Talk:Dove (toiletries)

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Hello Wiki community, this is Kathleen @Unilever with Dove in London, UK. After reading this Wiki entry, it has come to my attention that the page is somewhat incomplete of factual, and encyclopaedic detail around the company. It also has some now out of date information. I hope we can work together to present a more complete edition of this entry. I have not and will not edit the article without the community’s blessing. Particularly as I do not want to cause any reason to question the neutrality of this article. However, as an employee responsible for the Dove brand, I would like to provide historical detail regarding the company. I’ve compiled a few thoughts for potential additions to this posting, including links to 3rd party sources to help maintain factual accurac KRyan11 (talk) 09:43, 16 May 2014 (UTC)KRyan11


 * I think it is relevant to add to the lead section historical reference to the first product that launched Dove as a brand. This was in the United States, and was a cleansing bar called the ‘Beauty Bar’. Here is an article from the Telegraph referencing the creation date of the beauty bar:


 * I think it would add a good context to the entry to add a history section. Of course, this would be based from only factual detail and I leave it to the community on which information to display.

Details that strike me as being relevant to the entry are: The Dove trademark and brand name is currently owned by Unilever, which was formed in September 1929 by a merger of the operations of British soapmaker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie. Source - Harvard Business School


 * Dove is the English adaptation of Dutch soap powder trade name De Duif, a soap brand which originated in 1889 in Utrecht-Amersfoort in the Netherlands, originally under the name. Chr. Pleines Zeepfabrieken, later called "Zeepfabrieken de Duif".

Source - The 20 Ps of Marketing: A Complete Guide to Marketing Strategy, Page 75:


 * In 1885, British Manufacturers Lever Brothers launched a free-lathering soap named Honey Soap (later named Sunlight Soap).

Source - BBC, Sunlight soap launch:


 * By 1929, Lever Brothers were the third largest soap and glycerine manufacturer in the United States

Source - Cambridge History.org, Lever Brothers and in 1930 merged with Dutch company, Margarine Unie, forming Unilever. Dove as a brand came into existence when Unilever company bought De Duif, and launched the soap personal care products range in the United States with the translated brand trade name Dove. KRyan11 (talk) 09:43, 16 May 2014 (UTC)KRyan11

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IBX Updates
Hello pals,

I'd like to propose a change to this article's infobox.

Unilever is listed as the "Owner", but the IBX parameters found in the provided reference state:

"...is a subsidiary or division, omit the owner field and use the parent field instead"

If this doesn't cause any editor-friction, I'd like to circle back here soon and update the IBX myself!

Thank you to all!

ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Infobox_company#:~:text=num_employees%20also%20supplied.-,parent,-The%20name(s Dunkinidaho (talk) 00:39, 24 March 2024 (UTC)