found: Colgate WWW home page, Sept. 21, 1999(Colgate & Company founded 1806 by William Colgate as starch, soap, and candle business in NYC; Peet Brothers, a soap company, founded in Kansas City in 1872; Colgate operations moved to Jersey City in 1910 and ca. this time name shortened to Colgate Company; Palmolive Soap introduced by B.J. Johnson Soap Company in 1898; in 1916 the latter changed name to Palmolive Company; in 1926 Palmolive Company and Peet Brothers merged to form Palmolive-Peet Company; in 1928 Colgate Company merged with Palmolive-Peet Company to become Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Company; in 1953 present name adopted: Colgate-Palmolive Company)
