Vim (cleaning product)
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- This article is about the Vim line of cleaning products; for other meanings, see Vim (disambiguation).
Vim is the name of a range of household cleaning products originally produced by Lever Brothers.[1] The Vim brand is currently owned by European multi-national Spotless Group.
[edit] History
Vim scouring powder, one of the first products created by William Lever, first appeared on the market in 1904, an offshoot of Monkey Brand scouring soap. The name is thought to derive from the colloquial English word "vim" which has the same meaning as the Latin vis, vim ("force", "vigour").[2]
Vim was produced at Port Sunlight near Liverpool, England. The name Vim remained solely associated with the scouring powder until 1993 when a range of associated products was released.
Former owner Unilever abandoned Vim in favour of rival product Jif, although it was still sold in some other European countries. In 2004 it was sold to the Italian Guaber group.[3] Vim is currently owned by Spotless Group, the largest independent company in the European homecare market.
[edit] Applications
The artist Francis Bacon is reputed to have used Vim as a substitute for toothpaste.[4]
[edit] Notes
- ^ Vim at Unilever's Consumer Canada website
- ^ Room, Adrian (1983). Dictionary of Trade Name Origins. Routledge. 184. ISBN 0710201745.
- ^ "New Vim & vigour", Sunday Mirror, 5 December 2004, http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_qn4161/is_20041205/ai_n12913746
- ^ http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/09/bacon.art
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