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Candles Ltd, soap, candle and lubricating oil manufacturers of London and Wirral

1919 Lever Brothers bought Prices Patent Candle Co

1922 Lever Brothers entered into an agreement with what are now Shell, BP and Burmah Oil Co to create a new jointly-owned company, Candles Ltd, to take over Price's and all its subsidiary companies.

1936 Unilever, through its UK operation Lever Brothers, sold out of Candles Ltd but keeping the Bromborough works and all the soap manufacturing rights. It continued to develop Bromborough for its specialist fatty acid production.

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