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maxerickson on Aug 21, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple Is Not The Most Valuable Company In The Hist...

I'm playing wiki-facts here, but Unilever bought one of the breakup companies in 1987. The Unilever conglomerate established itself very much without being part of Standard Oil.

D_Alex on Aug 22, 2012 [–]

I checked up and you are quite correct. Unilever bought Ponds which in turn grew out of a vaseline manufacturer previously owned by Standard Oil.

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