The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-15
'b|G MILLION DOLLAR
 | COMPANY ID SELL TANLAC IN FUTURE
Business Has Grown in Six Years to One of the Larg- est of its Kind in the
 World
lily HARRISON VAUGHN.

Atlanta, Ga, January -(Special)- Announcement has just been made here of the organization of the International Proprietaries, Inc, to take over the business heretofore conducted by c. F. Willis, international distributor of Tan lac, and the Willis-McDuffie company, eastern distributors of this city. The new company has q paid in capi- tai of s1000,000 and is one of the ! largest proprietary medicine concerns in the world. The business of the cor poration will be conducted by the pres ent management, which owns the en- ] tire capital stock. It is understood l that no part of the stock will be of fered to the public.
 l The officers of the company are G. F. Willis, president; P. c. McDuffie, vice Lpresident: M. A. Crumley, treasurer; J. 1 c. Goodson, secretary.
 MT Willis is a prominent Atlanta business man and is well-known fig ure in the drug and advertising field l in both the United States and Canada Under the direction of MT. Willis, the | founder of the business, it has at taned it's present position in the very front rank of the countryss proprietary medicine industries.
 /, MT. McDuffie, who has been a big factor with MT. Willis in building UT 1 the business in the past five years, is a leading Atlanta citizen and business mar and is widely known to the drug trade throughout the country.
 | The new company. which is the logca ! outcome of the rapid growth and ex pansion of the business. will market q number of internationally advertised and tpharmaceutal products. including tonics aspirin tablets cold specifies, laxative | tablets, etc.
 SALE UNPRECEDENTED Tanlac, their principal product. is probably the most extensively advertised and the most largely sold proprietary medicine of it's kind in the world. ap- proximately 20o0 600 bottles having beer sold since it's introduction six years ago {, An instance of the rapid growth and development of the business with At lanta as principal headauarters is tn, statement that it's products are now ad vertised in more than 1000 newspaper. lin the United States and Canada, ant that the advertising appropriation fol this year will be in excess of S1 900 00O.
 The success and permanency of tn business is assured from the fact that
 has shown a rapid and substantial in lcrease each year since it's organization and the further fact that the bushes HOT the year Juot Pdct cuOWo 6n HI
 crease of approximately 90 per cent oyc lthe preceding year.
 BIG FOREIGN DEMAND
 To supply the demand for Tanlac, ltas been necessary to erect two grea imodern laboratories-one at Dayton, O. land the other at .WalkerviIle, Canada These laboratories represent the las word in modern construction and labore tory equipment. The two plants have combined floor space of approximatel, l7000o square feet, with combined dail.
 capacity of, ,60.0O0 bottles, Tanlac. whicl
 is a medicine of recognized therapeuti value and unouestioned merit. Is nov sold in practically every city. town ant hamlet throughout the United States ant
 Canada. In fact, it is a household wor' throughout America.
 The new company will not only un
 dertake the further expansion of th' . business in foreign countries, wher' there is a steadily increasing demand l but contemplates acquiring at an earl. Idate additional manufacturing facili ties in this country and Canada. Tn icompany is doing an annual bushes of from s5,00o.000 to $6.000, 900. witt an annual pay roll of approximatel, ] s250. 900. The executives and sales of fices occupy more than an entire foo of the Fourth National Bank building in this city.