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Their television advertising song from the 1950s, through to the 1970s, was the famous "Bom, Bom, Bom, Bom, Esso Blue!" One campaign used the well-known song tune of "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" reworded as: [16] "They asked me how I knew, it was Esso Blue, I of course replied, with lower grades one buys, smoke gets in your eyes. The non-smoking ...
Esso – supplies approximately 2000 stations across Canada owned by various companies that use the Esso name under license from Imperial Oil, which is majority-owned by Exxon; Federated Co-operatives [1] – Refine and supply 386 service stations in their network of independent co-operatives.
"Bom, Bom, Bom, Bom, Esso Blue!", an Esso advertising song from the 1950s through to the 1970s; See also. Bom Bom", a 2012 song by Sam and the Womp
Despite Humble's attempts to tie Enco and Esso brands together as a nationwide gasoline marketer during the 1960s, the company was not wholly successful at competing with truly national brands such as Texaco which was then the only oil company selling its gasoline under the same brand name in all 50 states, and Shell, as Humble's strongest markets remained the Esso territory in the eastern U.S ...
Murray Westgate (April 16, 1918 – August 27, 2018) was a Canadian actor. [1] He is best known for his longtime role as a television pitchman in Canadian commercials for Esso on Hockey Night in Canada in the 1950s and 1960s, and also for his roles in Blue City Slammers, for which he garnered a Genie Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor at the 9th Genie Awards in 1988; and in the film ...
During 1937-1938, the brand was renamed to ESSO. Later in 1938, the new ESSO brand was printed on the cover sheet of the drivers manual. [11] In 1938, German-American Petroleum Company and Rhenania-Ossag, with the help of their non-executable foreign exchange reserves, took over half of Oelhag.
Esso tiger / Exxon tiger: Esso/Exxon: debuted 1964: See ExxonMobil website Erin Esurance: Esurance: 2005–2009: animated spy Eveready batteries: Eveready "9 lives" cat: debuted c. 1920s–1930s: Fantanas: Fanta (US only) 2002–present: fictional spokesmodels; sings musical catchphrase "Don'cha Wanna, Wanta Fanta!" Five incarnations since its ...
Humble's restructuring allowed both companies to sell and market gasoline nationwide under the Esso, Enco and Humble brands. The Enco brand was introduced by Humble in the summer of 1960 at stations in Ohio, but was soon blackballed after Standard Oil of Ohio protested that Enco (Humble's acronym for "ENergy COmpany") sounded and looked too much like Esso as it shared the same oval logo with ...