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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: William Cooper Procter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
William Cooper Procter (1862 - 1934) was a U.S. British-born) candlemaker and industrialist.
William Procter, a candlemaker, and James Gamble, a soapmaker, formed the company known as Procter and Gamble in 1837.
William Cooper Procter was born on August 25, 1862, in Glendale, Ohio.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: William Procter   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Disambiguation William Procter was a US-based British candlemaker and industrialist.
Procter and Gamble follow their code of ethics by always trying to do the right thing, abiding the law, being honest and devoted to work, to each other and to the well being of the organization as well.
Procter and gamble company is a complex organization which produces different types of products especially that it distributes its products in 140 different countries, and its aim is to reach the taste of the consumer in every possible way.
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 Teale, Simpson, Sherwood, Tupper, Mayhew and Related Families - pafg76 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
Thomas Procter was born on 28 Jul 1820 in Lancashire, England.
William Edward Wilcock was born on 27 Jul 1879 in Euphrasia, Ont..
Overend Joseph William Loughead was born on 20 Jul 1878 in Euphrasia, Ont..
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 William Cooper Procter Summary
Procter's goal was to foster loyalty among the workers and to create incentives for all, in order to improve efficiency and to maximize profits.
Although Procter and his father were known to help those employees in need, Procter was aware that the employees remained limited in their ability to set aside a portion of their wages toward retirement.
Procter's plan, which was founded on a subjective appraisal at the discretion of company supervisors, failed to create the intended result because it lacked objectivity.
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 Sigma Xi: The Scientific Research Society: The William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Since 1950, the William Procter Prize for Scientific Achievement has been awarded annually to a scientist who has made an outstanding contribution to scientific research and has demonstrated an ability to communicate the significance of this research to scientists in other disciplines.
Presentation of the Procter Prize is traditionally a principal event at Sigma Xi's annual meeting, where the recipient delivers the Procter Prize Address.
William Procter, an heir of one of the founders of the Procter and Gamble Company, retired from a profitable investment business in 1920 to study entomology at Columbia University.
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 WowEssays.com - Study Of Procter And Gamble
Procter and Gamble then respect all individuals; consumers and their human resources, and offer them their trust, on condition that they treat them similarly.
Procter and Gamble company is committed to producing superior quality of goods and to producing products to refine the world's consumers.
Despite Procter and Gamble promises and reputable name, each year thousands of animals are the victims of the painful products tests, due to the massive doses of compounds and the irritating substances they experiment on their shaved abraded skin.
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 Teale, Simpson, Sherwood, Tupper, Mayhew and Related Families - pafg79 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
William James Procter [Parents] was born on 17 Sep 1866 in Meaford, Ont,..
William Samuel A. Procter [Parents] was born on 20 Mar 1896 in Caledon East, Ont..
William Joseph Procter was born on 23 Apr 1929.
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 Guide to the William Procter Papers : Finding Aid
William Procter was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on September 8, 1872.
Chiefly William Procter's records of laboratory and field observations of invertebrates, principally protozoa and various worms, with a notebook of mounted drawings of protozoa.
The papers of William Procter consist for the most part of records of laboratory and field observations of invertebrates, principally protozoa and various worms.
mssa.library.yale.edu /findaids/stream.php?xmlfile=mssa.ms.1049.xml   (414 words)

  
 Procter & Gamble Company - A Chance Meeting of Minds, The Civil War Years and Beyond
William Procter and James Gamble were strangers brought together by several twists of fate.
Procter was born in England and Gamble was born in Ireland.
To do so, Procter & Gamble became incorporated: it filed papers to be a public company, added "Inc." to its name, chose a board of directors, and installed officers such as president, vice president, and treasurer to run the business and answer to the board of directors.
referenceforbusiness.com /businesses/M-Z/Procter-Gamble-Company.html   (2695 words)

  
 Veteran of 'Great War' will be missed   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Procter, born in Mabel Lake, B.C., in 1899, died peacefully at the Oakside Manor residential care facility in Enderby, B.C. on Wednesday.
Procter was remembered as a man who was full of life: he went skydiving when he turned 100 and was still driving his car until the age 102.
Procter volunteered to fight at the age of 15, but due to his skill with horses, he was never sent into the trenches and he never fired a shot in anger.
www.cbc.ca /story/canada/national/2005/12/15/procter051215.html   (1398 words)

