Macleans is a brand of toothpaste manufactured by Haleon. Maclean's used to be produced by the British multinational company GlaxoSmithKline and is one of the oldest GSK brands produced.[2][3]
History
Macleans was introduced by New Zealand-born businessman Alex C. Maclean in 1919 during the post-First World War era of consumerism in Great Britain under the family business name of Macleans Limited and Beecham (now GlaxoSmithKline), whose roots originate to the 19th century.[4]
Maclean moved to Australia after the gold rush, then moved to the United States in the early 1920s to become a corset salesman, before launching his own brand for chemists, where he invented a tube printing operation that allowed different chemists' names to be printed on own name toothpastes in small batches.[4]