By United States War Dept., Stephen E. Ambrose
"What impresses me so much approximately this publication is what it tells us concerning the U.S. military and warfare division in international struggle II. No different military in historical past has ever recognized its enemy in addition to the yank military knew the German military whilst the americans crossed the Rhine River and commenced their ultimate offensive. The British had fought the Germans longer, the Russians had fought extra of them, so their collective adventure used to be more than that of the americans. yet they'd now not systematically collected the data, placed it so as, and released it. This quantity is exclusive and useful past measure." -Stephen E. Ambrose from his creation
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Through Lever’s acquisition of Crosfield in 1919 Unilever had eventually become the owner of the Persil brand in the British Empire. The perborate powder trade in Germany, however, was completely in the hands of Henkel. In the 1920s Henkel and Unilever had made an agreement about the division of the perborate powder trade in Europe. Unilever’s soap powder brand Radion, as a consequence, was not marketed in Germany before the Second World War. Henkel had also followed the growth strategy of vertical and horizontal integration.
The figures of Royal Dutch/Shell Group, however, are a flagrant underestimation. The Dutch parent owned 60 per cent of the shares and the British 40 per cent, but it was only in 1951 that the Group started to consolidate the value of its main subsidiaries. 3 Largest manufacturing firms in Europe, 1929–1930 (in million pounds sterling) Company Registered office Share capital Total assets Unilever Group Imperial Chemical Industries Royal Dutch/Shell Group IG Farben Imperial Tobacco Co. 3 Sources: Youssef Cassis, Big Business: The European Experience in the Twentieth Century (Oxford: OUP, 1997) 240–266; Royal Dutch Company for the Working of Petroleum Wells in the Netherlands Indies, Report for 1930; Lever Brothers & Unilever NV and Limited Annual Reports and Statements of Account, 1930.
64 Although the company was searching for other possibilities at the end of the 1930s – it operated over 500 businesses in more than 40 countries – Britain, the Netherlands and Germany still formed Unilever’s stronghold and operating base. Especially the Netherlands and Britain, the parent countries, were of great importance as regards both production and the management of the company. 1 Sales of margarine, edible fats and soap in Unilever’s most important markets in 1938 (in ’000 metric tons) Britain Germany The Netherlands France Belgium Czechoslovakia Source: UAR, His 114, 1091.