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and Luxor. Robert
Augustus Chesebrough, a chemist who started the company, was interested in marketing oil products for medicinal use. He produced the first petroleum jelly by refining rod wax, a paraffin-like substance that formed on oil drilling rigs, using heat and filtration. He named the
284:. Earnings increased from $ 8.36 per share in 1925 to $ 13.22 during 1929. As of December 31, 1940, the Chesebrough Manufacturing Company had total assets of $ 4,267,940 and liabilities of $ 603,643. In 1940, damage to its London plant from a
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In 1870, Robert
Chesebrough began selling a product derived from petroleum residue, the "Vaseline Petroleum Jelly". Chesebrough's first manufacturing plant for vaseline was in
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The company had a productive record of earnings and dividend disbursements, even after the onset of the
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merged in June 1955 and, in 1987, Chesebrough-Ponds was acquired by the
British consumer goods company
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in 1955 to form "Chesebrough-Pond's Inc.", then acquired by
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672:Oliver Hazard Payne
641:Stephen V. Harkness
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727:Vacuum Oil
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207:) and the
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692:Successor
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109:Successor
44:Petroleum
902:Category
840:Lawsuits
702:Atlantic
614:Founders
482:Archived
373:(2008).
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224:Unilever
196:Vaseline
131:Vaseline
117:Products
102:Unilever
40:Industry
912:Commons
879:Big Oil
867:Related
783:(Sohio)
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