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146-715: The Stroh family began brewing beer in a family-owned inn during the 18th century in Kirn , in the Rheinland-Pfalz region of western central Germany . In 1849, during the German Revolution , Stroh, who had learned the brewing trade from his father, emigrated to the United States . Bernhard Stroh established his brewery in Detroit in 1850 when he was 28 and immediately started producing Bohemian-style pilsner , which had been developed at

292-531: A profit-sharing program for the company's workforce in 1887. By giving the workers a stake in the company, he correctly assumed that they would be less likely to go on strike. The company began to build factories in other locations in the United States because the demand for products had outgrown the capacity of the Cincinnati facilities. The company's leaders began to diversify its products as well, and in 1911

438-729: A Jewish school, a mikveh and a graveyard (see Jewish graveyard below). To provide for the community's religious needs, a schoolteacher was hired, who also busied himself as the hazzan and the shochet (preserved is a whole series of job advertisements for such a position in Kirn from such publications as Der Israelit ). Among the religion teachers were Joseph Seligmann (about 1880), Max Goldschmidt (about 1892; born in 1871 in Schlüchtern ; died at Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943), Joseph Nathan Kahn (in 1898–1899; born in 1877 in Rieneck ; had been

584-440: A beer derived from an original 1850s Stroh's recipe. The first batch was shipped to area bars, restaurants, and liquor stores on August 22, with special events all across metropolitan Detroit on the 26th. On May 4, 2018, Stroh's released its Perseverance IPA, as a Michigan exclusive. A version of Stroh's brewed elsewhere (evidently by Pabst) was set to be reintroducted to the Detroit area in 2022. Stroh TV commercials included

730-666: A bid for cash, Stroh Canada, was sold to Sleeman Breweries in Guelph, Ontario in 1999. Sleeman, a division of Sapporo Breweries , gained Canadian rights to manufacture and distribute a folio of brands which included Stroh's, Old Milwaukee and Pabst. An attempt to rejuvenate the core Stroh's brand in the US backfired, causing the steepest decline in American brewing history. Stock prices fell, and dwindling income had to be diverted to service an increasingly burdensome debt. Stroh's proved unable to withstand

876-564: A billion dollars in net annual sales. Most of these brands – including Bounty, Crest, Always , and Tide – are global products available on several continents. In 2005, Procter & Gamble made a $ 57 billion deal to buy Gillette, which combined some of the world's top brands including, signature razors, Duracell batteries, Braun, and Oral-B brands. P&G's products are available in North America, Latin America, Europe,

1022-756: A blue ribbon at the Columbian Exposition in Chicago . The company's name was changed to The Stroh Brewery Company in 1902. In 1905 Strohs purchased the Ruoff Brewery which happened to be next door on Gratiot Avenue.In 1908, Bernhard Stroh's brother Julius Stroh took over the brewery. After a tour of famous European breweries, he introduced the European fire-brewing method in the Stroh brewery. Common in Europe before World War I ,

1168-457: A century as a Progymnasium or a Realschule , before it was obtained by the town administration in 1938. The former monastery chapel now houses the council chamber. Belonging to the complex is a pavilion that originally stood in the extensive garden complex. Today the eight-sided building stands on the Hahnenbach's right bank at the marketplace. From the country house named “St. Johannisberg”

1314-647: A considerably greater age than that. The name Kirn is believed to be of Celtic origin. In the Fulda document mentioned above, the town was named as Chira . The name likely derives from the Celtic kyr , meaning 'water'. Meant here, of course, would be the Nahe and the Hahnenbach, which empties into it here, whose water apparently gave the town its name. The Nahe served then as an important transport route as well as supplying water for livestock and fish for people. The first settlement

1460-522: A division of the company's St. Paul, Minnesota , brewery called Northern Plains Brewing Company . Two years later, Red River Honey Brown Ale was introduced. The international market provided growth opportunities for Stroh that were very limited in the hyper-competitive U.S. market. In 1986, the company created Stroh International, Inc., initially targeting Canada , India , Japan , Mexico , and Russia . From 1992 through 1995, Stroh's international sales grew each year at rates exceeding 50 percent. In 1994,

1606-504: A few tanning families moved on and rose with new businesses in new locations, sometimes to worldwide importance. After the Rhine-Nahe Railway had been completed, not only leather products could be shipped to market, but so could the melaphyre being quarried at Kirn's quarries. With the rise of the brewery near the winery in 1863, the town eventually earned itself the title "Town of Leather, Stones and Beer". As industry grew, so too did

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1752-469: A foothold. When Peter Stroh took over the company in 1968, it still had not regained the market share lost in the strike ten years earlier. Stroh ended a 40-year relationship with a local advertising agency for a large national agency and began targeting the larger national market. Led by creative director Murray Page, Stroh's came up with the slogan "The One Beer...", and by 1971, Stroh Brewery had moved from 15th to 13th place nationally. In 1972, it entered

1898-717: A force not only in the town's economy but also in its cultural life. From the Family Englisch, who had come from the Davos area, sprang the painter Johann Georg Englisch (1668-1741), who did paintings in many churches over a broad area, and Johann Bernhard Englisch (1709-1768), who as a much sought-after ébéniste plied his trade as far away as Lake Geneva . The latter half of the 17th century, though, brought Kirn many occupations in connection with French King Louis XIV's wars of conquest. The town sometimes had to put up with (and supply) years-long occupations. This period ended with

2044-485: A heavy debt burden to finance the Schlitz acquisition, but found itself unable to compete nationally with the likes of Anheuser-Busch , Miller , and Coors . Stroh's began to lose market share and profit margins, leading it to begin laying off employees. After Coors passed Stroh's in size, Peter Stroh agreed to sell the company's operations to Coors, but the deal ultimately fell through. In the aftermath, Stroh sought to address

2190-631: A lively market centre. Still preserved today, alongside the flea markets held on the first Monday of each month, are two prominent markets: the Andreasmarkt  – which celebrated its 300th anniversary in 2000 – on the last weekend in November, and the Thomasmarkt on the second Saturday in December. These markets are quite a boon for Kirn in that they always draw many visitors from the surrounding region. At

2336-570: A long-sought-after target when it acquired the G. Heileman Brewing Company of La Crosse, Wisconsin for about $ 290 million. The purchase brought more than 30 brands to the Stroh family, many recently acquired by Heilman during the intense industry consolidation still underway, including Colt 45 malt liquor , which when combined with Schlitz Malt Liquor, gave Stroh more than half of the malt liquor market. Stroh had borrowed heavily to grow, and while it increased its market share, it had not increased its cash flow in an increasingly declining market. In

2482-489: A medical practice at Bahnhofstraße 11, was a doctor for the Deutsche Reichsbahn , and was said to be called the "poor man's doctor" for his charitable engagement, and Wilhelm Vogel I (third leader), a merchant who lived at Neuestraße 9. Still working as teacher, cantor and shochet was the same Bernhard Weil already named. In the 1931–1932 school year, he taught 12 Jewish children from the community in religion. After 1933,

2628-583: A number of other companies that diversified its product line and significantly increased profits. These acquisitions included Folgers Coffee , Norwich Eaton Pharmaceuticals (the makers of Pepto-Bismol ), Richardson-Vicks, Noxell ( Noxzema ), Shulton's Old Spice , Max Factor , the Iams Company, and Pantene , among others. In 1994, the company made headlines for big losses resulting from leveraged positions in interest rate derivatives , and subsequently sued Bankers Trust for fraud; this placed their management in

