebrough opens a new research laboratory at the Perth, Amboy plant.
• Institut Clarins opened at 35 Rue Tronchet, Paris by Jacques Courtin.
• Coty, Inc. organises General Beauty Products, Inc. to distribute Lucien Lelong, Marie Earle and Lily Daché Hair Cosmetics in the U.S.
• Helena Rubinstein opens new factories in California and Canada; opens new Gourielli Men’s Shop at 55th Street, New York.
• Juvena established by Edmund Georg Locher in Zürich, Switzerland.
• Lily Daché Beauty Salon opened at 78 East 56th Street, New York.
• Mary Chess takes over distribution of Peggy Sage in the United States.
• Max Factor starts manufacturing in India.
• Nestle-LeMur buys the American branch of Harriet Hubbard Ayer from Lever Brothers (European operations of Harriet Hubbard Ayer kept by French Unilever); Nestle-LeMur acquires the Nestle brand in England; Harriet Hubbard Ayer stops door-to-door selling.
• Payot Laboratories, Inc. founded in New York.

• Bristol-Myers acquires Luzier, Inc.
• Charles of the Ritz established in France; opens new salon at 3 Hill Street, Mayfair, London.
• Chesebrough Manufacturing Company merges with the Pond’s Extract Company to form Chesebrough-Pond’s.
• Daggett & Ramsdell take over the manufacture, sale and distribution of Primrose House.
• Fabergé, Inc. buys Julliette Marglen, Inc., manufacturer of nail-care preparations.
• Lakmé Cosmetics launched in India with talcum powder and lipsticks.
• Max Factor establishes a Pharmaceutical Division; opens new London salon at 28 Old Bond Street.
• Nestle-LeMur buys the Canadian branch of Harriet Hubbard Ayer from Lever Brother; acquires Milkmaid, Inc. which is integrated with the Harriet Hubbard Ayer division.
• Revlon sponsors the television program ‘The $64,000 Question’; Revlon Products Corporation renamed as Revlon, Inc. and goes public; also establishes a Pharmaceutical Division.
• Shulton buys A. Maschmeijer Jr. Ltd., New York.
• Vick creates Matchabelli-Seaforth division based at 415 Madison Avenue, New York.
• Warner-Hudnut merges with Lambert Pharmacal to form the Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical Company; sells the Courtley line of men’s toiletries to Lee Ltd.; Hudnut salon at 693 Fifth Avenue closes.
• Yardley of London (Africa) Pty. Ltd. established.
• Zonite Products Corporation changes its name to Chemway Corporation.

• Charles of the Ritz salon opens at 51 Avenue Montaigne, Paris.
• Colgate-Palmolive moves its headquarters to New York.
• Helena Rubinstein closes the Gourielli Men’s Shop.
• Helene Curtis Industries becomes a public company; acquires Lenthéric, King’s Men (toiletries), and Jules Montenier, Inc. (Stopette).
• Lehn & Fink Products Corporation acquires The Ogilvie Sisters.
• Max Factor acquires Sales Builders, Inc; buys Lee Ltd.; renames the Pharmaceutical Division as the Pharmaceutical and Speciality Division; establishes the Project Development Division for the creation of new products; opens a new office/laboratory at 1655 North McCadden Place, Hollywood; and refurbishes the Paris factory.
• Nestle-LaMer establishes Nestle-LaMer International, Inc. to handle exports.
• Peggy Sage assumes distribution of their products previously distributed by Mary Chess.
• Revlon establishes Thayer Laboratories, a drug division.
• Shulton establishes a Pharmaceutical Division; International Division set up; becomes a public company.
• Unlever acquires the french company Thibaud Gibbs.
• Warner-Lambert opens a new Du Barry showroom in New York.

• Charles of the Ritz establishes the Ritz School of Advance Hair Fashions Ltd. in New York.
• Coty GmbH. established in Mainz, Germany; Coty S.A. M. (Mexico) liquidated.
• Guerlain opens a third Paris store on Rue de Passy.
• Kurlash sold to the Glemby Company and the House of Westmore (New York).
• Plough, Inc. buys the Coppertone Sales Company of Miami.
• Shiseido begins international operations.
• Shulton (Great Britain) Ltd. established at 160 Piccadilly, London.

