The Man Behind The Brand - In The Bathroom

Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Kraft, Maytag, Hertz, Kellogg, Gerber. Nowhere to be found. How many names are more famous than Howard Johnson? Milton Bradley? Oscar Mayer? But who were these folks? Let’s take a look at the men behind the names we see on our bathroom.

Bausch and Lomb
Braun
Breck
Cannon
Colgate
Gillette
Jergens
Johnson & Johnson
Kimberly Clark
Kohler
Mennen
Schick
Dr. Scholl's
Scott's