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Line 1: {{short description|Trade name for a scouring pad made from soap-impregnated steel wool}}
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{{infobox brand | name = Brillo Line 13: | related = | markets = | previousowners = Brillo Manufacturing Company (1913-1962), [[Purex (laundry detergent)|Purex Industries, Inc.]] (1962-1985), [[The Dial Corporation]] (1985-1997), [[Church & Dwight]] (1997-2010) | trademarkregistrations = | ambassadors = Line 20: }} '''Brillo ==History== In the early 1900s, in New York, |title=Brillo: A History of Cleaning |publisher=[[Church and Dwight]] Line 29: |url=http://www.brillo.com/crelations/history.asp |accessdate=2009-04-24 |url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090326063553/http://www.brillo.com/crelations/history.asp |archivedate=2009-03-26
}}</ref> Demand for the steel wool, copper spun and soap with By 1917, the company was selling packaged boxes of six pads, with a cake of soap included.
In 2010, Armaly Brands of [[Walled Lake, Michigan]], primarily a manufacturer of [[Sponge (material)|sponges]], purchased the Brillo business from Church & Dwight. At that time there were about 50 employees, down from a high of about 150 in the 1990s.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.crainsdetroit.com/article/20100315/FREE/100319905/walled-lake-sponge-maker-buys-brillo-brand|title=Walled Lake sponge maker buys Brillo brand|first=Dustin|last=Walsh|work=Crain's Detroit Business|date=15 March 2010|access-date=19 March 2018}}</ref><ref name=Columbus/> Line 45 ⟶ 44: ==Production== Brillo is manufactured in [[London, Ohio]].<ref name=bril/><ref name=Columbus>{{cite news |first=Dan |last=Gearino |url=http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/business/2011/02/13/if-its-brillo-its-from-london.html |title=If it's Brillo, it's from London |newspaper=[[The Columbus Dispatch]] |date=February 13, 2011 }}</ref> ==Brillo Basics== In December 2019, Innovative Brands, a division of International Wholesale, agreed to a licensing agreement with Armaly Brands to launch Brillo Basics, a line of household cleaning products.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/brillo-basics-innovative-brands-glowing-new-partnership-john-boji|title=Brillo Basics and Innovative Brands.... a glowing new partnership|first=John|last=Boji|work=LinkedIn|date=January 20, 2020|access-date=November 11, 2021}}</ref> ==In art== The most famous example of Brillo in pop art is works by [[Andy Warhol]] in 1964. Warhol did artwork on boxes with the 1960s Brillo logo. In 1970 [[Harlan Ellison]] and [[Ben Bova]] published a short story about a robot policeman titled "Brillo".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Brillo by Harlan Ellison, Ben Bova |url=https://www.worldswithoutend.com/novel.asp?id=20425 |access-date=2024-05-10 |website=Worlds Without End |language=en}}</ref> The title was a pun by Bova as a robot policeman could be referred to as metal [[List of police-related slang terms|fuzz]].<ref>{{Cite interview |last=Ellison |first=Harlan |interviewer=Tom Snyder |title=Tomorrow |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4DEEgOgyU4&list=LL&index=147&t=31s |date=1980}}</ref> == See also == Line 54 ⟶ 61: ==External links== * [http://www.brillo.com Brillo] * [https://www.innovativebrands.com/brillo.php Brillo Basics]
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