[WORLDKINGS] World Best Academy – Mr Sheen (Australia): The best-selling furniture duster brand in Great Britain

13-10-2020

(WorldKings.org) According to Statista, Mr Sheen was the best-selling furniture duster brand in Great Britain, an estimated 7.6 million consumers in 2019.

 

 

Mr Sheen is a brand of cleaning materials, mainly floor and furniture polish, created in Australia in the 1950s by Jake Green (Shoulders).

An aerosol, the product uses a combination of silicones, waxes and solvents and is currently manufactured by Reckitt Benckiser, is a British multinational consumer goods company headquartered in Slough, England.

 

 

Alongside Australia, Mr Sheen is also available in Jamaica, Kenya, Ireland and the United Kingdom, as well as in Zimbabwe, Zambia and South Africa where it is called Mr Min and in Argentina where it is known as Mr Frend.

Back in the 1950s, the Australian cleaning product market lacked any aerosol-based products, hence the development of Mr Sheen by Samuel Taylor Pty Ltd was the first such product to be offered in the Australian market. The popularity of Mr Sheen received a large boost when the advertising agency Hansen Rubensohn developed both a jingle and a character for the product in the late 1950s.

 

 

The Australian character (supposedly modeled on one of Samuel Taylor Pty Ltd's employees at the time) was created by Vic Nicholson and Brian Henderson as a smiling, rosy-cheeked, short bald man with spectacles in a black suit; a jingle based on Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean was created at the same time by Bob Gibson and Jimmy White.

Both the character and jingle have proved effective branding agents in Australia, where 95% of the populace capable of recognising the character and jingle as belonging to the Mr Sheen product range.

 

 

In 1969, British multinational consumer goods company Reckitt Benckiser (then called Reckitt & Colman) acquired Samuel Taylor Pty Ltd; the new owners expanded the range of the product out to the United Kingdom and South Africa.

According to Statista, Mr Sheen was the best-selling furniture duster brands in Great Britain, an estimated 7.6 million consumers in 2019.

According to en.wikipedia and Statista


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