2774-483: A prayer room and a graveyard: from the 16th century to the 19th, there was still a cadastral area within the town named Of dem Judenkirchof ( ' On the Jews' Churchyard ' ) in memory of an old Jewish graveyard. Between the 15th and 18th centuries, there were apparently no Jewish residents at all in Kirn. Only in 1693, during one of French King Louis XIV's occupations , is a Jewish inhabitant mentioned as being in town for

2920-417: A product called Chux. Babies always wore cloth diapers, which were leaky and labor-intensive to wash. Pampers provided a convenient alternative, albeit at the environmental cost of more waste requiring landfilling . Amid the recent concerns parents have voiced on the ingredients in diapers, Pampers launched Pampers Pure collection in 2018, which is a "natural" diaper alternative. Procter & Gamble acquired

3066-592: A replacement of the defensive complexes was undertaken. In 1734, the stronghold was once again under French occupation, and in the course of the War of the Polish Succession , it was blown up. The ruin thereafter served the townsfolk as a stone quarry. In 1764, Prince Johann Dominik had the garrison house built, which nowadays houses the Restaurant Kyrburg , and in the cellar , the well known whisky museum . In 1908,

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3212-565: A rise in Kirn's economic importance, and in the field of finishing small leather goods, to a rise in the town's prestige. After the Second World War , there was another economic upswing, which brought along with it more population growth. Beginning in the 1960s, it was clear that another restructuring was needed. Since that time, no more tanning has been done in Kirn and even the small leather goods industry found itself undergoing changes. Instead of leather, plastic goods are now produced. With

3358-574: A short while. From the mid 19th century, there were once again Jewish families living in Kirn. The number of Jewish inhabitants developed as follows: in 1843, there were none; in 1858, 5; in 1866, 45; in 1895, 104 (1.8% of all together 5,639 inhabitants). The Jews who had moved to town were by and large from smaller outlying places in the region, among others Hennweiler , Bruschied , Becherbach , Simmern unter Dhaun (today Simmertal ), Merxheim , Meddersheim , Sien , Laufersweiler and Hottenbach . After 1900,

3504-439: A small municipal area, which even today has not changed. The vineyards strewn over the hills all about the town surely only provided for local demand. The scant, stony soils allowed no more than limited yields when farmed. Livestock raising, on the other hand, seems to have played a certain role. These circumstances favoured the growth of various handicrafts in the town. Livestock raising, the low-lying oak forest right nearby and

3650-430: A special unit of the brewery continued to make Stroh's Ice Cream (this facility remained in Detroit until February 2007, when the operation was moved to Belvidere, Illinois , though the distribution facility in Detroit still remains). Upon Julius Stroh's death in 1939, his son Gari Stroh assumed the presidency. Gari's brother John succeeded him in 1950 and became Stroh's chairman in 1967. Gari's son Peter, who had joined

3796-645: A statement made by William Gipson, P&G's chief global diversity officer. In November 2015, P&G was named the Careers in Africa Employer of Choice 2015 following a survey of over 13,000 African professionals from across the globe. P&G was also recognized as the most desirable FMCG business to work for in Africa. P&G was recognized as one of Forbes World's Most Reputable Companies in 2016, 2017, and 2023. As of 2015, 21 of P&G's brands have more than

3942-662: A teacher in Babenhausen , after his short time in Kirn he moved to Offenbach am Main ), Bernhard Weil (beginning in 1908; born in 1868 in Eichstetten , died in 1943 in Noé , Haute-Garonne , France , was until February 1939 in Kirn, thereafter and until his deportation in October 1940 in Karlsruhe ; further details can be found at the end of this section). One member of Kirn's Jewish community fell in

4088-419: A three-pronged revitalization strategy: developing new products, brewing beer under contract for other brewers, and expanding overseas. The new product area was critical because the explosion in beer brand and types of beer in the 1990s undermined the market share for all established brands. Stroh's strategy when seeking to enter the market for a new type of beer was to extend one or more of its existing brands. In

4234-624: A town charter. Johann Dominik's nephew and successor Friedrich III ruined the country's finances with his impecunious ways of conducting his life, to the point at which the Reichskammergericht even imposed a bankruptcy régime on the town. In 1794, he met his end in Paris at the guillotine . Beginning in 1797, the little state that was Kirn belonged, like all the German lands on the Rhine's left bank , to

4380-570: Is Lutheran (0.012%), 1 is Old Catholic (0.012%), 2 belong to the Palatinate State Free Religious Community (0.024%), 1 is Reformed (0.012%), 1 is Old-Reformed (0.012%), 7 are Russian Orthodox (0.085%), 1 belongs to the Frankfurt Jewish worship community (0.012%), 481 (5.852%) belong to other religious groups and 1,389 (16.898%) either have no religion or will not reveal their religious affiliation. The council

4526-763: Is a starting point for the Hunsrück Schiefer- und Burgenstraße (“Hunsrück Slate and Castle Road”), the Soonwaldsteig ( hiking trail), the Keltenweg Nahe–Mosel (likewise) and the Lützelsoon-Radweg ( cycle path), as well as being a stage on the Nahe-Hunsrück-Mosel-Radweg (another cycle path). The following clubs are active in Kirn: Given its central geographical location, Kirn was always

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4672-540: Is an outstanding view, dominated as it is by the Hellberg, the biggest stone run north of the Alps . Although it is in an area where stone has long been quarried, it is a natural formation made up of weathered stone. The stones slowly slide down the slope over time. Quarrying is not allowed, as the Hellberg lies within a conservation area. Beginning in the early 1870s there was a Jewish prayer room in Kirn. Rented for this purpose

4818-479: Is believed to have lain on the bank of the Kyrbach (another name for the Hahnenbach although, strictly speaking, it designates only the Hahnenbach's headstream some distance upstream from Kirn), in an area today bordered by Gerbergasse and Langgasse (lanes), with the marketplace in the middle. In other words, at the crossroads, a market grew up. This was the seed from which the town's history sprouted. The roads leading over

4964-644: Is made up of 24 council members, who were elected by personalized proportional representation at the municipal election held on 7 June 2009, and the mayor as chairman. The municipal election held on 7 June 2009 yielded the following results: Gains and losses (“+/–”) are reckoned against the 2004 election results. Voter turnout was 48.5% (48.3% in 2004). Kirn's mayor is Frank Ensminger ( FDP ), and his deputies are Christa Hermes ( CDU ), Michael Kloos ( SPD ), and Hartmut Ott ( FWG ). The town's arms might be described thus: Gules two lions combatant Or armed and langued azure holding two cramps per saltire argent, crowning

5110-399: Is not reachable to visitors all the way down to the lowest crags. The ruins can, however, be seen quite well from the road. Today's town hall was built in the years from 1752 to 1771. The master builder Johann Thomas Petri built here, once again on Prince Dominik's orders, a Piarist monastery , which was nevertheless used as such for only a few years. The building later served for more than

5256-420: Is now a leisure basin with a slide, a flow channel and massage couches as well as a wading pool with a little slide. The Kirn town library has been housed since January 2002 at Wilhelm-Dröscher-Haus on the Hahnenbach's left bank. On a floor area of 145 m , some 5,800 books are available to readers. Thematic specialization involves, besides belles lettres , mainly children's and youth literature . Kirn