  
 P&G - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Yet, Procter and Gamble launched their new enterprise, more concerned about how to compete with the 14 other soap and candle makers in their city than with the financial panic shaking their country.
William Procter quickly established himself as a candlemaker.
William Cooper Procter wanted this program to help workers realize their vital roles in the Company's success.
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 Procter, William Cooper
William Cooper Procter was born in 1862, the only son of William Alexander and Charlotte Procter and the grandson of William Procter (1801-1884), a founder of Procter & Gamble.
As a third-generation Procter, young William Cooper (called "Cooper" to distinguish him from his father and grandfather) introduced many innovative changes to the P&G workplace during a time in U.S. history that was plagued by labor problems.
In 1890, when Procter & Gamble became a public company (meaning shares of the company were sold on the New York Stock Exchange), Cooper was appointed general manager and his father, William Alexander, was named the firm's first president.
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 Proctor and Gamble
Procter and Gamble Company (P&G) was founded by William Procter and James Gamble, in 1837.
With intentions of heading farther west than they managed, William Procter (emigrating from England), and James Gamble (emigrating from Ireland), settled in Cincinnati, the "Queen City of the West." Procter had a sick wife to look after, while Gamble had medical problems of his own to overcome.
William A. Procter, one of two sons of the founder, was then named the first president.
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 Procter & Gamble - About - History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
William Alexander Procter, son of the founder, was named first President.
But, like William Procter and James Gamble more than a century ago, the men and women of Procter and Gamble have their eyes on the future -- to continue to provide products of superior quality and value to the world's consumers.
But, like William Procter and James Gamble more than a century ago, the men and women of Procter and Gamble have their eyes on the future.
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 History of P&G;   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Several products were developed during the time period when William Procter's son, William Alexander Procter, took over the company (1890-1907.) William Cooper Procter began working in the company in 1883 and served as president of the company from 1907-1930.
William Cooper Procter was a pioneer in many labor relation reforms.
Procter and Gamble became the first American company to give half holidays on Saturdays and set up a profit-sharing plan in the same year.
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 H e a r t l a n d S c i e n c e - - The Ohio Academy of Science -
In 1837, William Procter and James Gamble formed a partnership in Cincinnati, Ohio to manufacture soap and candles.
Harley Procter, William's oldest son and his sales manager, named the new soap "Ivory." The story goes that he read the words "out of ivory palaces" in the Bible, and thought the name Ivory would be a good match for the white soap's purity, mildness, and long-lasting qualities.
William Procter, as a candlemaker, would have been unlikely to associate with James Gamble, who was apprenticed to a soapmaker.
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 The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
M.) WILLIAM PROCTER and ANN ROACH, spinster, otherwise ANN the wife of WILLIAM PROCTER, were indicted for stealing two bed curtains value 4 s.
the property of William Mears ; the said goods being in a certain lodging-room let by contract, by the said William Mears, to the said William Procter, March the 11th.
I let a lodging to William Procter about the latter end of December, and the things mentioned in the indictment were in the lodging about two hours after I let him the lodging; the woman came, and they staid about ten minutes.
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 Basenotes: Procter & Gamble
In 1837 William Procter, Candlemaker from England and James Gamble, a Soap maker from Ireland start their Soap and Candle making business, one of 14 business' in Cincinnati doing the same.
William Procter dies in 1907 and William Procter Jnr.
More recently the Procter and Gamble empire has grown with the acquisition of many beauty brands: In 1985 they acquire Richarson-Vicks (owners of skin care range, Oil of Ulay (Now Olay) and Hair care range, Pantene), In 1989, Noxell are purchased, adding the Cover Girl and Noxzema brands to the PandG lineup.
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 Procter of Bordley, Kirkby Malham, Long Preston
Anyone looking through the parish registers for Kirkby Malham, Rylstone, Burnsall, Linton and Long Preston will soon come across the family name of Procter/Proctor/Prockter and JW Morkill's "Parish of Kirkby Malhamdale" devotes ten whole pages to their history, which can be read here.