• Atkinsons updates its London beauty salon.
• Bristol-Myers buys Khasana (West Germany).
• Campana Corporation acquired by Allied Laboratories.
• Chesebrough-Pond’s, Inc. acquires Prince Matchabelli, Seaforth and Sofskin from Vick Chemical Company; Sofskin resold.
• Daggett & Ramsdell merges with the Barcley Corset Company.
• Ingram Menthol Company established by James Field; acquires the Ingram name and goodwill from Bristol-Myers.
• International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. (IFF) formed from the merger between Polak & Schwarz and van Ameringen-Haebler.
• Marcelle Cosmetics, Inc. acquired by The Borden Company.
• Mary Chess buys Parfums Schiaparelli.
• Max Factor merges Pharmaceutical and Specialties Division and the U.S. Cosmetics Division; opens a new manufacturing plant and warehouse in Hawthorne, California; and a new factory in Mexico City.
• Parfums Christian Dior acquired by the Möet-Hennessy group.
• Plough, Inc. acquires Lanotan, Inc.
• Revlon, Inc. acquires an interest in Schick, Inc.
• Rexall Drug, Inc. becomes the Rexall Drug & Chemical Company.
• Shulton moves its headquarters to larger offices in the Rockefeller Center; establishes a subsidiary in Venezuela.

• Adrien Arpel founded by Adrien Arpel.
• Amway Corporation founded.
• Avon enters the British market.
• Bristol-Myers acquires Clairol.
• Charles of the Ritz acquires Anatole Robbins (Countess Isserlyn cosmetics) and the Venus Pen & Pencil Corporation.
• Chesebrough-Pond’s, Inc. acquires Aziza Eye Cosmetics Division of Mauvel Ltd.
• Colgate-Palmolive purchases the Wildroot Company.
• L’Oréal opens its first international subsidiary in Brazil.
• Revlon acquires Bressard Hair Products Corporation and Bressard Distributors, Inc.; opens the House of Revlon salon in New York.
• Yardley House in Old Bond Street extended and modernised; Yardley International Research Laboratories established in Union City, New Jersey.

• Bourjois, Inc. acquires Helene Pessl, Inc.
• Chesebrough-Pond’s acquires Northam Warren (Peggy Sage, Cutex, Odorono, Glazo, Keen Edge Cutlery).
• Coty sells Marie Earle, Lucien LeLong, and Lilly Daché to Mary Chess.
• Dow Chemical Company acquires Allied Laboratories including Campana.
• Estée Lauder commences international operations with an account at Harrods.
• Fields-Goya bought by Reckitt & Sons, a division of Reckitt & Colman Ltd.
• Kanebo acquires Kanegafuchi Chemical Industries.
• Mary Chess, Inc. acquires Parfums Lucien LeLong, Inc.; moves to 597 Fifth Avenue, New York.
• National Toilet Company of Paris, Tennessee, acquired by the Chattem Drug and Chemical Company.
• Revlon acquires Les Parfums Pierre Balmain S.A. Paris and Realistic Company of Cincinnati; establishes Revlon Professional aimed at the professional salon industry.
• Shulton acquires Tecnique, Inc.
• Studio Girl acquired by Helene Curtis Industries, Inc.
• Vick Chemical Company buys Clearasil, Inc.; and changes its name to Richardson-Merrell, Inc.

• Andrew Jergens becomes a public company.
• W. J. Bush & Co. Ltd. (including Potter & Moore) acquired by Albright & Wilson.
• Charles of the Ritz becomes a public company.
• Chas. Pfizer purchases the Thomas Leeming & Company Ltd. and Pacquin, Inc.
• Germaine Monteil becomes available in the U.K.
• Helene Curtis enters U.K. market.
• House of Westmore (New York) buys the rest of Kurlash.
• Lanolin Plus acquires Lilly Daché Cosmetics, Inc.
• Maradel Products, Inc. incorporates in New York.
• Max Factor becomes a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange; acquires Parfums Corday, Inc. and its subsidiaries; opens a new distribution centre in Des Plaines, Illinois.
• Monsavon acquired by Procter & Gamble.
• Redken Laboratories, Inc. launched by Paula Kent Meeham.
• Revlon opens the House of Revlon salon at 698 Fifth Avenue, New York.
• Shulton buys the Aerosol Corporation of America; establishes a Home Products Division and Colfax Laboratories.
• Yardley factory built in Union Avenue, Totowa, New Jersey.