5402-578: Is the seat of the Verbandsgemeinde Kirner Land . Kirn is a middle centre serving an area on the Nahe and in the Hunsrück . Kirn lies in a landscape characterized by the Nahe valley and the valley of the Hahnenbach, cut deeply into the Lützelsoon, roughly 10 km northeast of Idar-Oberstein and 30 km west of Bad Kreuznach . The valley floors are heavily settled in places, whereas

5548-597: Is their head offices. Because such a great deal of the production has been shifted to countries where wages are low, very few people are now employed in the leather industry in Kirn itself. World-famous among what little is left of the industry are the Müller & Meirer Lederwarenfabrik GmbH (locally known as “Müller Hein” and its products marketed under the name Maître) and the Braun GmbH & Co. KG (local name and marketing brand: Braun Büffel). Throughout Rhineland-Palatinate ,

5694-459: The Bürgermeisterei ( ' Mayoralty ' ) of Kirn, an arrangement that lasted until 1857 when, by Royal Cabinet Order, Kirn was granted the rank of town. Now, however, there was only one leader, the mayor, who held the reins of both the town and the now supposedly separate outlying villages. This " personal union " lasted until 1896. Only after the fall of the customs barriers and the building of

5840-562: The Bad Kreuznach district are represented in Kirn in the fields of mechanics , commerce and industry, home economics, economics and administration. The programmes offered by the folk high school and the music school round out Kirn's educational offerings. Medical services are supplied by the hospital run by the kreuznacher diakonie (always written with lowercase initials), many general and specialized healthcare professionals who have located in town and five pharmacies . For seniors,

5986-509: The First World War , Alfred Moritz (b. 16 May 1890 in Meisenheim , d. 20 June 1916). In 1925, Kirn's Jewish community numbered 106 (1.4% of the total population). In 1932, the Jewish community's leaders were Ferdinand Schmelzer (head of leadership), since 1911 the owner of a shop that sold brushes and household goods at Radergasse 1, Dr. med. Richard Asch (second leader), who since 1918 had had

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6132-708: The French state . It formed together with a few outlying villages a mairie ( ' mayoralty ' ) in the Arrondissement of Simmern in the Department of Rhin-et-Moselle . Kirn now became a town lying in the southwesternmost part of its department, thus cleaving it asunder from many of the formerly Salm-held areas that had once fed its economy. When the decisions made at the Congress of Vienna in 1814 and 1815 began to be implemented locally in 1817, things got even worse for Kirn as it

6278-497: The Hallmark Channel in 2013. In 2013, PGP rebranded itself as Procter & Gamble Entertainment (PGE) with a new logo and an emphasis on multiple-platform entertainment production. P&G funded a six-episode series, Activate , on National Geographic in 2019 focusing on extreme poverty, inequality and sustainability in conjunction with not-for-profit Global Citizen and production company Radical Media. The company agreed to

6424-534: The Handwerker- und Bauernmarkt (“Craftsmen’s and Farmers’ Market”) in October, small businesses from the Kirn area present their handmade wares and offer them for sale. There is also a Wochenmarkt (weekly market – which despite this name is held twice weekly) on Wednesdays and Saturdays. Kirn once earned itself countrywide fame as the “Town of Leather”. Most of the tanneries and leather-finishing plants of yore are now long gone, and all that remains of them in town

6570-583: The Thirty Years' War . Foreign fighters ( Spaniards , Croats , Frenchmen and Swedes , to name but a few) along with two Plague epidemics wrought havoc with the town, reducing its 230 families in 1616 (two years before the war broke out) to only 74 afterwards. These losses were somewhat offset by the arrival of newcomers from Lombardy , the Tyrol and the Engadin . These immigrants and their offspring quickly became

6716-626: The Thomas Hedley Co. , based in Newcastle upon Tyne , England. After this acquisition, Procter & Gamble had their UK Headquarters at Hedley House in Newcastle upon Tyne, until quite recently, when they moved to The Heights, Brooklands . Numerous new products and brand names were introduced over time, and Procter & Gamble began branching out into new areas. The company introduced Tide laundry detergent in 1946, Prell shampoo in 1947 and Joy,

6862-512: The Winston Cup Series during the 1988 and 1989 seasons. Hall of Fame center Mario Lemieux signed a two-year deal with Stroh's on October 20, 1997, that allowed Lemieux to appear in print ads and in public appearances but allowed him to remain away from television ads. Lemieux's image was also featured on several Stroh's commemorative cans. Kirn Kirn is a town in the Bad Kreuznach district in Rheinland-Pfalz , Germany . It

7008-519: The castle had its first documentary mention. It was originally a fief held by the Lords of Stein, later called the Lords of Steinkallenfels, who died out in 1778. Beginning in the 14th century, it was a jointly held castle. As long ago as 1615, the castle was described as being in a state of disrepair. Eventually, in either 1682 or 1684, it was blown up by the French and has been a ruin ever since. The castle uses

7154-410: The 1866 list of "Jews who have been empowered to exercise the franchise " were Jacob Ullmann ( salesman ), David Ullmann ( merchant ), David Wolf ( spice dealer from Löllbach ), Moses Lieb (salesman) Abraham Scholem (merchant), Marcus Loeb (merchant from Weierbach ) and Jacob Mayer ( musician , innkeeper from Hennweiler ). In the way of institutions, there were a synagogue (see Synagogue below),

7300-501: The 1920s, P&G advertised its products on the new medium of radio and, from 1932 forward, was one of the biggest sponsors of daytime serials, which soon acquired the nickname of soap operas . In the television era, P&G sponsored and produced some twenty soap operas across six decades before the last of its shows ended in 2010. The company moved into other countries, both in terms of manufacturing and product sales, becoming an international corporation with its 1930 acquisition of

7446-514: The 1990s, the graveyard was desecrated several times. It lies on Kallenfelser Straße right next to the municipal ( Christian ) graveyard. The Jewish graveyard actually comprises the north corner of the municipal graveyard, but lies outside the graveyard wall. At the community hall ( Gesellschaftshaus ), which was built in 1879 by the leather company of Carl Simon & Söhne in the Classicist style, concert , cabaret and theatrical events are held

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7592-483: The Abbey out of its rights, leaving it only with the market rights. In the 11th or 12th century, the rights to the market were transferred to the Lords of Stein, whose seat was on the "stones" ( Stein means ' stone ' in German ) in the Hahnenbach valley above what is now Kirn's outlying centre of Kallenfels. The Lords of Stein-Kallenfels were able to assert these rights until the 18th century, defending them first against

7738-645: The Church bear witness to the people's wealth. Around the church over on the Kyr's left bank stood clerics' houses as well as the Latin school , which was first mentioned in 1402, and which in the course of its history sent dozens of students to every university in Germany. Because the local lordships were somewhat less than decisive in their governance, the Reformation was introduced into

7884-470: The European Iams business to Spectrum Brands in December 2014. In August 2014, P&G announced it was streamlining the company, dropping around 100 brands and concentrating on the remaining 65, which were producing 95% of the company's profits. In March 2015, the company divested its Vicks VapoSteam U.S. liquid inhalant business to Helen of Troy , part of a brand-restructuring operation. This deal

8030-829: The Heart: The Ricky Bell Story , which was co-produced by The Landsburg Company , and they continued to produce the People's Choice Awards until the show was sold to E! channel in April 2017. In 2007, PGP teamed up with the now-defunct Cookie Jar Group to produce the Flash-animated children's series Will and Dewitt , which featured the character Dewitt, the mascot for the Pampers baby product line's former sub-brand, Kandoo. With Walmart, PGP sponsored Family Movie Night on broadcast networks in 2010–2011 and Walden Family Theater on

