Reckitt & Sons Ltd
Other Business Names:
- Reckitt, Isaac
- Reckitt, Sir James
- Reckitt & Son
- Chiswick Polish Co Ltd
- Chiswick Soap & Polish Co Ltd
- Ferens, Thomas R
- Garden Village (Hull) Ltd
- Dettol
- Colman, J & J, Ltd
- Reckitt & Colman Ltd
- Reckitt & Colman Holdings Ltd
- Benckiser NV
- Reckitt Benckiser NV
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Hull, City of Kingston upon Hull, Humberside, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
Sectors:
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Chemical production
Cleaning preparations production
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Food & tobacco processing
Grain milling inc flour, starch & glucose products
Notes:
Traced origins to 1840 when established by Isaac Reckitt, corn miller, as a starch manufacturer. Developed into a major household products business by his son (Sir) James Reckitt, 1833-1924. Initially manufactured starch and later washing blue and metal and shoe polish. From 1840s known as Reckitt & Son. Incorporated as Reckitt & Sons Ltd in 1879 and floated as a public company in 1888. 1913 established Chiswick Polish Co Ltd as a joint venture with Chiswick Soap & Polish Co Ltd. Thomas R Ferens, senior executive from 1870s and chairman from 1924. Model housing established for workers via Garden Village (Hull) Ltd. Developed well known brands such as the antiseptic and disinfectant, Dettol which was marketed from 1932. 1912 first associated with J & J Colman Ltd of Norwich also, inter alia, starch manufacturers, and merged with them 1938 to form Reckitt & Colman Ltd. 1954 reconstructed as Reckitt & Colman Holdings Ltd. 1995 Colman food activities sold to Unilever Plc. 1999 merged with Benckiser NV to form Reckitt Benckiser NV
Publications:
- A mark of distinction. Branding and trade mark law in the UK from the 1860s by Mercer, John
- A Memoir by W H Wilatt, 1868-1942, of a Career at Earle's and Later at Reckitts by Wilatt, W H
- Aspects of Hull Garden Village by Pietrusiak, Jane
- Cleanliness next to godliness. Christians in the Victorian starch industry by Church, Roy, & Christine Clark
- Family, Religion and Enterprise in the Nineteenth Century. The provincial entrepreneur and the rise of a family manufacturing firm. The Reckitt family of Lincolnshire and Kingston upon Hull by Jenkins, Bessie R
- Garden Village, Hull. A history by Reckitt, Basil N
- History and Development of Dettol by Unknown
- History of Reckitt & Sons Ltd by Reckitt, Basil N
- 'Kingston Biscuit Works and starch, blue and blacklead manufactory' in G Measom, Official Illustrated Guide to North Eastern; North British; Edinburgh & Glasgow; Scottish Central; Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee; Scottish North Eastern; and Great North of Scotland Railways by Measom, George
- Known to the Night. Reckitts' factory and the Great War, 1914-1918 by Barnes, B S
- Life and Times of Sir James Reckitt by Harper, Victoria
- Local philanthropy of the Reckitt family, with particular reference to Hull Garden Village by Pietrusiak, Jane
- Origins of competitive advantage in the marketing of branded packaged consumer goods. Colman's and Reckitt's in early Victorian Britain by Church, Roy, & Christine Clark
- Outline Investigation into the Life and Work of Thomas Robinson Ferens, 1847-1930 by Black, Mona S
- Product development of branded, packaged household goods in Britain, 1870-1914. Colman's, Reckitt's and Lever Brothers by Church, Roy, & Christine Clark
- Purposive strategy or serendipity? Development and diversification in three consumer product companies, 1918-1939. J & J Colman, Reckitt & Sons and Lever Brothers/Unilever by Church, Roy, & Christine Clark
- Reckitt & Sons by Unknown
- Roll of Honour, World War 1 by Unknown
- Salesmen and the transformation of selling in Britain and the US in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Church, Roy
- Sir James Reckitt. A memoir by Chapman-Huston, Desmond
- This Incarnation; being recollections of W H Willatt. A memoir of William Henry Willatt (1868-1942) of career at Earles ... and later at Reckitts by Unknown
- Ultramarine. A case study in the relationship between industry, science and technology with particular reference to the firm of Reckitt & Sons and their successors by Chicken, Eric