• Barbasol Company bought by Chas. Pfizer.
• Braun becomes Braun A.G., a publicly traded company.
• Chesebrough-Pond’s acquires Q-Tips, Inc. and Vasenol Werke (West Germany); sells Seaforth to Mary Chess.
• Charles of the Ritz S.A. established in France.
• Coty International Corporation (Delaware) and Omnium de Participations Industries de Luxe S.A. (Panama) dissolved.
• Daggett & Ramsdell sold to Exquisite Form Industries, Inc.
• Helena Rubinstein opens a factory in Tel Aviv, Israel.
• Helene Curtis Industries creates Studio Girl division to sell door-to-door.
• House of Westmore (New York) acquires Diamon-Deb, Inc. and combines it with Kurlash.
• Innoxa open a salon in Cyprus.
• Kryolan GmbH. acquires the make-up firm Brandel GmbH.
• Hazel Bishop, Inc. and Lanolin Plus merge to form Bishop Industries.
• Natone renamed as Neutrogena Corporation.
• Maradel Products acquires Sally Hansen, Inc.
• Max Factor opens a new factory in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
• Purex Corporation Ltd. buys Campana Corporation from the Dow Chemical Company.
• Revlon Research Centre, Inc. established in New York.

• Andrew Jergens Company (U.K.) Ltd. established.
• American Cyanamid acquires Breck.
• Atkinsons U.K. business transferred to E. R. Holloway Ltd.
• Bunting Chemical Company merges with the Noxzema Chemical Company.
• ChapStick rights sold to A. H. Robbins Company.
• Coty, Inc. and Coty International acquired by Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc.
• Erida Productions Ltd. founded by Eric and David Aylott; and Eylure (of London), Inc. founded in New York.
• Maradel Products acquires the House of Tre-Jur, Inc.
• Estée Lauder begins national advertising.
• Givaudan acquired by Roche.
• Kurlash-Diamon Deb sold to Harold M. Mitchell, Inc.
• Lanvin Parfums Ltd. acquires Jean Naté.
• L’Oréal lists on the Paris stock exchange.
• Maradel Products acquires the House of Tre-Jur, Inc.
• Marinello Schools purchased by Scope Industries with headquarters located in Los Angeles.
• Mary Dunhill Ltd. renamed as Dunhill Toiletries Ltd.
• Mary Kay founded by Mary Kay Ash in Dallas, Texas.
• Max Factor opens a new factory in Toronto, Canada.; and opens a new branch in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
• René Guinot establishes René Guinot Company (France).
• Revlon manufacturing and sales established in Japan.
• Shulton acquires the E. Wright Company, Decatur, Illinois.
• William Warner & Co. Ltd. of England acquires the DuBarry Perfumery Co. Ltd. of Hove, Sussex, England.

• Charles of the Ritz merges with Lanvin to form Lanvin-Charles of the Ritz, Inc.; creates Parfums Yves Saint Laurent in Sarl, Paris.
• Eylure Wigs Ltd. founded in London.
• Fabergé, Inc. sold to Rayette, Inc. which changed its name to Rayette-Fabergé, Inc.
• House of Westmore (New York) sells Kurlash-Diamon Deb to Harold M. Mitchell, Inc.
• International Flavors & Fragrances (I.F.F.) becomes a public company.
• L’Oréal acquires Lancôme.
• John Robert Powers Products Co., Inc. bought by The Borden Company.
• Max Factor opens a new regional office in the Bankers Trust Building at 280 Park Avenue, New York.
• Nestle-LeMur buys Lucien Lelong, Marie Earle and Seaforth from Mary Chess, Inc.
• Revlon acquires Belvedere Products, makers of salon equipment and Belmont Laboratories (Mazon dermatologicals).
• Richards & Appleby Ltd. buy Personality Beauty Products (U.K.).
• Yardley of London Ltd. and Yardley International Ltd. created.

• Beecham acquires Margaret Astor.
• Carter Products, Inc. renamed Carter-Wallace, Inc.
• Clairol announces they are entering the cosmetics business.
• Coty begins sales in Japan.
• Hazel Bishop acquires Raymond Research Corporation.
• Helena Rubinstein opens a factory in Guatemala City, Guatemala.
• House of Westmore (Hollywood) closes the Westmore Salon of Beauty.
• Innoxa (England) Ltd. acquires L. Leichner (London) Ltd.
• Lanvin-Charles of the Ritz acquires Yves Saint Laurent from J. Mack Robinson.
• L’Oréal acquires Garnier.
• Max Factor opens a new distribution centre in Gardena, California.
• The Polly Bergen Company established by Polly Bergen.
• Richards & Appleby Ltd. appointed U.K. distributors of Maybelline.
• Revlon sells Schick Electric, Inc.
• Shulton acquires Jacqueline Cochran; establishes a Franchise Cosmetics Division.