8176-564: The Jewish community was forced to sell the synagogue property for 5,358  ℛℳ . In connection with the restitution proceedings in 1950, a further payment of 4,000  DM was made. That same year, the building was torn down. A cinema was built there instead. A memorial has recalled the fate of the town's Jewish community and its synagogue since 9 November 1988 – the fiftieth anniversary of Kristallnacht. This can be found on Steinweg between Neue Straße and Langgasse. Another memorial plaque dating from earlier – 1978 – can be found at

8322-402: The Jews living in Becherbach became part of the Kirn Jewish community, having hitherto belonged to the Hundsbach community. The actual entity known as the Jewish community (the Israelitische Religionsgesellschaft in Kirn ) was founded in 1866 when a leadership and representatives were elected and at the same time both a men's association and a women's association came into being. Appearing on

8468-403: The Kallenfels with a square keep , but there is no access to this site. Highest up sits the castle Stein, which with its neck ditch , gate tower , bastions , shield wall and five-sided keep set back from the side of any expected attack. The three castles were joined together by defensive passages, of which only a few remnants have been preserved. The complex is now under private ownership, and

8614-490: The Kyrburg's destruction in 1734, an event that the townsfolk surely also welcomed. After the House of Salm died out, the lordship over the Oberamt of Kirn and the half share of the town itself passed in 1743 to the line of Salm-Leuze. Together with his brother Phillip Joseph, Prince Johann Dominik Albert took over the lordship. Johann Dominik (1708-1778) was an enlightened, affable prince, who through future-oriented measures, such as building streets and boulevards, boosted

8760-422: The Middle East, Africa, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand. In 2018, P&G's fabric and home care division accounted for 32% of the company's total net sales, the highest of all its divisions. The division includes Downy , Gain , Tide , Febreze , and Dawn . According to Advertising Age , Procter & Gamble spent $ 4.3 billion advertising their various brands in the United States in 2015, making it

8906-418: The Nahe. Also characterizing the town's appearance is the quarry up from the town centre, which stretches eastwards all the way to the town limit. Kirn's municipal area measures 16.53 km , and by percentages, the uses of this land break down thus: Clockwise from the north, Kirn's neighbours are the municipalities of Oberhausen bei Kirn , Hochstetten-Dhaun , Meckenbach , Heimweiler and Bärenbach ,

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9052-401: The Rhine-Nahe Railway (1856-1859) was there once again an appreciable economic upswing. Leathermaking began to recover once the tanners, both those using bark tanning and those using mineral tanning, set up shop – sometimes jointly – in the area between the Nahe , the Hahnenbach and the millpond, after traditionally keeping their tanneries along the bank of the Hahnenbach. After 1850,

9198-406: The U.S. Justice Department approved the acquisition once Stroh agreed to sell either Schlitz's Memphis or Winston-Salem breweries. On February 8, 1985, Stroh announced that it would close its 135-year-old brewery on Detroit's east side. Chairman Peter Stroh said that the facility was simply outdated and had no room to expand. The structure was imploded the following year. Stroh's had taken on

9344-423: The US from the United Kingdom. They initially settled in Cincinnati, Ohio , and met when they married sisters Olivia and Elizabeth Norris. Alexander Norris, their father-in-law, persuaded them to become business partners, and in 1837, Procter & Gamble was created. From 1858 to 1859, sales reached $ 1 million. By that point, about 80 employees worked for Procter & Gamble. During the American Civil War ,

9490-420: The USA cable network. The company also sponsored the 1984 Dallas Grand Prix , an event considered an important boost for Stroh's international name recognition. "High Rollers", a contest for amateur bowlers, was also developed and sponsored by the company. Stroh's most popular non-sports promotion during this period was the " Schlitz Rocks America " concert series. It also sponsored NASCAR legend Mark Martin in

9636-429: The Waldgraves and later against their successors. West of the market centre arose another settlement in the years that followed, obviously founded by the Waldgraves, which was called Altstadt ( ' Old Town ' ), and for which town rights were being sought, as it were, to take the bread out of the market town's mouth. Town rights, though, were forthcoming to neither the Kyr settlement nor the Altstadt , even though

9782-404: The Waldgravial-Rhinegravial lands only in 1544 or 1545. Outwardly, the Kirn townsfolk's new self-assurance showed itself in the way they ended their own serfdom in 1600 by buying their freedom for 4,000 Rhenish guilders . It was many years, though, before the debt burden arising from this no longer weighed on the town's economy. Kirn's and its economy's favourable growth came to a dead stop with

9928-833: The acquisition of Gillette , forming the largest consumer goods company and placing Unilever into second place. This added brands such as Gillette razors, Duracell , Braun , and Oral-B to their stable. The acquisition was approved by the European Union and the Federal Trade Commission , with conditions to a spinoff of certain overlapping brands. P&G agreed to sell its SpinBrush battery-operated electric toothbrush business to Church & Dwight , and Gillette's Rembrandt toothpaste line to Johnson & Johnson . The deodorant brands Right Guard , Soft and Dri, and Dry Idea were sold to Dial Corporation . In 2001, Liquid Paper and Gillette's stationery division, Paper Mate , were sold to Newell Rubbermaid . The companies officially merged on October 1, 2005. In 2008, P&G branched into

10074-445: The acquisition of the consumer health division of Merck Group (known as EMD Serono in North America) for €3.4 billion ($ 4.2 billion) and renamed it as Procter & Gamble Health Limited in May 2019. In November 2018, P&G unveiled a simpler corporate structure with six business units that will be effective from July 2019. In 2023, the company began optimizing its product offering. As part of this strategy, it plans to eliminate

10220-515: The amalgamation of the villages of Kallenfels and Kirnsulzbach in 1969, the population rose for a time above 10,000, only to shrink later on. Today, somewhat more than 8,000 people call Kirn home. Kirn had a Jewish community until sometime between 1938 and 1942. Even as far back as the Middle Ages , there were Jews living in the town. The violent persecution that took place on 21 September 1287 (11 Tishri 5048 according to data in Siegmund Salfeld 's Das Martyrologium des Nürnberger Memorbuches ) saw

10366-414: The board include: In May 2011, Fortune editor-at-large Patricia Sellers praised P&G's board diversity, as five of the company's 11 directors were female and had all been on Fortune 's annual Most Powerful Women list. In March 2011, Rajat Gupta resigned from the board after an SEC accusation of Galleon Group insider trading . In May 2013, Robert A. McDonald announced his retirement and

10512-488: The bottom 25% of SKUs , which contribute very little to absolute retail sales. According to other comparable companies, a similar share of SKUs represents between 2% and 2.5% of its turnover at a global level. For the fiscal year 2018, Procter & Gamble reported earnings of US$ 9.750 billion, with an annual revenue of US$ 66.832 billion, an increase of 2.7% over the previous fiscal cycle. The company's shares traded at over $ 86 per share in 2017, and its market capitalization

10658-638: The bottom in the list and also mentioned earlier, was born on 19 June 1868 in Eichstetten to Isaak Weil and Pauline née Rotschild. He had himself trained as a schoolteacher and a cantor and worked as such from 1908 to 1939 in Kirn (and before that in Leutershausen [Bergstraße], among other places). As at 30 September 2013, there are 8,220 full-time residents in Kirn, and of those, 4,180 are Evangelical (50.852%), 2,152 are Catholic (26.18%), 2 are Greek Orthodox (0.024%), 2 are Jehovah's Witnesses (0.024%), 1

