Simply sign up to the Style myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ever since I was at school, the Sunday night ritual of popping open a tin of Kiwi shoe polish and slowly breaking that ...

A leading producer of shoe polish is pulling its products from UK shelves in what’s been called “a sign of the times”. Kiwi, originally founded in 1906, is sold in more than 180 countries and produces ...

But did you know the product was founded by an Essendon family? The story of the Ramsay family, who migrated from Scotland in the late 1800s, has been chronicled in a book titled Kiwi, The Australian ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Forty years ago Fergus Ramsay was on holiday in the city of Cuzco, Peru, when he spied a shopkeeper using an Australian shoe polish, ...

It was once the staple of any family utility room, ready to be deployed on a Sunday evening before the weekly return to school or the office. But Kiwi shoe polish, once a household name, is soon to be ...

Kiwi shoe polish is a popular brand of shoe polish in Kenya and other parts of the world. William Ramsay founded the Company in Australia back in 1906. Ramsay chose the name “Kiwi” because of his New ...

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