1970s Virex virus spray TV commercial (they still make it - I've never heard of it)
1970s Virex virus spray TV commercial (they still make it - I've never heard of it). I guess it is for the janitorial crowd. In 1970 it was made by Johnson Wax. In 2024, it is made by Diversey. Johnson Wax bought Diversey in 2002, and they put their former Johnson Wax product under the Diversey label. Johnson sold the Diversey line in 2009. Diversey changed corporate hands 3 more times. The last time was in 2023.
Repeatedly selling a subsidiary corporation: what analogy could be used - CORPORATE CHECKERS, or CORPORATE CHESS?
Repeatedly selling a subsidiary corporation: what analogy could be used - CORPORATE CHECKERS, or CORPORATE CHESS?
Transcript
00:00It's a cozy home, isn't it?
00:12But can you be sure that it won't have some unwelcome visitors this winter?
00:15Like Hong Kong and Asian flu virus, staph and strep germs, or perhaps newer strains
00:20of flu virus?
00:21Well, we know a mother will do anything she can to protect her home against them.
00:26That's why the Johnson Wax Biology Center developed Vyrex, the new antivirus spray.
00:31It fights the viruses of this winter, the winter of 1970, and it fights them in the
00:36air you breathe, in every room.
00:40Laboratory tests prove that Vyrex disinfectant kills 90 percent, 9 out of 10, of the airborne
00:46flu virus and staph and strep germs.
00:49The leading disinfectant spray can't do that.
00:52New Vyrex, it kills the 1970 winter viruses.