Sauer & Sohn
J. P. Sauer und Sohn GmbH( Sauer& Sohn) is a manufacturer of firearms and machinery and is the oldest firearms manufacturer still active in Germany.
The products of this company are frequently referred to as Sauer.
United Africa Company
The United Africa Company( UAC) was a British company which principally traded in West Africa during the 20th century.
The United Africa Company was formed in 1929 as a result of the merger of The Niger Company, which had been effectively owned by Lever Brothers since 1920, and the African& Eastern Trade Corporation.
In the early 1930s the United Africa Company was nearly reduced to bankruptcy and as a result it came under the control of Unilever which had just been formed.
Unilever had only been created from the merger of Lever Brothers and the Dutch Margarine Union earlier on 3 March 1929.
The United Africa Company continued as subsidiary of Unilever until 1987 when it was absorbed by the parent company.
Brothers and Sisters
Brothers and Sisters may refer to:
St. Croix Soap Manufacturing Company
The St. Croix Soap Manufacturing Company was a Canadian business founded in 1878 in St. Stephen, New Brunswick by brothers James and Gilbert Ganong and Freeman H. Todd.
The brothers had earlier founded the Ganong confectionery company and in 1884 dissolved their partnerships with the result that James became sole proprietor of the soap making business.
The name is derived from the St. Croix River on whose banks the town of St. Stephen is located.
James Ganong died unexpectedly at the age of forty- seven and his son Edwin took over the running of the business.
The St. Croix Soap Manufacturing Company was best known for its" Surprise Soap" that became a national brand which lasted until 1946.
Advertising helped sell the company's products such as the innovative 1894 publishing of" The Surprise Cook Book", a recipe collection by the then widely popular American writer Marion Harland.
It was formally registered as" The Premium Cook Book", the title used by the American Technical Book Company who published it in the United States.
The book was reprinted in 1990 by the Atlantic- New England Heritage Committee.
In 1913, Edwin Ganong sold the St. Croix Soap Manufacturing Company to Lever Brothers of Toronto, Ontario, a subsidiary of the British conglomerate.
Ganong became president of Lever Brothers and moved to Toronto where he remained until his death in 1944.
Two years later, Lever Brothers Ltd. closed the St. Stephen plant.
Sir D'Arcy Cooper, 1st Baronet
Sir Francis D'Arcy Cooper, 1st Baronet( 17 November 1882 – 18 December 1941) was a British businessman and accountant.
He was chairman of Lever Brothers and Unilever.
SIG Sauer
SIG Sauer is the brand name used by two sister companies involved in the design and manufacture of firearms.
The original company, SIG Sauer GmbH, is a German company, formed in 1976 as a partnership between Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG) of Switzerland and J.P. Sauer & Sohn of Germany.
SIG (now known as SIG Combibloc Group) no longer has any firearms business.
Their firearms subsidiary, SIG Arms AG, was sold to L&O Holding of Emsdetten, North Rhine-Westphalia in western Germany and was renamed Swiss Arms.
L&O Holding is currently the parent company of SIG Sauer GmbH.
A separate company was founded in Newington, New Hampshire in 1985 with the name SIGARMS to import and distribute SIG Sauer firearms into the United States.
This company was renamed SIG Sauer Inc. in 2007 and since 2000 has been organizationally separate from SIG Sauer GmbH.
Lever Brothers
Lever Brothers was a British manufacturing company founded in 1885 by brothers William Hesketh Lever( 1851–1925) and James Darcy Lever( 1854–1916).
They invested in and successfully promoted a new soap- making process invented by chemist William Hough Watson.
In 1930, Lever Brothers merged with Margarine Unie to form Unilever.
Mac Fisheries
Mac Fisheries was a branded United Kingdom retail chain of fishmongers, founded by William Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme, the co-founder with his brother of Lever Brothers, which later merged to become Unilever.
Rinso
Rinso is a brand name of laundry soap and detergent marketed by Unilever.
The brand was created by Robert S Hudson and originally branded Hudson's Soap, which was sold to Lever Brothers of Port Sunlight, England, in 1908.
It was introduced in the United States by Lever Brothers Company in 1918.
The Eve Arden Show
The Eve Arden Show is a 26- episode American sitcom which aired during the 1957- 1958 season on CBS, alternately sponsored by Lever Brothers and Shulton, Inc.( Old Spice).

Question: Are both businesses, Lever Brothers and Sauer & Sohn, located in the same country?
Answer: no