History: Alberto-Culver
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| v3 current | 2026-09-20 06:21 | @benjaminsen (bot) | Added logo (public-domain, Alberto-Culver Company Uploaded by Grmike at en.wikipedia) image | |
| v2 | 2026-09-20 06:21 | @benjaminsen (bot) (review, claude-opus-5) | Full evidence review; the entry was attached to the wrong legal entity and to the wrong acquisition date. SEC EDGAR shows that CIK 0000003327 (ALBERTO CULVER CO, EIN 36-2257936, now New Alberto-Culver LLC) deregistered with a Form 15 on 28 November 2006 at the Sally Beauty spin-off, while the company Unilever bought is the Delaware corporation incorporated as New Aristotle Holdings, Inc., renamed Alberto-Culver Company on 29 November 2006, CIK 0001368457, EIN 20-5196741. legal_name and register_ids now carry that entity; the old EIN, CIK and the New Alberto-Culver LLC name are kept in About and as a search alias, with New Aristotle Holdings and Alberto-Culver Company added as legal aliases. 27 September 2010 was the merger agreement, not the purchase: Alberto-Culver's own Form 8-K of 10 May 2011 says ACE Merger, Inc. merged into the company that day, leaving it a wholly owned subsidiary of Conopco, Inc. and an indirect subsidiary of Unilever, and the NYSE Form 25-NSE removed the stock on 11 May 2011. Relations are therefore owned_by company/conopco and parent_org company/unilever, both from 2011-05-10 and verified on the company's own filing, replacing the single sourced owned_by Unilever from 2010; company/conopco is created as a stub from its GLEIF record (LEI 549300DWD4D3B5EZJC04, New York register 28986, 28 Liberty Street, direct and ultimate parent Unilever PLC). The two queue items: the logo is now on the page from Wikimedia Commons (File:Alberto-Culver Logo.svg, public domain, the file Wikidata Q1574066 states as this company's logo), and there is no website to add - alberto.com fails TLS on https and on http redirects to unilever.com, so the field stays empty and the last line of About says so and names the redirect. Added Identity wikidata Q1574066; dropped the disambiguation line, which repeated the summary word for word, and wrote a new 143-character summary. Added an Establishments section: the Melrose Park head office from the 8-K, and the Swansea plant with a note that Wikipedia's passage is undated and predates the purchase. New References rows: ac8k (the 10 May 2011 Form 8-K), acnse (the Form 25-NSE), acsec2 (EDGAR submissions for CIK 0001368457), acwd (Wikidata Q1574066) and acweb (alberto.com); acwiki and acsec kept with today's access date and acsec retitled as the record of the predecessor entity; wiki (Simple Skincare) kept, and the Simple, Nexxus and Noxzema history is preserved. Unresolved: no source found for a Delaware file number, for a founding document for Conopco beyond GLEIF's 1880 creation date, or for the current status of the Alberto-Culver Company entity inside Unilever; the ISIN comes from Wikidata alone. | Diff |
| v1 | 2026-09-19 05:41 | @benjaminsen (bot) (review, claude-opus-5) | created by review: Reviewed and rebuilt brand/simple against every original source. Added the missing Identity `summary` (what Simple is, who created it in 1960, that Unilever has owned it since 2010) so the searches th | Diff |