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"Leher Turnerschaft is a German football club from the Lehe district of Bremerhaven in the state of Bremen. Founded in 1898, it plays in the Bremen- Liga in the fifth tier of the German football league system. In 2016–17, the team won the Bremen Cup for the first time, defeating Bremer SV 9–8 on penalties after a goalless draw in the final on 25 May. In doing so, the team qualified for the DFB-Pokal for the first time. In the first round on 12 August 2017, they hosted Bundesliga team 1. FC Köln at OSC Bremerhaven's Nordsee-Stadion and lost 5–0. References Category:1898 establishments in Germany Category:Association football clubs established in 1898 Category:Football clubs in Germany Category:Football clubs in Bremen (state) Category:Organisations based in Bremerhaven "
"PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc is a publicly listed Nigerian manufacturer and distributor of consumer products such as detergents, toiletries, soaps and home appliances. It is a subsidiary of Manchester based PZ Cussons Holdings which owns controlling shares in the firm. PZ trades home appliances products under the brand Haier Thermocool and manages Coolworld electrical stores. It has a joint venture with Wilmar International to produce and trade vegetable oil and palm oil. History The company's operations can be traced to the Sierra Leone based commodities and textile dealing partnership of George Paterson and George Zochonis. The partners who were of Scottish and Greek heritage established a West African trading post in Sierra Leone in 1879 which was later incorporated in Great Britain in February 1884 as Patterson Zochonis."The Trading Post Company Which Grew and Grew." Manchester: Financial Times Survey. Financial Times, 20 Jan. 1984, p. 19. The Financial Times Historical Archive In 1899, the partners opened a trading post in Nigeria and soon developed a merchandising network within the country. In the 1950s, the firm began producing soaps in Nigeria from a factory in Aba, incorporating it under a subsidiary called Alagbon Industries. In 1957, the group transferred assets not affiliated with its soap business to a newly incorporated company in Nigeria called Patterson Zochonis Nigeria Limited. Alagbon industries was later known as Associated Industries and then changed to Paterson Zochonis Industries Limited. It became publicly listed on the Nigerian Stock Exchange in 1972, selling 40% of its shares to the Nigerian public, additional 20% was sold in 1977. To increase revenues, it expanded its product line to include Thermocool appliances."Paterson, Zochonis & Company LTD." Financial Times, 8 Nov. 1957, p. 4. The Financial Times Historical Archive, Within the group's structure, PZ industrial division concentrated on toiletries, soaps and detergents manufacturing while Thermocool focused on refrigerators. PZ expanded its manufacturing business and commenced production of Elephant and Jet detergents in 1970s to challenge Omo produced by Lever Brothers.Financial Times (London, England), Nigeria: Financial Times Survey. Tuesday, November 30, 1982, Issue 28,939, p.XXVII In 1973, Thermocool refrigerators were assembled in Nigeria and the company invested in pharmaceutical manufacturing. The firm reduced its trading activities during the 1970s to focus on manufacturing. In 2003, the firm launched a joint venture with Glanbia group to produce evaporated milk and milk powder. This business was sold in 2019. Brands The firm has interest in beauty and personal care, baby products, bath products, oral care, health care, fragrances and skin care. *Ava *Canoe *Elephant *Florish *Joy *MORNIING FRESH *Nunu *Premier *Robb *Stella *Sweet 16 *Haier Thermocool *Venus *Venus de Milo References Category:Manufacturing companies based in Lagos "
"Keith Breckenridge is the South African professor of history at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a specialist in the cultural and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining industry, and development of information systems such as birth, marriage and death registration and identity verification systems. Early life Breckenridge is a graduate of the University of the Witwatersrand and Johns Hopkins University and completed his PhD at Northwestern University in 1995. Career Breckenridge is professor of history at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is a specialist in the cultural and economic history of South Africa, particularly the gold mining industry, and development of information systems such as birth, marriage and death registration and identity verification systems. With Simon Szreter he edited Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History which was published by Oxford University Press and The British Academy in 2012 as part of the proceedings of the British Academy based on a workshop held in Cambridge in 2010. In 2014, he published Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present, (Cambridge University Press, 2014) which was the inaugural winner of the Humanities Book Award of the Academy of Science of South Africa. Selected publications *Registration and Recognition: Documenting the Person in World History. Oxford University Press & The British Academy, 2012. (Edited with Simon Szreter) (Proceedings of the British Academy) *Biometric State: The Global Politics of Identification and Surveillance in South Africa, 1850 to the Present. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2014. References External links * Category:Living people Category:Year of birth missing (living people) Category:University of the Witwatersrand academics Category:Members of the Academy of Science of South Africa Category:Northwestern University alumni Category:University of the Witwatersrand alumni Category:Johns Hopkins University alumni "