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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The former family staple is being withdrawn by its manufacturer as so many people are now working from home or wearing trainers Patrick Sawer is an experienced Senior News Reporter for The Telegraph ...

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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 ...

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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 ...