• Albright & Wilson form Bush Boake Allen Ltd. from the merger of W. J. Bush & Co. Ltd. (including Potter & Moore), A. Boake Roberts & Co. Ltd. and Stafford Allen & Sons Ltd.
• Andrew Jergens Company (U.K.) Ltd. liquidated.
• Chesebrough-Pond’s acquires Erno Laszlo Institute.
• Eylure builds a new factory in Cwmbran, South Wales.
• Jean Patou, Inc., the U.S. affiliate of Jean Patou, Paris, bought by The Borden Company.
• Gala Cosmetic Group Ltd. create a subsidiary, Mary Quant Cosmetics Ltd.
• Golden Peacock, Inc. renamed as The Mitchum Company.
• Lady Esther Kosmetik GmbH established in Munich, West Germany.
• Lanvin-Charles of the Ritz acquires a factory in Homdel, New Jersey from Mattel, Inc.
• Lehn & Fink Products Corporation (including Dorothy Gray, Tussy, Hinds) acquired by Sterling Drug, Inc.
• Maradel Products renamed as Del Laboratories.
• Max Factor executive offices moved to the Max Factor building at 6922 Hollywood Boulevard, Hollywood.
• Noxzema Chemical Company changes its name to Noxell Corporation.
• Orlane opens the Institut Orlane in Avenue George V, Paris.
• Revlon acquires the U.S. Vitamin & Pharmaceutical Corporation and Raphael Parfums S.A. France.
• Rexall Drug & Chemical Company acquires Vanda Cosmetics.
• Shulton buys J. Warren Kane, Inc. which becomes Carven Distributors, Inc. after a name change.
• Yardley relocates from High Street, Stratford, to Miles Gray Road, Basildon.
• Warner-Lambert acquires Texas Pharmacal.

• Alfred Dunhill of London, Inc. (New York) bought by Alfred Dunhill Ltd. (London).
• Barbara Gould relaunched in Britain at 2 Old Bond Street, London.
• Beecham Group acquires Lancaster, Monte Carlo.
• Bristol-Myers and the Mead Johnson Company merge.
• Chesebrough-Pond’s acquires Royall Lyme Ltd., makers of men’s toiletries.
• P. Beiersdorf & Company A.G. changes its name to Beiersdorf A.G.
• Del Laboratories buys Rejuvia, Inc. (Flame-Glo)
• Divex, Inc. acquires Laco Products, Inc.
• Eylure Cosmetics Ltd. founded in New Zealand.
• Gillette acquires Braun A.G.
• Harriet Hubbard Ayer sold to the Standard Metals Corporation.
• Hazel Bishop acquires Veri-Tone of Newark, N.J. and Beadmore, Inc.
• Helena Rubinstein buys its Mexican distributer, Cullen S.A.
• Lanvin-Charles of the Ritz acquires the Dureen Soap Corporation.
• Lenthéric acquired by British American Tobacco (BAT) after an initial stake bought in 1964.
• Maybelline acquired by Plough, Inc.
• Max Factor opens a new branch in El Salvador.
• Revlon acquires the U.S. Vitamin and Pharmaceutical Corporation.
• Shiseido cosmetics established in America.
• Shulton merges Colfax Laboratories into its Cosmetics & Toiletries Division and Carven perfumes into Jacqueline Cochran; also acquires world-wide distribution rights of Pierre Cardin perfumes and toiletries.
• Standard Metals Corporation acquires Michel Cosmetics, Inc., Harriet Hubbard Ayer, Inc. and the Herb Farm Shops Ltd.
• Yardley bought by British American Tobacco (BAT).

• Albright & Wilson (who own Potter & Moore Ltd.) sold to E. C. de Witt & Co.
• J. & E. Atkinson GmbH founded in West Germany.
• Beech-Nut Life Savers merges with Squibb (part of the Olin Corporation) to form the Squibb Beech-Nut Corporation.
• Chesebrough-Pond’s buys Societe Francaise de Distribution, S.A. (SFD) and Consortium Mediterranee de Parfumerie S.A. (CMP).
• Coty manufacturing ceases in Canada.
• Dell Laboratories (formerly Maradel Products) acquires Mary Chess, Inc. and Schiaparelli, Inc.
• S. A. Française Alfred Dunhill acquires Les Parfums de Molyneux S.A.
• Eve of Roma acquired by American Gillette.
• Elyure opens the ‘Let’s Face It’ make-up centre in Grosvenor Street, London.
• Goya sold to Christopher Collins, son of the company founder, by Reckitt & Colman Ltd.
• Helena Rubinstein moves its New York offices to 767 Fifth Avenue, New York.
• Jovan, Inc. formed by Bernard A. Mitchell and Barry Shipp in Chicago, Illinois.
• Max Factor acquires the Denver Chemical Manufacturing Company of Stamford, Connecticut.
• Nestle-LeMur sells the Milkmaid line to Minnetonka Laboratories.
• Orlane acquired by Morton-Norwich.
• Revlon’s Professional Products division moves to New York; adds Cosmetics and Fragrances Division and Revlon Development Corporation.
• Rexall Drug & Chemical Company acquires Beauty Counselors and Cort-Romney Cosmetics Company.

