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 ...

When William Ramsay created Kiwi shoe polish in 1906, he named it so because his wife was from New Zealand. The kiwi bird also fitted well as a logo on the round boot-polish tin. The Scottish ex-pat ...

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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 ...

I don't suppose five in a hundred folks today polish their shoes.As a 3 year old as I was,Uncle Albert, fresh from Nazi Germany instilled in me the ways of spit-polishing his low quarters (shoes.)It ...

It’s a shoe polish brand that made the word Kiwi world famous - even though the business was never New Zealand-owned. Started in a two-roomed factory in Melbourne, it was originally an Australian ...

A leading shoe polish manufacturer is pulling its products from Britain due to a steady decline in popularity. Covid has seen more and more people opting to work from home, accelerating a drop in ...

A popular brand has announced it will stop selling its products in the UK. Kiwi, a well-known brand of shoe polish, has confirmed that dwindling sales means it will no longer sell in the UK. The ...