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Woolmark
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thumb|upright|Street scene in Midtown Manhattan in 1973, with a large rooftop billboard for "Pure Wool" and the Woolmark Woolmark is a wool industry certification mark used on pure wool products that meet quality standards set by The Woolmark Company. It is a trade mark owned by The Woolmark Company, which has since 2007 been a subsidiary of Australian Wool Innovation Limited (AWI). The logo was launched in 1964 by the Woolmark Company under its previous name, the International Wool Secretariat.
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company
- Founded
- 1997
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
- Also known as
- Australian Wool Research and Promotion Organisation
- Status
- Active
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Official website
The Woolmark Company
The Woolmark Company is the global authority on Merino wool and owns the Woolmark logo, a quality assurance symbol applied to more than 6 billion products.
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- inception
- 1964-01-01
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- Woolmark
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thumb|upright|Street scene in Midtown Manhattan in 1973, with a large rooftop billboard for "Pure Wool" and the Woolmark Woolmark is a wool industry certification mark used on pure wool products that meet quality standards set by The Woolmark Company. It is a trade mark owned by The Woolmark Company, which has since 2007 been a subsidiary of Australian Wool Innovation Limited (AWI). The logo was launched in 1964 by the Woolmark Company under its previous name, the International Wool Secretariat.
==History== The Woolmark logo was developed by the International Wool Secretariat (IWS), which had been founded in 1937. The logo was launched in August 1964 by IWS, then under the control of two Australians, chairman William Archer (Bill) Gunn (1914-2003) and William Vines (1916-2011) as managing director.