• Elizabeth Arden, Inc. buys Elizabeth Arden S.A.
• Eylure International Ltd. established in Hong Kong.
• Germaine Monteil acquired by British American Tobacco (BAT).
• Helena Rubinstein consolidates its operations worldwide.
• House of Westmore (New York) builds new manufacturing plant in Newburgh, New York State.
• Mary Kay acquires Goodier, Inc. and Rachel York Pty. Ltd.
• Maybelline relaunches in the U.K.
• Rayette-Fabergé, Inc. renamed as Fabergé, Inc.
• Rexall Drug & Chemical becomes Dart Industries; Beauty Counselors, Vanda Cosmetics and Cort-Romney Cosmetics merge to form Vanda Beauty Counselor.
• Rose H. Laird Company (U.S.) sold to Carmen Cosmetics.

• Andrew Jergens acquired by American Brands.
• British American Tobacco (BAT) creates a cosmetic division, British American Cosmetics (BAC) from its cosmetic acquisitions (Lenthéric, Germaine Monteil, Morny and Yardley).
• Chas. Pfizer & Co., Inc. renamed as Pfizer, Inc.
• Cyclax acquired by Lehman Brothers on behalf of private investors; South Molton Street salon closed.
• Elizabeth Arden acquired by Eli Lilly; Maine Chance Health Spa in Maine closed; and London salon moves to New Bond Street.
• Harriet Hubbard Ayer withdraws from the British market.
• Lanvin-Charles of the Ritz sells sixteen of its beauty salons to Glemby Co.
• Les Parfums de Molyneux S.A. sold by S.A. Française Alfred Dunhill.
• L’Oréal acquires Biotherm.
• Marie Earle acquired by the Hichens Chemical Company.
• Max Factor opens a new branch in Indonesia.
• Revlon acquires Mitchum Company of Tennessee, makers of antiperspirants and other toiletries; merged with Thayer Laboratories to form the Mitchum-Thayer Division.
• Smith & Nephew acquires the Myram Picker Group (Gala, Outdoor Girl, Miners, Mary Quant) (U.K.).
• Warner-Lambert buys the Schick wet-shave product line from Eversharp; merges with Parke-Davis.

• Eylure acquires Roberts Windsor from Union International Ltd.
• Goya sold to International Chemical Industries (ICI).
• Lanvin-Charles of the Ritz sold to Squibb-Beechnut which becomes the Squibb Corporation.
• Plough merges with Schering to become the Schering-Plough Corporation.
• Polly Bergen acquired by Gulf & Western Industries.
• Rimmel acquired by ITT (once known as International Telephone & Telegraph) from Carlton Industries.
• Shulton acquired by American Cyanamid.

• Eylure Benelux established in Belgium.
• Guinot acquired by Jean-Daniel Mondin.
• Mary Chess Ltd. acquired by Robert Patterson; becomes Mary Chess London.
• Max Factor merged with Norton Simon, Inc.
• Payot bought by ITT.
• Revlon closes the House of Revlon salon in New York.

• Coty and Coty International unite.
• Cyclax bought by Cooper Laboratories International.
• Gemey acquired by L’Oréal.
• Dunhill acquires controlling interest in Richards & Appleby Ltd.
• Helena Rubinstein, Inc. acquired by Colgate-Palmolive.
• Jafra Cosmetics acquired by Gillette.
• Neutrogena becomes a public company.
• Polly Bergen sold to Fabergé.
• Rose Laird Ltd. (U.K.) sold to International Laboratories Ltd.

• Cyclax acquired by British American Cosmetics (BAC).
• House of Westmore (New York) acquired by Syntex, Inc.
• L’Oréal signs agreement with Nestlé introduces the Lancôme brand into the U.S.
• Vileda buys Lady Esther Kosmetik GmbH and the worldwide rights to Lady Esther outside the U.S.A.

• Hazel Bishop becomes a division of Toiletry Products of America.
• Revlon buys Norcliff Laboratories from McKesson & Robbins.

• Anita Roddick opens the first Body Shop in Brighton, England.
• Clinique La Prairie acquired by Armin Mattli.
• Dunhill opens new cosmetics and toiletries factory in Lancashire.
• Kryolan opens its first subsidiary in California.
• Orlane acquired by Norton Simon.
• Ricils acquired by L’Oréal and attached to Gemey.
• Sea & Ski sold to Smith, Klein and French.

