Who’s a company?
I’ve had a couple of enquiries recently asking about Droyt’s company structure and I thought it might be informative to write a short piece about this. We are an independent, privately owned limited company with four main shareholders, three of whom are from the founding family.There are three directors, two of whom are involved in the day to day running of the company. We have about 15 factory employees and three supervisors.The history of the name Droyt is quite interesting in that it means nothing! It was bought ‘off-the-shelf’ in 1937 when the company relocated to England after leaving Berlin and needed a new name, which, according to the rules at the time, needed to be 50% owned by an established UK business. The partner firm was called Peter Lunt and was based in Liverpool. I don’t know exactly when their share was bought out, but it was sometime before 1950.This was the time when soap rationing ended and soap production at the factory increased rapidly, with the launch of our best seller PC49. I’ve 
been lookin through some old records recently and found some great old pictures of the factory workers when we were in Berlin. I must scan them some time and post them up here.Tomorrow is our Christmas bash so watch out Chorley! Hope I don’t feel to bad on Saturday and a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all of us at Droyt’s!