- Welfare Work of Reckitt & Sons Ltd by Unknown
Groups:
Other Business Names:
- Reckitt, Isaac
- Reckitt, Sir James
- Reckitt & Son
- Chiswick Polish Co Ltd
- Chiswick Soap & Polish Co Ltd
- Ferens, Thomas R
- Garden Village (Hull) Ltd
- Dettol
- Colman, J & J, Ltd
- Reckitt & Colman Ltd
- Reckitt & Colman Holdings Ltd
- Benckiser NV
- Reckitt Benckiser NV
Locations city-town / local authority / county1974 / region-state / country:
- Hull, City of Kingston upon Hull, Humberside, Yorkshire & the Humber, England
Sectors:
- Chemical production Cleaning preparations production
- Food & tobacco processing Grain milling inc flour, starch & glucose products
Notes:
Traced origins to 1840 when established by Isaac Reckitt, corn miller, as a starch manufacturer. Developed into a major household products business by his son (Sir) James Reckitt, 1833-1924. Initially manufactured starch and later washing blue and metal and shoe polish. From 1840s known as Reckitt & Son. Incorporated as Reckitt & Sons Ltd in 1879 and floated as a public company in 1888. 1913 established Chiswick Polish Co Ltd as a joint venture with Chiswick Soap & Polish Co Ltd. Thomas R Ferens, senior executive from 1870s and chairman from 1924. Model housing established for workers via Garden Village (Hull) Ltd. Developed well known brands such as the antiseptic and disinfectant, Dettol which was marketed from 1932. 1912 first associated with J & J Colman Ltd of Norwich also, inter alia, starch manufacturers, and merged with them 1938 to form Reckitt & Colman Ltd. 1954 reconstructed as Reckitt & Colman Holdings Ltd. 1995 Colman food activities sold to Unilever Plc. 1999 merged with Benckiser NV to form Reckitt Benckiser NVPublications:
- A mark of distinction. Branding and trade mark law in the UK from the 1860s by Mercer, John
- A Memoir by W H Wilatt, 1868-1942, of a Career at Earle's and Later at Reckitts by Wilatt, W H
- Aspects of Hull Garden Village by Pietrusiak, Jane
- Cleanliness next to godliness. Christians in the Victorian starch industry by Church, Roy, & Christine Clark
- Family, Religion and Enterprise in the Nineteenth Century. The provincial entrepreneur and the rise of a family manufacturing firm. The Reckitt family of Lincolnshire and Kingston upon Hull by Jenkins, Bessie R
- Garden Village, Hull. A history by Reckitt, Basil N
- History and Development of Dettol by Unknown
- History of Reckitt & Sons Ltd by Reckitt, Basil N
- 'Kingston Biscuit Works and starch, blue and blacklead manufactory' in G Measom, Official Illustrated Guide to North Eastern; North British; Edinburgh & Glasgow; Scottish Central; Edinburgh, Perth & Dundee; Scottish North Eastern; and Great North of Scotland Railways by Measom, George
- Known to the Night. Reckitts' factory and the Great War, 1914-1918 by Barnes, B S
- Life and Times of Sir James Reckitt by Harper, Victoria
- Local philanthropy of the Reckitt family, with particular reference to Hull Garden Village by Pietrusiak, Jane
- Origins of competitive advantage in the marketing of branded packaged consumer goods. Colman's and Reckitt's in early Victorian Britain by Church, Roy, & Christine Clark
- Outline Investigation into the Life and Work of Thomas Robinson Ferens, 1847-1930 by Black, Mona S
- Product development of branded, packaged household goods in Britain, 1870-1914. Colman's, Reckitt's and Lever Brothers by Church, Roy, & Christine Clark
- Purposive strategy or serendipity? Development and diversification in three consumer product companies, 1918-1939. J & J Colman, Reckitt & Sons and Lever Brothers/Unilever by Church, Roy, & Christine Clark
- Reckitt & Sons by Unknown
- Roll of Honour, World War 1 by Unknown
- Salesmen and the transformation of selling in Britain and the US in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Church, Roy
- Sir James Reckitt. A memoir by Chapman-Huston, Desmond
- This Incarnation; being recollections of W H Willatt. A memoir of William Henry Willatt (1868-1942) of career at Earles ... and later at Reckitts by Unknown
- Ultramarine. A case study in the relationship between industry, science and technology with particular reference to the firm of Reckitt & Sons and their successors by Chicken, Eric
- Welfare Work of Reckitt & Sons Ltd by Unknown