Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-01-14
ST., 100000 Concern To Market
rTanlac Throughout The World
Business Has Grown FIR ON Small Beginning ST.,
Years Ago Until Now It Is One Of the Largest
In tn 9 World
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ATLANTA. Jan, 14,-Announce-
ment has just been made here Of The
organization Of the international
Proprietaries, Inc, to take over the
business heretofore conducted by G.
F. Willis, International Distributor
of Tanlac, and the Willis-McDuffie
Company, Eastern Distributors, of
this city.
The new company has a paid-in
capital of One Million Dollars and is
one of the largest proprietary medi-
cine concerns in the world The
business Of the corporation will be
conducted by the present manage
ment, which owns the entire capital
stock. 1t is understood that no part
of the stock will be offered to the
public.
The officers of the company arc
c.. F. Willis, president; P. c. Me
Duffic, president; M. A. Crum-
ley, treasurer; j. c. Goodson, sccre-
tary.
Mr.. Willis is a prominent Atlanta
business man and is well known
figure in the drug and advertising
field in both the United States and
Canada. Under the direction Of Mr.
Willis, the founder of the business, it
has attained It's present position in
the very front rank of the country's
proprietary medicine industries.
Mr. McDuffie, who has been big
factor with Mr.. Willis in building up
the business in the past five years,
is a leading Atlanta citizen and bU5l-
ness man and is widely known to the
drug trade throughout the country.
The new company, which is the
logical outcome of the rapid growth
and expansion Of the business, will
market a number of internationally
advertised and internationally sold
proprietary and pharmaceutal prod
ucts, including TONES, Aspirin Tab
lets, Cold Specifics, Laxative Tab
lets, etc.
Sale Unprecedented.
Tanlac, their pricipal product, is
probably the most extensively adver-
tiscd and the most largely sold pro-
prictary medicine of its kind in the
world, approximately 100000 bot
/ ties having been sold since its intro
| duc5ion six years ago.
An instance Of the rapid growth
! and development Of the business with
| Atlanta as principal headquarters is
! the statement that its products are
now advertised in more than seven
thousand newspapers in the United
States and Canada, and that the ad-
vertising appropriation for this year
will be in excess of One Million Dol
! lars.
The success and permanency Of the
business is assured from the fact that
| it has shown rapid and substantial
increase each year since it's organ
ization, and the further fact that the
business of the year just past shows
an increase of approximately 80 per
cent over the preceding year.
Big Foreign Demand.
TO supply the demand for Tanlac
it has been necessary to erect two
! great modern Laboratories-one at
Dayton, Ohio, and the other at Walk
erville, Canada. These Laboratories
represent the last word in modern
construction and laboratory equip
ment. The two plants have COM
! bined floor space Of approximately
! 10000 square feet, with a combined
( daily capacity of $4,000 zottles. Tan
lac, which is medicine of recog-
nized therapeutic value and unques-
toned merit, is now sold in practi-
cally every city, town and hamlet
throughout the United States and
Canada. In fact, it is a household
word THROUGHOUT America.
The new company will not only
undertake the further expansion Of
| the business in foreign countries
where there is a steadily increasing
demand, but contemplates acquiring
at an early date additional manufac-
turing facilities in this country and
| Canada. The company is doing an
annual business of from %5,000,00O