First ad on Radio Luxemburg 1930s for Bile Beans - which are what?
"artworks to the museum at Temple Newsam. Bile Beans Bile Beans was a laxative and tonic first marketed in the 1890s. The product supposedly contained substances extracted from a hitherto unknown vegetable source by a fictitious chemist known as Charles Forde. In the early years Bile Beans were marketed as ""Charles Forde's Bile Beans for Biliousness"", and sales relied heavily on newspaper advertisements. Among other cure-all claims, Bile Beans promised to ""disperse unwanted fat"" and ""purify and enrich the blood"". Although the manufacturer claimed that the formula for Bile Beans was based on a vegetable source known only to Aboriginal"
"1930s and also freely distributed. By that time advertising for Bile Beans had become increasingly targeted at women, promising them health, bright eyes and a slim figure if taken regularly. When Radio Luxembourg started longwave commercial radio broadcasts in English in 1933, its first advertisers were Fulford's Bile Beans and Zam-Buk. During the 1940s newspaper advertising was supplemented by a poster campaign. Aimed at maintaining high levels of purchasing by women, the posters featured young ladies dressed to participate in various activities, including horse riding, swimming and hiking; the designs were the work of S. H. Benson, a London advertising"
"oil, 1.8% camphor, 0.5% thyme oil, and 0.65% sassafras oil. A 1908 report published in ""The British Medical Journal"" estimated that the cost of ingredients for a standard box was one farthing, yet its retail price was 1s 1½ d, a markup of 5,200%, equivalent to a gross margin of more than 98%. When Radio Luxembourg started longwave commercial radio broadcasts in English in 1933, its first advertisers were Fulford's Zam-Buk and Bile Beans. The Zam-Buk brand and trademark were eventually acquired by Fisons, but production ceased in 1994 after the business was sold to Rhone-Poulenc; the product was revived"
"rhubarb, liquorice and menthol, were commonly found in pharmacies of the period. A court case initiated in Scotland in 1905 found that the Bile Bean Manufacturing Company's business was based on a fraud and conducted fraudulently, but Bile Beans continued to be sold until the 1980s nevertheless. Charles Edward Fulford (1870–1906) and Ernest Albert Gilbert (1875–1905) first sold Bile Beans in Australia in late 1897, marketed as ""Gould's Bile Beans"". Fulford was a Canadian who had travelled to Australia to sell Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People for his uncle, George Taylor Fulford. Fulford and Gilbert established the Bile"
"Saundby, ""created a demand by flooding the country with advertisements, placards, pamphlets and imaginary pictures."" Early newspaper promotions usually took the form of testimonials proclaiming ""miraculous life changing cures"". Often illustrated, they included letters from customers cured of lost appetites, severe headaches, indigestion and biliousness. A half-page advertisement in the ""Sheffield Evening Telegraph"" on 12 October 1900 featured a lady who had been cured by Bile Beans after ten doctors had failed to successfully treat her condition; copies of signed affidavits from neighbours were also printed. The level of advertising was not curtailed despite the adverse comments made by the"
"Factor"", ""Pop Idol"", ""Good Times, Bad Times"", ""The Price Is Right"", ""Family Feud"" and ""The Bill"". ""RTL"" originally stood for ""Radio Television Lëtzebuerg"" (in Luxemburgish), ""Radio Télévision Luxembourg"" (in French) or ""Radio Television Luxemburg"" (in German); with its English translation of the abbreviation as ""Radio [and] Television of Luxembourg."" RTL Group's history dates back to 1924 with a single radio station operated from a private home in Luxembourg. In 1931 ""CLR"" or ""Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Radiodiffusion"", which operated Radio Luxembourg, was founded. CLR was one of 23 founding broadcasting organisations of the European Broadcasting Union in 1950. RTL Group is"
"Bean Manufacturing Company in Leeds, England, in 1899. It was claimed that the formula for Bile Beans was created by an Australian scientist Charles Forde in 1898, based on research he had conducted on a vegetable source known only to Aboriginal Australians. In reality, Charles Forde did not exist; the name was used as an alias for Charles Fulford, who had no scientific training. The beans were initially manufactured in America by Parke Davis & Co. of Detroit, until the Bile Bean Manufacturing Company set up a production facility in Leeds, England, trading under the name of C. E. Fulford"