The various families (henceforward referred to as Procter) occupied a number of farmhouses particularly in the Bordley and Malham Moor areas and are variously referred to in the registers as gentlemen (until 1664/65), yeomen (from 1728/29), husbandmen (from 1732/33), and sometimes farmer (from 1774/75).
Extracts from this family tree have been made and illustrate the main lines that, for the most part, show the family to be descendants of Christopher Procter of Bleakbank (Bordley).
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 Excite -
Procter, a candle maker, and Gamble, a soap maker, formed their company with about $3500 a piece in 1837.
The company's research centers have churned out a remarkable string of successful innovations: Crisco, the first all-vegetable shortening (1911); Tide, the 'washing miracle' that was the nation's first synthetic laundry detergent (1946); Crest, the first toothpaste with fluoride clinically proven to fight cavities (1955); and Pampers, the first mass-produced disposable diaper (1961).
Procter & Gamble is equally concerned with the personal traits of its hires, and thus gives applicants a questionnaire designed to probe characteristics the company believes will predict job success.
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 TIME.com: Cincinnati Knighthood -- Jan. 30, 1928 -- Page 1
Procter, announced Chamber President Hutton, had been made an honorary member of the Cincinnati Chamber of Commerce for life, which some compared to a sort of municipal knighthood.† Mr.
Candlemaker William Procter was so honored in 1880 because he (with Soapmaker James Gamble) had founded a thriving soap industry at Cincinnati in 1837, also because he had battled for full weight in each package of merchandise.
In 1899, his son William A. Procter received his life membership because he was first president of the incorporated Procter & Gamble Co. Knighthood of a Procter in 1928 concerned science and philanthropy more, soap less.
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 William Procter (1856 - ....)
William Procter was the son of Thomas Procter and Mary ??????
William was born around 1856 in Meanwood, Leeds, Yorkshire.
William was 28 years old and Sophia was 27 years old when they married.
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 William C(ooper) Procter Biography - Biography.com
In 1890 the firm Procter & Gamble incorporated with William C as general manager and the company boomed.
(It was William C's brother Harley Procter, however, who is credited with devising the advertising and marketing campaigns that would make Ivory Soap the leader in its field.) By 1934 it counted seven factories, including locations in England and Canada.
William C became company president (1907) and instituted many labour reforms, such as half-holidays on Saturdays (1887), profit sharing, and pensions.
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 The Officer Down Memorial Page Remembers . . .
Deputy Procter died of a gunshot wound he revived after responding to a shoplifting call at a grocery store.
Deputy Procter was removed to the hospital where he died two weeks later of his wound.
Deputy Procter had served with the LaFourche Parish Sheriff's Department for 2 years and was survived by his two daughters.
www.odmp.org /officer.php?oid=10871   (138 words)

  
 William Procter (candlemaker) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Procter was a US-based English candlemaker and industrialist.
He was the co-founder and co-eponym of Procter and Gamble Company in 1837, along with James Gamble.
This page was last modified 16:42, 15 June 2006.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Procter_(candlemaker)   (66 words)

  
 William Cooper Procter
He was the grandson of William Procter, who established Procter and Gamble in 1837, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
William Cooper Procter established a profit-sharing program -- the first in United States history -- for the company's workforce in 1887.
Procter also pioneered in the area of market research, investigating consumer needs and product appeal.
www.ohiohistorycentral.org /entry.php?rec=311   (311 words)

  
 Welcome To PDE - Newsletters   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
The Procter Medal Award of the PDE bears the name of the Father of American Pharmacy, William Procter, Jr.
An early leader in drug research, Professor Procter held one of the first chairs of Pharmacy in America, at the Philadelphia College of Pharmacy and Science, now the University of the Sciences in Philadelphia's Philadelphia College of Pharmacy.
Because of his inspired contribution to the development of American Pharmacy, the PDE in 1945 inaugurated its award in his name, to be presented in the permanent form of a gold medal (shown above) and citation.
www.pdetrade.org /ProcterMedal.asp   (138 words)

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