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of Welwyn Garden City.
c.1900 Beiersdorf AG invented Nivea cream[1]
1951 Smith and Nephew acquired shares in Herts Pharmaceuticals from the Custodian of Enemy Property[2]
Also see Lassolastic.
1956 Absorbed into T. J. Smith and Nephew
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