"Sayers, the crime writer. In the 1920s and 1930s, S. H. Benson Ltd was the leading advertising agency with long-running campaigns for Guinness, Macleans, Andrew's Liver Salts, Rowntrees chocolate, Lipton's Tea tea and Colman's Mustard. It specialized in large poster campaigns but undertook all types of advertising. One of the most famous campaigns was its 1926 effort for Colman's Mustard and the firm's greatest success came in 1928 with the first advertising campaign for Guinness. The Guinness Account In 65 years of advertising, only 5 agencies have ever held the Guinness account – S H Benson, J Walter Thompson, Allen"
"Lexington (cigarette) Lexington is a Luxembourgish brand of cigarettes, currently owned and manufactured by Landewyck Tobacco. In South Africa, it is sold by BAT South Africa, a subsidiary of British American Tobacco. Lexington was launched in 1950 and became one of the most popular brands of the 1950s, with one billion cigarettes being sold every year since 1955. The cigarettes became a popular brand in the Netherlands and South Africa, but failed on the German market. Various advertising jingles were created from the 1960s until the 1980s for South African radio, as well as advertising posters in Dutch and South"
"and a ""wrapper [...] lithographed in red ink instead of black"". In 1902 the Bile Bean Manufacturing Company acquired the trade mark of ""J. F. Smith's Bile Beans"" in the UK, which had been registered in 1887. According to a 1903 report published in the ""British Medical Journal"", the chief ingredients of Bile Beans were cascara, rhubarb, liquorice and menthol, packaged as a gelatine-coated pill, all ingredients commonly found in pharmacies of the period. It was not until 1941 that English companies were legally required to disclose the active ingredients in their non-prescription drugs. By the 1940s, the ingredients included"
"in 1931. The product has been extensively advertised since its launch in the U.S. It was originally marketed by Mikey Wiseman, a company scientist of Dr. Miles Medicine Company, who also helped direct its development. Print advertising was used immediately, and in 1932 the radio show Alka-Seltzer Comedy Star of Hollywood began, with National Barn Dance following in 1933, along with many more. The radio sponsorships continued into the 1950s, ending with the Alka-Seltzer Time show. Alka-Seltzer TV ads from the 1960s and 1970s in the US were among the most popular of the 20th century, ranking number 13, according"
"The first two albums featured songs that have been used in British television advertisements, which are partially responsible for the band's recognition: ""Sunshine Hit Me""'s ""A Minha Menina"", a cover of an Os Mutantes track, appeared in a Citroën car commercial and also an advert for Magners Irish Cider, whilst ""Chicken Payback"" and ""Wash in the Rain"", both from ""Free the Bees"", were incorporated in adverts for Sure Deodorant for Men and Sainsbury's,respectively. The song was also used to introduce the Northern comic character Stan Hibbert on Sky's Soccer AM. ""Chicken Payback"" is also used as the 'bed' track for"
"estate for £300. It is estimated the project cost Leverhulme £500,000. In 1930, a merger of the major palm oil consumers, the British soapmaker Lever Brothers and Dutch margarine producer Margarine Unie, created the foods conglomerate known as Unilever. The company′s main focus was overseas expansion by distribution of its manufactured foods products outside its two core markets. The company allowed its in-country operations considerable independence, as long as they made a profit. The head office of Mac Fisheries Ltd was at Ocean House, Pudding Lane, London EC3; its emblem was a roundel in blue and white showing the Scottish"
"In the 1920s, Shirriff advertised nationally in newspapers, describing their marmalades as something traditional, artisanal, and above all genuinely Scottish. An advertisement in the Ottawa Citizen of 1929 had the following text: At the time, Shirriff sold three types of marmalade: Seville Orange, Shredded Orange, and Pineapple. Prices ranged from a 12 oz. jar for 25¢ to four-pounds for 55¢. In 1927, Shirriff introduced the ""Flavour Bud"", a dissolvable capsule of extract for making jelly. Shiriff introduced the ""Lushus"" brand of products using the ""Flavour Bud."" In 1930, Shirriff introduced its ""Good Morning"" Marmalade, a recipe of three citrus fruits:"
"song ""Barbara Ann"" by The Regents. Use of said jingle started in France in the end of the 1970s, and then emerged to other parts of Europe and French-Canada by the start of the 1990s. They tout the product as an ""always on the go and ready for anything"" snack cheese. As of 2012, a recording of the song ""Get in Line"" by I'm from Barcelona has been used in their European adverts, where the band re recorded the song with a children's choir. In August 2012, there was controversy over its promotional use of the French slogan ""Des vacances"