10804-656: The camps in July 1942. According to the Gedenkbuch  – Opfer der Verfolgung der Juden unter der nationalsozialistischen Gewaltherrschaft in Deutschland 1933-1945 ("Memorial Book – Victims of the Persecution of the Jews under National Socialist Tyranny ") and Yad Vashem , of all Jews who either were born in Kirn or lived there for a long time, 50 were victims of Nazi persecution (birthdates in brackets): Bernhard Weil, third from

10950-530: The castle complex past into the ownership of the Princes of Salm-Salm; since 1988, it has been owned by the town of Kirn. As an outdoor stage, the ruin offers a dramatic backdrop for cultural events. In the past, several operas have been staged there (mainly ones by Giuseppe Verdi ). It is also a venue for plays, concerts and celebrations. Steinkallenfels (also written “Stein-Kallenfels”) is yet another hill castle ruin in Kirn, this one in outlying Kallenfels. In 1158,

11096-524: The church served both Protestants and Catholics as a simultaneous church . During this time, a wall split of the Protestant section of the church from the sanctuary, which was reserved for the Catholics. After the frightful flood of 1875, new building was required at the church. As a result of this, the Catholics thought it best to build themselves their own church on Halmer Weg. The princely winery building

11242-491: The combined breweries ranked seventh in beer sales. In addition, Stroh was able to take advantage of Schaefer's distributors in the northeastern part of the country. The acquisition also brought Stroh three new brands: Schaefer and Piels beers, and Schaefer's Cream Ale. The company now had a volume of over 40,000,000 US beer barrels (4,700,000 m) and 400 distributors in 28 states, Washington D.C. , Puerto Rico , and other Caribbean islands. In 1982, Stroh bid for 67 percent of

11388-431: The company announced the sale of 43 of its beauty brands to Coty , a beauty-product manufacturer, in a US$ 13 billion deal. It cited sluggish growth of its beauty division as the reason for the divestiture. The sale was completed on October 3, 2016. In February 2016, P&G completed the transfer of Duracell to Berkshire Hathaway through an exchange of shares. In December 2018, Procter & Gamble completed

11534-504: The company at 15th place of the "World's Most Admired Companies" list. Chief Executive magazine named P&G the best overall company for leadership development in its list of the "40 Best Companies for Leaders". In October 2008, P&G was named one of " Canada's Top 100 Employers " by Mediacorp Canada Inc. and was featured in Maclean's newsmagazine . Later that month, P&G was also named one of Greater Toronto's Top Employers , which

11680-414: The company began producing Crisco , a shortening made of vegetable oils rather than animal fats . Beginning in the 1880s, P&G advertised its wares in full-page advertisements in many general-interest magazines. By 1921, it had become a major international corporation with a diversified line of soaps, toiletries, and food products; in that year, its annual advertising budget reached $ 1 million. In

11826-463: The company entered into a licensing agreement with Rajasthan Breweries , Ltd. (located outside Delhi ) to produce, distribute, and market Stroh's and Stroh's Super Strong beers in India, an industry first, as was being sold in cans. Rajasthan Breweries sold Stroh's all over India; the brand is still recognized and remembered in India despite it not having been sold there for several years. The following year,

11972-533: The company following his graduation from Princeton University in 1951, became president in 1968. In 1964, the company made its first move toward expansion when it bought the Goebel Brewing Company , a rival across the street. The company had decided it could no longer compete as a local brewer and was about to move into the national scene. One reason was a costly statewide strike in 1958 that halted Michigan beer production and allowed national brands to gain

12118-457: The company reached an agreement with Sapporo Breweries Ltd. of Tokyo whereby Sapporo began distributing Stroh's beer nationwide in Japan. By 1995, exports accounted for more than 10 percent of overall Stroh sales. In early 1995, William Henry assumed Peter Stroh's CEO position to become the first non-Stroh family member to hold that position for the company. The following year Stroh finally landed

12264-505: The company won contracts to supply the Union Army with soap and candles. In addition to the increased profits experienced during the war, the military contracts introduced soldiers from all over the country to Procter & Gamble's products. In the 1880s, Procter & Gamble began to market a new product, an inexpensive soap that floated in water. The company called the soap Ivory . William Arnett Procter, William Procter's grandson, began

12410-459: The company's cash flow problems through real estate development of the company's former headquarters and by diversifying into other beverages—such as White Mountain Cooler , a fruit-flavored drink with 5 percent alcohol, and Sundance sparkling-water fruit drink. These efforts met with little success, and Stroh's sold its ice cream operation to Dean Foods Company in 1988. Stroh then implemented

12556-466: The demand for manpower, and thus between 1850 and 1910, the town's population swelled from roughly 1,500 to 7,000. This positive development was, however, interrupted by the upshot from the First World War , the runaway inflation and the Great Depression . Already in the 1920s and 1930s, many enterprises felt forced to restructure their production. New businesses came that contributed once again to

12702-400: The early and mid-1990s was the packaged "draft" beer; Stroh made its presence felt in this category as well with Stroh's Draft Light, Old Milwaukee Genuine Draft, and Schlitz Genuine Draft. Another important new product area was specialty beer. Its popularity in the 1990s was led by the emergence of hundreds of microbreweries and producing craft beers , not by the industry leaders. Stroh and

12848-518: The economy. Many of his master builder Thomas Petri's buildings still characterize Kirn's appearance, and the same is true for a number of the outlying villages that then belonged to the Oberamt . Particularly worthy of mention here are the winery on Kallenfelser Straße, the Piarist monastery (nowadays the town hall) and many official and private buildings throughout the town. Meanwhile, in 1767, Kirn received

12994-539: The end of our family's centuries old brewing tradition that had become, in essence, an important part of our identity." The Stroh family lost over $ 700 million, decimating its fortune. After the company's dissolution in 2000, some Stroh brands were discontinued, while others were purchased by other breweries. The Pabst Brewing Company acquired the most Stroh/Heileman brands. As of that year it produced Colt .45 malt liquor, Lone Star , Schaefer, Schlitz, Schmidt's , Old Milwaukee , Old Style (under contract with City Brewery,

13140-500: The fire-brewing process uses a direct flame rather than steam to heat beer-filled copper kettles. The company claims that the resulting higher temperatures bring out more of the beer's flavor. During Prohibition , Julius Stroh operated the business under the name The Stroh Products Company, producing near beer (beer with its alcohol extracted), birch beer , soft drinks , malt products, ice cream , and ice. Though production of most of these items ceased when Prohibition ended in 1933,

13286-520: The first liquid synthetic detergent in 1949. In 1955, Procter & Gamble began selling the first toothpaste to contain fluoride , known as Crest . Branching out once again in 1957, the company purchased paper mills from Charmin and began manufacturing toilet paper and other tissue paper products. Once again focusing on laundry, Procter & Gamble began making Downy -branded fabric softener in 1960 and Bounce fabric softener sheets in 1972. From 1957 to 1968, Procter & Gamble owned Clorox ,

13432-402: The first radio serial dramas in the 1930s. As the company was known for Ivory soap, the serials became known as " soap operas ". With the rise of television in the 1950s and 1960s, most of the new serials were sponsored, produced and owned (20 series) by the company (including The Guiding Light , which had begun as a radio serial, and made the transition to television lasting 72 years). Though

