Tag: history

From a small Kansas storefront to dining tables around the world The Humble Beginnings (1958) In the summer of 1958, two college brothers—Dan and Frank Carney—took a leap of…

The story of KitKat reaches back further than most would expect — to 18th-century England. Around the late 1690s, a pastry cook named Christopher Cat gained popularity for his mut…

From the cobbled streets of Bern to the global chocolate aisle, Toblerone has carved out a legacy as distinct as its triangular peaks. But beyond its sweet exterior lies a story l…

Copywriter Claude C. Hopkins encountered the problem in 1911 when two Milwaukee soap makers, Charles Pearce and B.J. Johnson, came to him with a dilemma. Palmolive, their toilet s…

When MP Ahammed was born, his father, a farmer, was well-known in his hometown of Karayad and had already reached the age of 60. He was the youngest of six children and the only s…

Dewayne Douglas, an assistant football coach at the University of Florida, met with a group of university scientists at the start of the 1965 summer season to discuss the bad impa…

Hakeem Muhammad Kabeeruddin formulated Rooh Afza in 1906 in Ghaziabad and introduced by Hakim Hafiz Abdul Majeed in Old Delhi, India. Hakim Hafiz Abdul Majeed set out to develo…

Kasinathuni Nageswara Rao was born in the Krishna district of Andhra Pradesh in 1867. After finishing his elementary education at his birthplace, he moved to Madras to gradua…

To treat their children's cuts, cracked lips, and rough skin and infections, generations of Bengali families have relied on Boroline, a scented cream that has a long history of us…

Kanchi Morarji, hailing from Kutch in Gujarat, started this business in 1862. Later, he included his nephew, Vallabhdas, as a partner. The commission agency of Morarji and Vallabh…

Nalli Chinnasami Chetty was born in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. His ancestors were from Nalli, Andhra Pradesh, and had relocated to Kanchipuram. Since the fifteenth century, textiles…

Edward Abraham Dyer, an entrepreneur from Scotland, established a brewery in 1843. (who also happened to be the father of Colonel Reginald Dyer, who oversaw the unfortunate massac…