"of the strict French regulations, which only allowed public stations. An agreement between the SLER and the Luxembourg government signed on 29 September 1930 with a duration of 25 years ensured the Luxembourg government a fee of 30% on future profits of the station. The agreement also set up a committee for programming and a technical committee which allowed the government to regulate the private station. The Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Radiodiffusion (CLR) was founded on 30 May 1931, officially replacing the SLER. On 14 January 1933 experimental broadcasts by Radio Luxembourg began, at 1191 mètres (200 kW), an unauthorized wavelength,"
"the early 1920s, more than five million cases of Bevo were sold annually. Labels on the bottles billed it as ""Bevo the Beverage"". The name ""Bevo"" was coined from the word ""beverage"" and the Slavic language word for beer, ""pivo"", and was pronounced ""Bee-vo"". Some Bevo advertising featured the character ""Renard the Fox"" (based on the protagonist of a medieval French folk tale), and promotional mugs with this character were manufactured. In 1930 Anheuser-Busch built a series of boat-bodied cars in its St. Louis shops called the ""Bevo Boats"" which were used for promotion. Seven are believed to have been"
"criticised for targeting its advertising towards young people and boys, through television commercials during NRL broadcasts, and other promotions. A series of advertisements featuring the Bundaberg Rum bear, a polar bear known as Bundy R. Bear, were produced by advertising agency Leo Burnett to align the product 'with a larrikin approach to Australian mateship'. The Bundaberg Rum bear first appeared in 1961. It was designed to soften rum's aggressive image and broaden its appeal from the traditional older male drinker to a more sociable audience. The advertisements have been cited as a favourite among Australia's youth. Bundaberg Rum Bundaberg Rum"
"from the fact that the product being advertised was deliberately unclear until the tell-tale cigar appeared, accompanied by the tune of Bach's Air on the G String, played by French musician Jacques Loussier, and the line ""Happiness is a cigar called Hamlet"". For example, one advertisement created a diversion by appearing to be advertising beer: a man, dying of thirst in a desert, finds a can of Heineken but accidentally spills it all into the sand; so instead he lights up a Hamlet cigar. Since the ban on tobacco advertising in the UK (which banned tobacco adverts on television in"
"times per day in the 1940s. The jingle was added to the National Film and Sound Archive's Sounds of Australia registry in 2008. Adolphus Herbert Frederick Norman Appleroth, known as Bert Appleroth, was a tram conductor who created jelly crystals using gelatine and sugar in his bath. He sold these jelly crystals door-to-door, using his tram route to transport him around Sydney. In 1917, Appleroth rented premises to manufacture his jelly, then formed a company with Albert Francis Lenertz named Traders Pty Ltd in 1927. Planes were considered new and exciting at the time, so aviation fan Appleroth named the"
"Journal suggested the bequest presented the charity with an ethical dilemma as it enjoyed the patronage from both medical and religious professions so to trade in products described by a judge as fraudulent would be perpetuating the deception. Initially Barnardo's refused the gift but eventually accepted an unconditional lump sum. Despite the Bile Beans Manufacturing Company having lost the Scottish court case in 1906, Bile Beans remained popular through the 1930s, and continued to be sold until the 1980s. The business was so successful that Frank Fulford was able to purchase Headingley Castle in Leeds in 1909, and to donate"
"production by 1944 (5 million bars/month) for use in rations. It also sold caramels and charcoal gum during the war because they used little sugar. The Almond Joy bar was introduced in 1948, using milk chocolate instead of dark chocolate, and adding a double-toasted almond on top, sold in a blue package to differentiate it from the Mounds' red package, becoming an immediate success After successfully advertising on national radio in the 1930s, Peter Paul led the industry in the use of network television advertising in the early 1950s, with the Peter Paul Pixies singing that Mounds and Almond Joys"
"Radio Luxembourg Radio Luxembourg was a multilingual commercial broadcaster in Luxembourg. It is known in most non-English languages as RTL (for Radio Television Luxembourg). The English-language service of Radio Luxembourg began in 1933 as one of the earliest commercial radio stations broadcasting to the UK and Ireland. It was an important forerunner of pirate radio and modern commercial radio in the United Kingdom. It was an effective way to advertise products by circumventing British legislation which until 1973 gave the BBC a monopoly of radio broadcasting on UK territory and prohibited all forms of advertising over the domestic radio spectrum."