• Juvena acquired by British American Cosmetics (BAC).
• L’Oreal acquires Société de Fabrication et de Distribution de Parfumerie et Cosmétique Diparco S.A.
• Revlon acquires Carlos Colomer, a Spanish professional beauty supply distributor.
• Rose Laird Ltd. (U.K.) sold to Purex Industries, Inc.
• Shulton (American Cyanamid) sells their CornSilk line to the Chattem Drug and Chemical Company.

• Avon acquires Tiffany.
• Calvin Klein starts up a fragrances and cosmetics line.
• Chattem Drug and Chemical Company changes its name to Chattem, Inc.
• Dell Laboratories acquires the LaCross division of A.R. Winarick, Inc.
• Frances Denney acquired by William Fine and a group of investors.
• House of Westmore, Inc. (New York) acquired by Syntex, Inc.
• La Prairie Cosmetics established by Armin Mattli in Switzerland.
• Rimmel U.K. acquired by Schering-Plough.
• Unilever creates Parfums Roberre Ltd. from Pierre Robert, Harriet Hubbard Ayer and Atkinsons.

• Beecham acquires Jovan, Inc.
• Payot introduced into Australia.

• Calvin Klein sells its fragrance and cosmetics business to Minnetonka, Inc.
• Colgate-Palmolive sells Helena Rubinstein to Albi Enterprises, Inc.
• Diadermine sold to Henkel Kosmetik GmbH.
• Frances Denney acquired by Delalande S.A., a French pharmaceutical company.
• Kurlash-Diamon Deb sold to Robert Roth and Mario Maffie.
• Lady Esther becomes available in Britain for a time.
• L’Oréal purchases Vicky.
• Max Factor (Norton Simon) acquires Gala Cosmetics, Mary Quant, Outdoor Girl and Miners from Myram Picker (Smith & Nephew) (U.K.).
• Neutrogena expands into hair-care products.
• Payot sold to GmbH & Co. KG, Germany.
• Richardson-Merrell, Inc. acquired by Dow Chemical Company; name changed to Richardson-Vicks, Inc.
• Warner-Lambert acquires the Schick dry shave products and trademarks from Schick, Inc.

• Rose Laird Ltd. (U.K.) sold to Innoxa (England) Ltd.
• Shiseido begins marketing cosmetics in China.

• Armin Mattli sells Laboratories La Prairie to American Cyanamid.
• Sterex Electrolysis International Ltd. founded (U.K.).
• Wella A.G. acquires Rene Garraud S.A. a French cosmetic manufacturing firm.
• Zotos purchased by Conair Corporation from R. L. Evans Jr.

• Almay Cosmetics acquired by Playtex International.
• Diane Von Furstenberg cosmetics acquired by Beecham.
• Norton Simon (includes Max Factor, Gala Cosmetics, Mary Quant, Outdoor Girl, Miners and Orlane) acquired by Esmark.
• Wella A.G. becomes a public company; acquires the remaining stock in Wella U.S., Wella Canada and Wella Puerto Rico.

• British American Cosmetics (BAC) acquired by Beecham from British American Tobacco (BAT).
• Esmark merges with Beatrice Foods. Max Factor put into the Playtex beauty division.
• Fabergé, Inc. sold to the McGregor Corporation (a public apparel company) which goes private and later changes its name to Fabergé.
• Kao enters the cosmetics market (Sofina cosmetics).
• Lady Esther Kosmetik GmbH sold to the Figaj family who move the company to Bensheim, Germany.
• L’Oréal acquires Ralph Lauren Fragrances; buys Helena Rubinstein in Latin America and Japan.
• Make-up Art Cosmetics Ltd. (MAC) founded in Toronto, Canada by Frank Toskan and Frank Angelo.

• Jurlique founded by Jurgen and Ulrike Klein in South Australia.
• Juvena bought by Beecham.
• Kurlash-Diamon Deb moves to Newburgh, Orange County, New York State.
• Revlon acquired by Pantry Pride, a subsidiary of MacAndrews & Forbes Holdings and becomes a private company; sells Norcliff Thayer to SmithKline Beecham.
• Richardson-Vicks, Inc. (Pantene, Olay, Clearasil and Vicks) sold to Procter & Gamble.
• Unilever sells Harriet Hubbard Ayer to Imperial Kosmetic GmbH.

