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Reckitt & Colman
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Company with a wide range of domestic products, resulting from the merger in 1954 of two 19C British family firms which were household names. Isaac Reckitt (1792–1862) was a *Quaker miller, based in Hull, who diversified in the 1850s from his main product, starch; black grate polish and 'Reckitt's Blue' (to make the laundry white) were early products, to which his descendants added others of a similarly homely kind such as Brasso and Dettol. From 1814 Jeremiah Colman (1777–1855) was milling mustard near Norwich, an activity which his family developed with such success that in England mustard and Colman became synonymous. A third company, merged with the other two in 1955, was Chiswick Products, which since 1886 had been making soap and then Cherry Blossom Shoe polish at Chiswick, in west London.
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