13578-664: The following: Locally in Michigan, the company was the longtime sponsor for the Detroit Tigers baseball team's radio broadcasts, a relationship that began in 1960. In the 1980s, the company also turned to corporate sponsorship to gain needed national publicity. Stroh was a sponsor of the 1982 World's Fair in Knoxville, Tennessee , an event that strengthened Stroh's new national standing considerably. For many years Stroh had received little television exposure because of an agreement between

13724-505: The food business in 2012 when it sold its Pringles snack food business to Kellogg's for $ 2.75 billion after the $ 2.35 billion deal with former suitor Diamond Foods fell short. The company had previously sold Jif peanut butter , Crisco shortening and oils, and Folgers coffee in separate transactions to fellow Ohio-based company Smucker's . In April 2014, the company sold its Iams pet food business in all markets excluding Europe to Mars, Inc. for $ 2.9 billion. It sold

13870-421: The four great yearly markets and the weekly markets. The houses around the marketplace had on their ground floors recesses in which local handicraftsmen would offer their wares for sale in their “shops”. On the marketplace itself were, besides the two fountains, also lockable market stalls that could be hired by bakers , butchers and potters . On the Hahnenbach side of the square stood the 1508 town hall, which

14016-560: The heights brought the people of the Nahegau to this market town. The Marktmeile ( ' market mile ' ), within whose tightly defined boundaries no other market was allowed to be held, protected the markets and those who fed them in a tightly bordered area around the town. Great parts of the market town were held during the High Middle Ages by Saint Maximin's Abbey in Trier , which also held

14162-403: The increasingly popular non-alcoholic beer segment, for example, Old Milwaukee Non-Alcoholic was introduced in 1991, while Stroh's Non Alcoholic debuted in 1993. Old Milwaukee NA quickly became one of the top three selling non-alcoholic brews. In the ice beer category, Stroh launched Old Milwaukee Ice, Schlitz Ice, Schlitz Ice Light, Bull Ice, and Schaefer Ice, all in 1994. Another hot category in

14308-522: The last P&G-produced show, As the World Turns , left the air in 2010, The Young and the Restless , produced by Sony Pictures Television and broadcast on CBS, is still partially sponsored by Procter & Gamble; as of 2017, it is the only remaining daytime drama that is partially sponsored by Procter & Gamble. These past serials were produced by Procter & Gamble: Procter & Gamble also

14454-539: The last few years, tourism , too, has been growing in importance. For a town of its size, Kirn has a rather comprehensive offering of educational institutions. Besides five daycare centres and two primary schools , there is the municipal Hauptschule , which as of 1 August 2011 became a Realschule plus . Also available are a Gymnasium ( Gymnasium Kirn ), a Realschule and the Wilhelm-Dröscher-Schule for pupils with special needs. The vocational schools of

14600-576: The leading American manufacturer of liquid bleach; however, the Federal Trade Commission challenged the acquisition, and the U.S. Supreme Court decided against P&G in April 1967. One of the most revolutionary products to come out on the market was the company's disposable Pampers diaper, first test-marketed in 1961, the same year Procter & Gamble came out with Head & Shoulders . Prior to this point, disposable diapers were not popular, although Johnson & Johnson had developed

14746-487: The main entrance, was converted into a hotel with a restaurant in 2005. The rest of the building is now used as dwellings. Kirn's foremost landmark, standing above the town, is the Kyrburg (also written “Kirburg”), a former hill castle , now a ruin . It lies between the Nahe and Hahnenbach valleys high above Kirn. In 1128, the Kyrburg had its first documentary mention in a document from Count Emich de Kirberc . The castle

14892-730: The major networks and Anheuser-Busch and Miller Brewing Company which allowed the two top brewers exclusive advertising rights. Stroh fought the agreement and in 1983 was allotted advertising time on ABC 's Monday Night Baseball , on two NBC boxing events, and on other popular U.S. television sports shows. Confronted with nearly prohibitive network costs, the company began " The Stroh Circle of Sports " on cable television and independent stations. The program featured live events with reporting and analysis. For increased publicity opportunities, Stroh also turned to such sports as hockey—which had been overlooked by Anheuser and Miller—and sponsored broadcasts of National Hockey League games on

15038-581: The market rights. In 926, the Abbey gave three Frankish noblemen by way of exchange a hill suitable for use as a fortification, and they proceeded to build a castle there to defend their holdings against the Magyars . It came to be known as the Kyrburg . It seems that these noblemen's castle had passed by 966 to the rising family of the Emichones / Waldgraves . In the time that followed, these new owners bit by bit did

15184-470: The memorial to the war dead at the graveyard. The synagogue's address was Amthofstraße 2. A Jewish graveyard in Kirn was being mentioned as of 1555 (cadastral area called “off'm Judenkirchhof”), which presumably meant a graveyard for the mediaeval Jewish community. Its whereabouts are now unknown. In 1870, a new graveyard was laid out. It was expanded in 1915. The graveyard's area is 1 000 m . Preserved on part 1 are 33 graves, and on part 2, 21. In

15330-526: The municipal brewery of Pilsen , Bohemia in 1842. In 1865, he purchased additional land and expanded his business and adopted the heraldic lion emblem from Kirn's most famous landmark, the Kyrburg Castle , and named his operation the Lion's Head Brewery. (The lion emblem is still visible in its advertising and product labels.) Stroh's original beer selling operation consisted of a basement brewing operation and

15476-451: The murder of six Jews in Kirn. This is believed, for it did after all happen in the same year, to have been linked to the wave of pogroms that swept the region as a result of the Oberwesel blood libel (see Werner of Oberwesel ). The survivors moved away from Kirn. In the earlier half of the 14th century, however, there were once again Jews living in the town. The Waldgrave of Kyrburg, then

15622-533: The original Detroit facility was 128 years old and had a capacity of seven million US beer barrels (820,000 m) annually. As it became difficult to make efficient shipments to new markets in the East, the company recognized that it required a new brewery. The F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Company had fallen victim to the Miller "low calorie" beer wars and Stroh's absorbed Schaefer's by purchasing all of its stock. In 1981,

15768-611: The original Heileman facility in La Crosse, WI), Stroh's, and St. Ides . The Miller Brewing Company got Mickey's Malt Liquor and Henry Weinhard's . Most other Stroh/Heileman brands disappeared after 2000. As of 2009 some Stroh brands, such as Old Milwaukee and Pabst Blue Ribbon, were still brewed in Canada by Sleeman Breweries Ltd. In August 2016, Pabst partnered with a brewery in Detroit's Corktown neighborhood called Brew Detroit to begin brewing batches of Stroh's Bohemian-Style Pilsner ,

15914-466: The other giants sought to compete not by changing their flagship beers but buying microbreweries producing various specialty beers. Stroh did both. It purchased the Augsburger brand in 1989 and over the next several years developed and introduced both specialty and seasonal brews under the Augsburger name. In 1994, Stroh launched Red River Valley Select Red Lager, a regional premium specialty beer produced by

16060-524: The outlying homesteads of Akvas Papiermühle, Cramersmühle, Füllmannsmühle, Hasenfels, Kallenfelser Hof, Kyrburg, Ölmühle Spielmann and Schleif-Mühle. Yearly precipitation in Kirn amounts to some 540 mm, which is rather low, falling below average for the precipitation chart for all Germany. Kirn lies alee of the surrounding uplands. The driest months are January and February. The most rainfall comes in August. Rainfall is, however, rather evenly spread across