"for channel 21 in SECAM for France, one on channel 27 on PAL for Belgium. Every day, at the start of the channel, the heraldic lion of Luxembourg appeared on the circles symbolising the radio waves and the name Télé-Luxembourg, followed by an image of the Dudelange transmitter, with the voice of Jacques Harvey announcing : """"Here is Télé-Luxembourg, channels 7, 21 and 27, Dudelange transmitter, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg."""". The game shows soon followed, with ""Coffre-fort"" presented by Michèle Etzel, under the slogan ""Vivement ce soir sur Télé-Luxembourg"", and advertising based on car stickers which viewers were encouraged to"
"the Luxembourg government to issue them a commercial broadcasting licence. On 19 December 1929, the government of Luxembourg passed a law awarding a monopoly licence to operate a commercial radio broadcasting franchise from the Grand Duchy. On 29 December, this licence was awarded to the Society, which in turn created the Luxembourg Broadcasting Company (Compagnie Luxembourgeoise de Radiodiffusion) to be identified on the air as Radio Luxembourg. In May 1932, Radio Luxembourg began high powered test transmissions aimed directly at Britain and Ireland (which proved, inadvertently, to be the first radio modification of the ionosphere). The reaction of the British"
"200g packets sold in Australia as (Nestlé) Allens Minties in 2010 are clearly labelled ""Made in New Zealand"". Newspaper advertising appears to have dropped off considerably, both in quantity and quality, between 1931 and 1940. During World War II and until 1946, supply of confectionery was restricted; what output there was went to serving troops. Advertising resumed after cessation of hostilities, anticipating eventual availability. Rationing may have been on a state-by-state basis. Minties had been available in shops from 1923 or earlier, but became the subject of prominent advertising as ""The Universal Sweet"" in June 1926. Coincident with this launch,"
"cocoa, the Hulshof purse company and the """"Zwarte Beertjes"""" (""""Black Bears"""") adverts of Dutch artist, illustrator and graphic designer Dick Bruna. Belinda ads were also featured in the Dutch magazine Margriet (magazine). Over time however, the popularity of Belinda started to decrease after tobacco advertising in the Netherlands was banned completely in 2003 and because of increasing taxes on cigarettes, pushing Dutch smokers to buy cheaper (foreign) brands such as Elixyr and Look Out. However, it is still one of the most known Dutch cigarette brands, and is still being sold in gas stations, supermarkets and tobacco shops in the"
"""Aah, Bisto!"" In Birmingham in the 1930s a competition was held to choose a name for the two Bisto twin characters, a boy and a girl smelling Bisto's gravy. The competition was won by Mr and Mrs Simmonds, who named the twins after themselves, calling them Bill and Maree. They were awarded a china doll. The Bisto Kids were also part of more elaborate advertising campaigns in later years. Although the Bisto Kids have not been included in Bisto advertising since 1996, many people still recognise them. During the 1980s, the company released a series of ads in the UK"
"were banned in 1963. The first advert to be shown in the UK was an advert for S.R. Toothpaste on September 22, 1955, on the ITV network (its first day) in England, In Scotland the first adverts were aired on August 31, 1957, Northern Ireland adverts were first aired on October 31, 1959 and Wales adverts were first aired on May 10, 1968. Many of the popular adverts over the years were for Bisto Gravy, Boots, Smith's Crisps & Flora. On July 1, 2000, TV broadcasters began requiring commercials to be delivered to them in widescreen, an event referred to"
"the women's head was removed from the packet, but later returned in a modified form in 2005. In 2004, the cigarette factory ""Tabacofina-Vander Elst"" located in Merksem closed its doors and moved production to the Netherlands. In June 2014, it was announced that the brand would be pulled off the shelves and replaced by Lucky Strike. Main market was Belgium. Other markets were Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Spain. Belga (cigarette) Belga was a Belgian brand of cigarettes that was owned and manufactured by British American Tobacco. The brand was launched in 1923 by the tobacco vendors Alphonse and François Vander"
"a Sweet” in 1928. The print advertisement was disseminated by Edward Bernays throughout the fashion industry in numerous fashion magazines and daily newspapers featuring slender Parisian models and proclaiming the dangers of sugar consumption. Famously, Amelia Earhart would also serve as a spokeswoman for the “Reach for a Lucky” campaign. Early on, the print advertisements simply featured an attractive woman with any of the variations of the slogan above or underneath her, accompanied by a rendering of the Lucky Strike Box. Later, the advertisements would make a more pointed statement about weight gain, featuring either a man or a woman"
"on television. In 1957, Pillsbury commissioned a television commercial jingle (from its advertising agency Leo Burnett) with the main lyrics ""Nothin' says lovin/Like somethin' from the oven/And Pillsbury says it best""; the jingle became a well-known signature of the company and was used, with modifications, in some form for at least the next 20 years. Later corporate acquisitions included restaurants such as Burger King, Steak and Ale, Bennigan's, Godfather's Pizza, Häagen-Dazs, and Quik Wok, plus popular grocery store food brands such as Green Giant. In the 1960s, Pillsbury added Sweet* 10 made with cyclamate, which became the most popular artificial"
"considered that the plaintiff's business was ""founded on, and conducted by fraud"", there being no secret ingredient and no connection with any plant found in Australia. The Court of Session dismissed an appeal, because it considered that the Bile Bean Manufacturing Company had deliberately defrauded the public by making false factual statements about the product, concluding that it was not entitled to any legal protection against the use of the term ""bile beans"". After setting up in England in 1899 the company spent about £60,000 a year in advertising its products, and according to Birmingham University Professor of Medicine Robert"