• Chesebrough-Pond’s acquired by Unilever.
• Dermalogica founded by Jane Wurwand (Los Angeles).
• Lanvin-Charles of the Ritz, Inc. acquired by Yves Saint Laurent.
• Pantry Pride changes its name to Revlon Group, Inc. and acquires the Playtex beauty division (includes Max Factor, Almay, Halston and Gala).
• Rose Laird Ltd. (U.K.) sold to Silhouette International Ltd.

• American Cyanamid sells Jacqueline Cochran, Inc. and Laboratories La Prairie to Sanofi S.A., who then on-sold La Prairie to Georgette Mosbacher.
• Barbara Gould S.A. sold to Reckitt & Colman (France) S.A.
• Elizabeth Arden acquired by Fabergé, Inc. from Eli Lilly.
• Germaine Monteil U.S. rights acquired by Revlon Group, Inc. from Beecham.
• Lanvin-Charles of the Ritz, Inc. (including Alexandra de Markoff and Bain de Soleil tanning products but excluding Yves Saint Laurent Beauté Charles of the Ritz perfumes) sold to Revlon.
• Revlon Group, Inc. goes public.
• Wella A.G. acquires Parfum Rochas S.A.

• Andrew Jergens acquired by Kao.
• Braun acquires French hair remover manufacturer Silk-Epil.
• L’Oréal acquires worldwide assets of Helena Rubinstein.
• Juvena management buys Juvena from Beecham.
• Procter & Gamble acquires Noxell Corporation, makers of Noxzema products and Cover Girl.
• Rigaud acquired by Perigot Ltd.
• Sterling Drug, Inc. (includes Lehn & Fink) acquired by Eastman Kodak.
• Zotos International purchased by Shiseido Co. Ltd. from Conair Corporation.

• Beecham merges with SmithKline to form SmithKline Beecham.
• Bristol-Myers merged with Squibb to create Bristol-Myers Squibb.
• Caswell-Massey acquired by Peter Hsu and Sally Aw Sian.
• Eylure sold to Nobel Consumer Goods.
• Kao gains controlling interest in Goldwell GmbH.
• Lady Esther Kosmetik GmbH builds a factory in Bensheim, Germany.
• L’Oréal buys Laboratories la Roche-Posay.
• Revlon Group, Inc. acquires Betrix Cosmetics GmbH., a German make-up and fragrance maker.
• Unilever acquires Minnetonka (including Calvin Klein), Fabergé (including Elizabeth Arden), and Rimmel.

• Elizabeth Arden salons all closed down.
• Frances Denney acquired by Colonia, Inc., the U.S. subsidiary of Mulhens Parfumerie-Fabrik, Cologne, West Germany.
• Juvena sold to Beiersdorf A.G.
• Maybelline, Yardley, Cyclax, Germaine Monteil and Lenthéric acquired by the investor group Wasserstein Perella & Company from Schering-Plough and SmithKline Beecham to be operated through the Old Bond Street Corporation.
• SmithKline Beecham’s cosmetics business (Lancaster, Mary Astor and others) acquired by Joh. A. Benckiser GmbH.; also sells American Lady Esther and others to Menley & James, Inc.
• Shulton (American Cyanamid) sells their Old Spice line to Procter & Gamble.

• Beiersdorf A.G. acquires Laboratories La Prairie S.A.
• Bobbi Brown established by Bobbi Brown in New York.
• Eylure sold to Original Additions.
• Make-up Art Cosmetics Ltd. (MAC) opens first store in the United States.
• Mary Chess bought by the Fine Fragrances and Cosmetic Group, London.
• Quintessence Holdings, Inc. sold to Joh. A. Benckiser GmbH.
• Revlon Group, Inc. sells Max Factor and Betrix to Procter & Gamble, the U.S. rights of Germaine Monteil and Lancaster to Joh. A. Benckiser GmbH. (West Germany), and its Clean and Clear skin-care range to Johnson & Johnson Products, Inc.
• Sassaby Inc. founded by Leonie Mateer and Kevin Jasper in California.

• Clarins invests in Thierry Mugler Couture.
• Colgate-Palmolive acquires the Mennen Company.
• Coty acquired by Joh. A. Benckiser GmbH. from Pfizer.
• Diparco (L’Oréal) renamed Gemey Paris.
• W. R. Grace & Co. acquire a 40% holding in Caswell-Massey.
• Revlon sells Princess Marcella Borghese and Halston Enterprises to a Saudi investment group who establish Halston Borghese International Ltd.
• Unilever establishes the Prestige Personal Products Group which includes Elizabeth Arden and Calvin Klein.
• Yardley of London (Africa) Pty. Ltd. acquired by National Brands Ltd., a subsidiary of AVI Ltd.

