Armand Hammer OR Arm and Hammer? Or both?

[panader0]

From wiki:
This article is about the brand. For the American industrialist, see Armand Hammer.

Arm & Hammer

Arm & Hammer logo.svg

Product type
Baking Soda products


Website
armandhammer.com

Arm & Hammer is a registered trademark of Church & Dwight, an American manufacturer of household products. The logo of this brand is a muscular arm holding a hammer. Originally associated only with baking soda and washing soda, the company began to expand the brand to other products in the 1970s using baking soda as a deodorizing ingredient, including toothpaste, laundry detergent, underarm deodorant, and cat litter. The Arm & Hammer brand is one of the longest-running and most recognized U.S. trademarks.



The Arm & Hammer logo dates back to the 1860s. James A. Church ran a spice business known as Vulcan Spice Mills. According to the company, the Arm and Hammer logo represents Vulcan, the Roman god of fire and metalworking.[1]

It is often claimed that the brand name originated with tycoon Armand Hammer; however, the Arm & Hammer brand was in use 31 years before Hammer was born. Hammer was so often asked about the Church & Dwight brand, however, that he attempted to buy the company. While unsuccessful, Hammer's Occidental Petroleum in 1986 acquired enough stock for him to join the Church & Dwight board of directors. Hammer remained one of the owners of Arm & Hammer until his 1990 death.[2]

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. Fascinating....had no idea.

thanks for this tidbit..

[Brother Buzz]

2. Armand Hammer's autobiography is a fascinating read

From pharmaceuticals to pencils, from booze to beef, the medical doctor who never practiced medicine had the Midas touch. His one mistake was Occidental Petroleum; he and his wife invested in a California wildcat drilling company for a tax shelter as they were approaching retirement, then Occidental struck the Mother of all gas fields in California's Central Valley....and the rest is history.