Lever Brothers

Lever Brothers
	Lever House in Port Sunlight, Wirral, Merseyside, the former headquarters of Lever Brothers
Industry	Consumer Goods
Founded	1884 in Warrington, England
Founders	William Hesketh Lever; James Darcy Lever
Defunct	1930
Fate	Merged with Margarine Unie
Successor	Unilever
Brands	Sunlight; Lifebuoy; Lux; Vim
Number of employees	250,000 (1930)
Parent	Unilever
Subsidiaries	Curtis Davis Company; Huileries du Congo Belge; A&F Pears; Gossage's; Watson's; Crosfield's; Hazlehurst & Sons; Hudson's

Lever Brothers was a British manufacturing company founded in 1885 by two brothers: William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme (1851–1925), and James Darcy Lever (1854–1916). They invested in and successfully promoted a new soap-making process invented by chemist William Hough Watson. Lever Brothers entered the United States market in 1895 and acquired Mac Fisheries, owner of T. Wall & Sons, in 1925. Lever Brothers was one of several British companies that took an interest in the welfare of its British employees. Its brands included Lifebuoy, Lux and Vim. Lever Brothers merged with Margarine Unie to form Unilever in 1929.^[1]

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