Margarine Unie
Template:Short description Template:Infobox company Naamloze Vennootschap Margarine Unie (English: Margarine Union Limited) was a Dutch company formed in 1927 in Oss by the merger of four margarine companies, Antoon Jurgens United, Van den Bergh's, Centra, and Schicht's.<ref name=yahoo>Template:Cite web</ref> Margarine Unie was the dominant producer of margarine in the UK.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
History
The company origins were in Antoon Jurgens United, a company which was founded in 1867 by Antoon Jurgens. The company introduced its manufactured margarine after acquiring the patents and rights to Hippolyte Mège-Mouriès' invention in 1871. In 1908, production at Antoon Jurgens United was 50,000 tons.<ref> Template:Cite book</ref>
In 1908, Antoon Jurgens United formed a profit-sharing arrangement with Van den Bergh's which had been formed by Samuel van den Bergh and which, like Antoon Jurgens United, was based in the town of Oss, Netherlands.<ref name=grace>Template:Cite web</ref>
Schicht's was founded by Georg Schicht whose son Johann Schicht was a German Bohemian entrepreneur and owner of a large soap-making plant.<ref>Ferdinand Bernt: "Johann Schicht, Sein Leben und Wirken", Wien 1909.</ref>
Naamloze Vennootschap Margarine Unie (English: Margarine Union Limited) was formed in 1927 in Rotterdam by the merger of four margarine companies, Antoon Jurgens United, Van den Bergh's, Centra, and Schicht's.<ref name=yahoo/> The merged entity acquired the interests of Van den Bergh's in England (Margarine Union Limited) and those of Van den Bergh's and Antoon Jurgens United in the Netherlands (N.V. Margarine Unie). The companies were set up in an agreement under which the shareholders benefited as if they had shares in a single company.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
Margarine Unie operated until 1930 when it merged with the British company Lever Brothers, to form the multinational Unilever.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>
In 2017, Unilever spun its margarine business off into Upfield (Upfield Europe BV), effectively returning the business to its old base in Rotterdam.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref>