DESCRIPTION OF ITEM: ADVERTISING POSTER FOR GERHARD MENNEN'S TALCUM POWDER - NEWARK, NEW JERSEY - SHOWING A CUTE LITTLE CADDY BOY WITH HIS TRIO OF MEN PLAYING A ROUND OF GOLF AT THE COUNTRY CLUB. A GREAT HISTORIC ADVERTISING PIECE WHICH WOULD GREAT FRAMED IN YOUR VINTAGE BATHROOM! The Mennen Company was founded in 1878 by Gerhard Heinrich Mennen, an immigrant to America from Germany. His first product was a borated talcum-based powder, an innovation at the time. The company was originally located in Newark, New Jersey, US, moving to Morristown, New Jersey, in 1953, where it manufactured and sold over-the-counter pharmaceuticals and personal products such as the Skin Bracer, Speed Stick, and Baby Magic products. Lady Speed Stick was a foray into the women's market, and was a huge success due to its shape, which fit a woman's hand, and fragrances. Gerhard's grandson, G. Mennen Williams, served as Governor of Michigan 1949–1961 and as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson 1961–1966. The company was led by several generations of the Mennen family before being sold to Colgate-Palmolive Company in 1992. Today none of the Mennen family is involved in the company or its current parent. The former headquarters and manufacturing plant in Morris Township, New Jersey, was demolished in spring 2018 and replaced with housing developments and retail space. Next to it remains the Mennen Arena, a multi-purpose sports facility often used for hockey and public ice skating. At Harpers Ferry National Historical Park, there is a giant advertisement painted on the rock face of Maryland Heights. While faded and indistinct today, it reads "Mennen's Borated Talcum Toilet Powder" and was painted between 1903 and 1906. Mennen is a brand owned in most parts of the world by the Colgate-Palmolive Company. Its most notable product, Mennen Speed Stick, with its fougère perfume and green wide stick, was the US market leader among deodorants and antiperspirants for men for many years. It was also noted for its Lady Speed Stick deodorant and Teen Spirit deodorant, which was the leader in teenage girls' deodorants during the early 1990s. In France, the Mennen branding is owned by L'Oréal through its Mennen-LASCAD subsidiary, for a line of men's grooming products.
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SIZE OF POSTER PRINT - 12 X 18 INCHES
DATE OF ORIGINAL PRINT, POSTER OR ADVERT - 1906
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