16206-572: The pressures of the larger brewers and chose to sell off its labels rather than face bankruptcy . The end finally came on February 8, 1999, when Stroh announced that the 149-year-old brewer was selling its labels to the Pabst Brewing Company and Miller Brewing Company . John Stroh III, then company president and chief executive, said of the decision to sell: "Emotionally, it was an extremely difficult one to make, knowing that it would impact our loyal employees, and recognizing that it would mean

16352-599: The record business with its sponsorship of Tag Records, as an endorsement for TAG Body Spray . P&G's dominance in many categories of consumer products makes its brand management decisions worthy of study. For example, P&G's corporate strategists must account for the likelihood of one of their products cannibalizing the sales of another . On August 25, 2009, the Ireland-based pharmaceutical company Warner Chilcott announced they had bought P&G's prescription-drug business for $ 3.1 billion. P&G exited

16498-674: The remaining 65 brands, which produced 95% of the company's profits. A.G. Lafley , the company's chairman and CEO until October 2015, said the future P&G would be "a much simpler, much less complex company of leading brands that's easier to manage and operate". In 2023, the company was ranked 55th in the Forbes Global 2000 . Jon Moeller is the president and CEO of P&G since 2021. Candlemaker William Procter , born in England, and soap maker James Gamble , born in Ireland , both emigrated to

16644-478: The sale of Pringles and Duracell to Kellogg's and Berkshire Hathaway , respectively, its product portfolio also included food , snacks , beverages , and batteries . P&G is incorporated in Ohio . In 2014, P&G recorded $ 83.1 billion in sales. On August 1, 2014, P&G announced it was streamlining the company, dropping and selling off around 100 brands from its product portfolio in order to focus on

16790-516: The settlement on the Hahnenbach, beginning in 1335, was time and again in documents being called Stadt ( ' town ' ). Both the market centre and the Old Town were at least partly fortified . The names of the gates that stood at the ends of the thoroughfares ( Kellenpforte, Karschpforte, Nahepforte, Schülerpforte, Kieselpforte ) are known. The last town gate was torn down in 1880 in the Old Town to make way for growing traffic. The Kyrbach's left bank

16936-650: The shield a mural coronet with three towers embattled of the second. Kirn fosters partnerships with the following places: The following are listed buildings or sites in Rhineland-Palatinate ’s Directory of Cultural Monuments: This Gothic Revival hall church , originally consecrated to Saint Pancras , with its Late Gothic quire and Romanesque steeple from the 11th or 12th century was renovated in 1992 and 1993 to give it back its original form and interior design. Inside are found several tombs of Walgraves -Rhinegraves that are worth seeing. Between 1681 and 1892,

17082-488: The spectacular natural ledge, of which the nearby formation, the Oberhauser Felsen (also called the “Kirner Dolomiten”), is also a part, that lies athwart the Hahnenbach valley. The castle is actually three castle complexes on separate crags. Standing on the lowest crag is a castle that had fallen into disrepair as early as the 16th century, called “Stock im Hane”. It has no appreciable wall remnants. On another crag stands

17228-540: The steep slopes in the higher areas are mostly bare of buildings and decked with forest. Rising up above the woodland canopy in many places are freestanding quartzite crags. Particularly striking among these are the Oberhauser Felsen, the Kallenfels and the Wehlenfelsen north of the town. Flowing through the unhurried inner town is the Hahnenbach, which rises in the Hunsrück , and not too much farther downstream empties into

17374-465: The street. The side with the eaves was framed with lesenes between which were found windows, Rundbogen windows in both the outer fields and above these tracery -filled round windows, while in both the inner fields, twinned windows with mullions , also topped with tracery. A report appeared about the consecration in the Kirner Zeitung on 26 February 1888: In February 1928, a commemorative service

17520-529: The struggling Schlitz Brewing Company . By spring of that year, Stroh had purchased the entire company, making Stroh's the third largest brewing enterprise in America: it owned seven brewing plants and according to Forbes reached the market value of $ 700 million in 1988. During the takeover, Schlitz fought a fierce battle in the courts trying to remain independent. Schlitz finally accepted the takeover when Stroh raised its offer from an initial $ 16 per share to $ 17, and

17666-428: The syndicated comedy series Throb . In 1985, they produced a game-show pilot called The Buck Stops Here with Taft Entertainment Television in 1985, hosted by Jim Peck ; it was not picked up. Procter & Gamble Productions originally co-produced Dawson's Creek with Columbia TriStar Television but withdrew before the series premiere due to early press reviews. They also produced the 1991 TV movie A Triumph of

17812-547: The top 10 for the first time. A year later it hit eighth place. Peter Stroh's willingness to depart from years of tradition introduced Stroh's to new markets, but the changes were hard to swallow for many of Stroh's fans and employees. Stroh broke the company's tradition of family management and recruited managers from companies such as Procter & Gamble and PepsiCo . He also introduced a light beer, Stroh Light . By 1978, Stroh's served 17 states and produced 6.4 million US beer barrels (750,000 m) of beer. By this time,

17958-552: The top advertiser in the country. Manufacturing operations are based in these countries: In the 2021 review of WIPO 's annual World Intellectual Property Indicators Procter & Gamble ranked ninth in the world, with 57 designs in industrial design registrations being published under the Hague System during 2020. This position is down on their previous sixth-place ranking for 65 industrial design registrations being published in 2019. Procter & Gamble produced and sponsored

18104-594: The town by car in just under a half hour. Procter %26 Gamble The Procter & Gamble Company ( P&G ) is an American multinational consumer goods corporation headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio , founded in 1837 by William Procter and James Gamble . It specializes in a wide range of personal health/consumer health, personal care and hygiene products; these products are organized into several segments including beauty; grooming; health care; fabric and home care; and baby, feminine, and family care. Before

18250-722: The town has two homes for the elderly, both under church sponsorship. Kirn is linked by Bundesstraße 41 to Saarbrücken and Mainz . Leading across the Hunsrück to the Moselle is Landesstraße 184. One can board a train at Kirn on the Nahe Valley Railway ( Bingen –Saarbrücken). The travel time on the hourly Regionalexpress trains to Saarbrücken is 1 hour and 10 minutes, while Mainz can be reached in just under an hour. Every other train to and from Frankfurt also runs through to Frankfurt Airport . Frankfurt-Hahn Airport lies some 30 km away from Kirn and can be reached from

18396-501: The town is also well known for its local brewery and the beer that it brews, Kirner Pils. Kirn's biggest employer is SIMONA AG , a worldwide-active manufacturer and distributor of thermoplastic semi-finished products, which originally grew out of the leatherware field. Further important branches of the economy are woodworking, plant construction, the hard-rock industry, packaging and automotive supply. Many small and midsize craft and retail businesses are also represented in town. Over

18542-463: The town of Idar-Oberstein and the municipalities of Fischbach , Bergen and Hahnenbach . Idar-Oberstein, Fischbach and Bergen all lie in the neighbouring Birkenfeld district, whereas all the others likewise lie within the Bad Kreuznach district. Kirn's Stadtteile are the main centre, also called Kirn, and the two outlying centres of Kallenfels and Kirn-Sulzbach . Also belonging to Kirn are

