Grace's Guide To British Industrial History

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Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 167,676 pages of information and 247,074 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Grace's Guide is the leading source of historical information on industry and manufacturing in Britain. This web publication contains 147,919 pages of information and 233,587 images on early companies, their products and the people who designed and built them.

Tide

From Graces Guide
July 1954.
Advertising sign.

Tide is manufactured by Procter and Gamble.

It quickly gained dominance in the detergent market, dwarfing the sales of other Procter and Gamble products, such as Ivory Snow, as well as the competition from Rinso. The latter two were soap powders and flakes.

1946 First introduced in test markets.

1949 National distribution reached, Tide was voted as "America's Washday Favourite."

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