!!!Apollo-Kerzenfabrik

Apollo-Kerzenfabrik (candle factory), a forerunner of  Unilever GmbH 
in Austria, founded 1839 in the former Apollosaal (ballroom) in the 
7%%sup th/%  district of Vienna, produced stearin candles and (from 
1875) margarine (at the branch which had opened in 1846 at Penzing, 
the 14th district of Vienna); merged with Schicht company in 1911, 
produced fine soap from 1918. The building in the 14th district of 
Vienna was sold in 1939 and later demolished.

!Further reading
F. Czeike, Historisches Lexikon Wien, 5 vols., 
1992-1997.


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