18688-566: The town's lord, took ownership of three Jews, after having secured leave from King Albrecht to do so in 1301. In 1330, Waldgrave Johann asked for the number of Jews (or Jewish families) to be raised to 15, which was likewise approved by the Emperor . Jewish life in the town was, however, destroyed in the antisemitic persecution that arose in the time of the Plague (1348-1349). It is believed that Kirn's Jewish families saw to their own institutions, such as

18834-477: The unusual position of testifying in court that they had entered into transactions that they were not capable of understanding. In 1996, P&G again made headlines when the Food and Drug Administration approved a new product developed by the company, Olestra . Also known by its brand name 'Olean', Olestra is a lower-calorie substitute for fat in cooking potato chips and other snacks. In January 2005, P&G announced

18980-558: The water from the Nahe and the Kyr consequently led to the establishment of tanning and wool processing. Reports of a woollen weavers' guild crop up as early as 1359. The tanners' and tailors ' guilds seem to have arisen about this time, too. The tanners, and the dyers , too, settled along the flat bank of the Hahnenbach. The later tanners' quarter between Gerbergasse and the Nahe only arose in modern times. Their products were marketed by both local people and those from farther afield, mainly at

19126-443: The whole year. Fog is very common for the colder season. The town of Kirn can look back on a very long history. It was founded at a river crossing near which several roads met. On 20 May 841, Kirn had its first documentary mention in a document from Fulda Abbey . Archaeological finds from Celtic and Roman times (the remnants of a villa rustica were unearthed in the part of town known as " Über Nahe "), however, point to

19272-399: The year round by Kulturinitiative Kirn . Twice each year, the hall, big enough for up to 500 people, converts itself into an exhibition hall where, for a fortnight each time, paintings and sculptures, mostly by local artists, are put on display. After intensive conversion work, the family leisure pool “Jahnbad” was opened again in the spring of 2002. Besides the 50 m-long main basin, there

19418-688: The year when Adolf Hitler and the Nazis seized power , though, some of the Jews (that year, almost 100 persons) moved away or even emigrated in the face of the boycotting of their businesses, the progressive stripping of their rights and repression, all brought about by the Nazis. On Kristallnacht (9–10 November 1938), the synagogue's interior was utterly destroyed by Brownshirt thugs, and perhaps worse, 13 Jewish homes were also invaded and demolished. Nevertheless, there were still 39 Jewish inhabitants in Kirn in 1939. The last eleven Jewish inhabitants were deported to

19564-541: Was a backyard behind the inn “Zur Krone” on Übergasse (a lane), which had once been used as a gymnasium (today a carpark occupies this spot). In 1887, the foundation stone was laid for a synagogue on Amthofstraße, whose architects and building contractors were the Brothers Benkelberg from Kirn. On 24 and 25 February 1888, the synagogue was festively consecrated. The building was conjoined with its neighbours, which all stood in an unbroken row, and its eaves faced

19710-666: Was also built up. Standing here was the church , which if anything was part of an old royal estate. As a landhold of the Archbishopric of Mainz it became an outlying centre of a great rural chapter that comprised the rural clergy all the way over to the Simmern area. Even after various divisions of inheritance, Kirn remained between 1258 and 1790 a joint holding of the Houses of Dhaun and Kyrburg. Despite its economic and ecclesiastical importance, Kirn had at its disposal since earliest times only

19856-596: Was announced by the Toronto Star newspaper. In October 2013, the company was named the fourth-most in-demand employer in the world according to analytic data sourced by LinkedIn. In August 2013, P&G was named the 14th-hardest company to interview for by Glassdoor. In November 2013, Glassdoor also named them as a top 25 company for career opportunities. In February 2014, Glassdoor placed P&G 34th on their annual Best Places to Work list. In November 2014, P&G came out publicly in support of same-sex marriage in

20002-671: Was assigned to the Kreuznach district. To the west the town now bordered on the Birkenfeld district in the Grand Duchy of Oldenburg and to the south on the Meisenheim district in the Landgraviate of Hesse-Homburg . Thus, just beyond the last houses in town began foreign territory. The economic downfall arising from this situation could not be stopped. Together with seven villages, Kirn now formed

20148-415: Was built about 1771 on Prince Dominik von Salm-Kyrburg's orders. The horseshoe-shaped building, whose front is still adorned with the princely family's coat of arms in its original form, was built by master builder Johann Thomas Petri from Schneppenbach . After the Second World War and until 1990, the building housed a fruit juicing plant. After standing empty for several years, the left wing, along with

20294-430: Was held for the synagogue's 40th anniversary. Participating at the celebration were the town's dignitaries, led by Mayor Bongartz. On 28 February 1928, the Kirner Zeitung also published a report about this: Ten years later, on Kristallnacht (9–10 November 1938), Brownshirt thugs thrust their way into the synagogue and destroyed the whole institution. Pews and Judaica were dragged outside and burnt. On 13 April 1939,

20440-688: Was one of the seats held by the Waldgraves (whose successors were the Emichones ). By the late 13th century, the Waldgraves had split into several lines, one of which named itself after the Kyrburg. In 1409, the Rhinegraves took over the holding through marriage. In the Thirty Years' War , after being occupied by the Spaniards , the Swedes and Imperial troops, it fell into French hands in 1681. Eight years later,

20586-458: Was replaced by A.G. Lafley , who returned as chairman, president, and CEO. Procter & Gamble is a member of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition , a Washington, DC–based coalition of over 400 major companies and NGOs that advocates for a larger international affairs budget, which funds American diplomatic and development efforts abroad. Fortune magazine awarded P&G a top spot on its list of "Global Top Companies for Leaders", and ranked

20732-399: Was the first company to produce and sponsor a prime-time serial, a 1965 spin-off of As the World Turns called Our Private World . In 1979, PGP produced Shirley , a prime-time NBC series starring Shirley Jones , which lasted 13 episodes. They also produced TBS ' first original comedy series, Down to Earth , which ran from 1984 to 1987 (110 episodes were produced). They also distributed

20878-512: Was the first health-related divestiture under the brand-restructuring operation. The deal included a fully paid-up license to the Vicks VapoSteam trademarks and the U.S. license of P&G's Vicks VapoPad trademarks for scent pads. Most Vicks VapoSteam and VapoPads are used in Vicks humidifiers, vaporizers and other health care devices already marketed by Helen of Troy. Later that same year in July,

21024-463: Was then sold door-to-door in a wheelbarrow. The new beer (Stroh's) sold door-to-door was a lighter- lager beer , brewed in copper kettles. Bernhard Stroh Jr. took charge of the brewery on the death of his father, changing the brewery's name to the B. Stroh Brewing Company. With the introduction of pasteurization and refrigerated rail cars , Stroh was able to ship some of his beer as far as Florida and Massachusetts . In 1893 Stroh Bohemian Beer won

21170-428: Was torn down in 1849 to make way for what was even then a growing amount of traffic. The prison there once held the thirteen-year-old Johannes Bückler – better known as Schinderhannes  – in 1796, but not for very long, for he quickly escaped. The townsfolk's self-assurance in those days showed itself in the establishment of civic institutions such as a bathing parlour and an infirmary. The great many donations to

21316-420: Was valued at over US$ 221.5 billion in October 2018. The company ranked No. 42 on the 2018 Fortune 500 list of the largest United States corporations by total revenue. As of July 1, 2016 , the company structure has been categorized into ten categories and six selling and market organizations. As of March 2024 the board of directors of Procter & Gamble has 15 members: Previous members of

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