The name soap opera stems from the original dramatic serials broadcast on radio that had soap manufacturers, such as Procter & Gamble, Colgate-Palmolive and Lever Brothers, as sponsors and producers.

Palm oil formed the basis of soap products, such as Lever Brothers ' ( now Unilever ) " Sunlight " soap, and the American Palmolive brand.

In 1946 it developed " All " laundry detergent and began to market it ; they sold the product line to Lever Brothers in 1957.

The Maypole Dairy Company was later acquired by Lever Brothers who, as part of the multinational Unilever company, converted the site to a Wall's Sausages factory which produced sausages and other meat products through until the late 1970s.

The index started as an index of industrial shares, and companies with dominant overseas interests were excluded, such as the Anglo-Iranian Oil Company ( later BP ), British-American Tobacco, Lever Brothers ( later Unilever ) and Shell.

Among the industries that would prosper in the first half of the 20th century were Alcoa Aluminum, the Ford Motor Company, Lever Brothers, Valvoline Oil Co. and Archer-Daniels-Midland.

David Norris was born in Leopoldville in the Belgian Congo, now known as Kinshasa, capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo, where his father ( John Norris ) worked as chief engineer for Lever Brothers.

His best-known design is the Lever House, built as a corporate headquarters for the soap company Lever Brothers.

The amalgamation of the operations of British soapmaker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie ( a 1927 amalgamation of Anton Jurgens Margarinefabrieken N. V. and Samuel van den Bergh ) made sound commercial sense, as palm oil was a major raw material for both margarines, and soaps, and could be imported more efficiently in larger quantities.

The subsidiary of Lever Brothers was named " Huileries du Congo Belge ".

The US division carried the Lever Brothers name until the 1990s, when it adopted that of the parent company.

* Murals ( 1939 ): assisted Francis Scott Bradford in creating large murals depicting Beacon Hill socialites, commissioned by the Lever Brothers of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Lever Brothers was a British manufacturer founded in 1885 by William Hesketh Lever ( 1851 – 1925 ) and his brother, James Darcy Lever ( 1854 – 1910 ).

Lever Brothers merged with Margarine Unie in 1930 to form Unilever.

Though the company was named Lever Brothers, William Lever's brother and co-director James never took a major part in running the business.

Lever Brothers was one of several British companies that took an interest in the welfare of its employees.

Lever Brothers Ltd also acquired other soap companies including A & F Pears, Gossage's of Widnes, Watson's of Leeds, Crosfield's of Warrington, Hazlehurst & Sons of Runcorn and Hudson's of Liverpool.

Lever Brothers rode the cresting late-Victorian consumer revolution to build a vast worldwide industrial empire.

The Lever Brothers name was kept for a time as an imprint, as well as the name of the US subsidiary, Lever Brothers Company, and a Canadian subsidiary, Lever Brothers Ltd.

Lever started work at his father's grocery business in Bolton but as a businessman, he is noted for founding the soap and cleaning product firm, Lever Brothers, with his younger brother James in 1885.

Ferrari's Presque rien No. 1 ' Le Lever du jour au bord de la mer ( 1970 ) is regarded as a classic of its kind.

Lorrequer was merely a string of Irish and other stories good, bad and indifferent, but mostly rollicking, and Lever, who strung together his anecdotes late at night after the serious business of the day was done, was astonished at its success.

Among its presidents was Charles Luckman who in the 1950s championed the construction of the Lever House in New York City.

Trumpeter Harry James, in his 1942 arrangement of Eric Coates's By the Sleepy Lagoon, made use of the " Lever du jour " music from Daphnis et Chloë for its opening.

Set in the attractive garden village of Port Sunlight, Merseyside, England, also created by Lord Lever, the gallery is famous for its British 18th-century and 19th-century paintings, 18th-century furniture and an outstanding collection of Wedgwood.

Port Sunlight was built by Lever Brothers to accommodate workers in its soap factory ( now part of Unilever ), work commenced in 1888.

In 1887, Lever Brothers began looking for a new site on which to expand its soap-making business, which was at that time based in Warrington.

Originally sponsored by Lorillard's Kent cigarettes in its first season, Scott Paper Company became the primary sponsor when the series moved to NBC in the fall of 1955, remaining as sponsor even after it moved back to CBS in September 1958, with Lever Brothers as an alternate sponsor from 1957 through 1960.

The Leverhulme Trust was established in 1925 under the will of the First Viscount Leverhulme, William Hesketh Lever, with the instruction that its resources should be used to support " scholarships for the purposes of research and education.

The Victorian businessman and entrepreneur, William Hesketh Lever first brought his creativity and energy to the manufacture and marketing of Sunlight soap which was being sold in 134 countries only a decade after its launch.

One special element in Viscount Leverhulme's legacy is the request that the Trustees all be drawn from the highest levels within Lever Brothers or now from its descendant Unilever plc.

Owned by the manufacturer Lever Brothers ( and its successor Unilever ), it served the company's factory at Port Sunlight.

Lever Brothers used its own fleet of barges and coasters to transport goods to and from other docks on the River Mersey and to the company's other factory site at Warrington via the Manchester Ship Canal.

Lever was a member of the Congregationalist Church and applied its ideals in his business life.

Andrew Pears had taken the lead in using art for marketing by buying paintings such as " Bubbles " by John Everett Millais to promote its products, which Lever also wanted to do.

It was established as a national museums group in 1986 and changed its name to National Museums Liverpool in 2003. currently comprises eight different venues, one of which is outside Liverpool itself — the Lady Lever Art Gallery, based on the Wirral.

William Lever and his brother James Darcy Lever invested in Watson's soap invention and its initial success came from offering bars of cut, wrapped, and branded soap in his father's grocery shop.

In 1995, in view of the growth potential of the frozen confections market, Kwality entered into an agreement with Lever, and has since been known by its current umbrella name.

For a description of the game of Nipsy and its association with Coal Miners please see the web site of Alan Lever.

The House of Lords case of Bell v Lever Brothers Ltd. established that common mistake can void a contract only if the mistake of the subject-matter was sufficiently fundamental to render its identity different from what was contracted, making the performance of the contract impossible.

Korex Don Valley assumed operations of the Lever Brothers Toronto plant.