• Estée Lauder signs a global licensing agreement with designer Tommy Hilfiger.
• Frances Denney acquired by The Stephan Company from Mulhens Parfumerie-Fabrik.
• Joh. A. Benckiser GmbH. merges Coty with Quintessence, Inc.
• L’Oréal acquires Redken 5th Avenue.
• Payot factory at Bois-Colombes closed.
• Prince Matchabelli brands sold by Unilever to Parfums de Coeur.
• Revlon announces the formation of Revlon Professional Worldwide.
• RoC Skincare sold by LVMH to Johnson & Johnson.
• Warner-Lambert acquires Wilkinson Sword.
• Wella A.G. acquires Sebastien International.

• Deborah Group acquires Rouge Baiser.
• Estée Lauder acquires majority equity interest in Make-up Art Cosmetics Ltd. (MAC).
• Guerlain acquired by Louis Vuitton Moët Hennessy (LVMH).
• International Classic Brands established by David Reiner after acquiring Cyclax and Morny.
• Jane Cosmetics founded by Sassaby, Inc.
• L’Oréal acquires Cosmair.
• L&F Products (includes Dorothy Gray, Tussy, Hinds) acquired by Reckitt & Colman Pty. Ltd. from Eastman Kodak.
• Neutrogena Corporation acquired by Johnson & Johnson.
• Stendhal bought by the Bogart Group.
• Wella A.G. acquires Müelhens GmbH & Co. KG.

• American Cyanamid bought by American Home Products Corporation.
• Clarins acquires Azzaro Parfums.
• Colgate-Palmolive Company acquire Kolynos Oral Care.
• Daggett & Ramsdell bought by Fisk Industries, Inc.
• Erno Laszlo sold by Elizabeth Arden (Unilever) to Mana Products, New York.
• Estée Lauder acquires Bobbi Brown; luxury skin-care brand La Mer; signs a global licensing agreement with Kiton, an Italian fashion house, for beauty products.
• L’Oréal acquires Jade (Germany).
• Peggy Sage purchased by the Collomb family.
• Revlon Holdings, Inc. sells Alexandra de Markoff cosmetics and fragrances to Parlux Fragrances.

• Coty, Inc. created as a separate company to contain the worldwide cosmetics and fragrances operations of Joh. A. Benckiser GmbH. (Coty, Lancaster, Mary Astor, Jovan, Germaine Monteil and others); acquires Unilever’s European make-up brands including Rimmel and a license to make Cutex products in Europe and elsewhere.
• Helene Curtis acquired by Unilever; North American Helene Curtis professional hair-care line then sold to Shiseido.
• L’Oréal acquires Maybelline and the Chilean company Unisa.
• Revlon becomes a public company again.
• Wella AG sells Payot to Myrurgia.

• Beiersdorf A.G. acquires the Polish company Pollena-Lechia; completes the repurchase of the Nivea trademarks it lost after the Second World War.
• Cutex (American and Puerto-Rican) acquired by Carson, Inc. from Unilever.
• Estée Lauder signs a licensing agreement with American fashion designer Donna Karan; acquires Aveda Corporation; buys Sassaby, Inc.
• Perricone M.D. founded by Dr. Nicholas Perricone.
• Proctor & Gamble acquire Tambrands (Tampax).
• Unilever sells the Japanese Helene Curtis professional hair-care line to Shiseido.
• Wella consolidates in the holding company, Cosmopolitan Cosmetics GmbH.

• Braun A.G. is transformed into a private company.
• Del Laboratories buys the CornSilk brand from Chattem.
• Estée Lauder completes its acquisition of Make-up Art Cosmetics Ltd. (MAC); first MAC Pro Store opens in SoHo, New York.
• L’Oréal merges Gemey and Maybelline; acquires Soft Sheen Products (makes products for ethnic hair-types).
• Numark Laboratories, Inc. buys the assets of Menley & James.
• Perricone M.D. renamed as N.V. Perricone M.D.
• Pétrole Hahn bought by Eugene Perma from Procter & Gamble.
• Playtex Products, Inc. acquires the Personal Products Division of Reckitt & Colman Pty. Ltd. (including Dorothy Gray, Tussy).

• Reckitt & Colman sell Barbara Gould to Carter-Wallace.
• Estée Lauder acquires Stila Cosmetics, Inc.
• Coty introduces the Rimmel make-up line into the U.S.
• Cutex nail polish remover business in the U.S. acquired by the investment firm, the Shansby Group.
• Cyclax acquired by Richards & Appleby Ltd.
• Numark Laboratories sells American Lady Esther to Lee Pharmaceuticals.