Max Factor
Max Factor & Company is a cosmetics company, founded during 1909 by Maksymilian Faktorowicz (1877 – August 30, 1938), Max Factor, a Polish Jewish cosmetician from Poland, Łódź. Max Factor & Company was a related, two-family, multi-generational international cosmetics company before its sale in 1973 for US$500 million. Presently, the Max Factor name is a popular brand of Procter & Gamble Co., which purchased the company in 1991.
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