Goya
Douglas Collins (b.1912) started developing perfumes (unusual for an English man in a business dominated by the French)
1938 Collins' products were discovered by beauty editors[1]
1947 Company incorporated
1958 Jane Seymour owned all the shares in Goya at the time that its parent, J. C. and J. Field Ltd, was acquired by E. Griffiths Hughes of Manchester[2]. Jane Seymour and D. R. Collins were subsidiaries of Fields and were to be sold to the chairman of Fields, Douglas Collins, and his family.
1960 D. R. Collins, including Goya, was acquired by Reckitt and Sons[3]
1968 Douglas Collins and his family bought back the Goya scent business (except for a few particular product lines) from Reckitt and Colman[4]
1969 Goya sold the Jane Seymour cosmetics business to Rimmel[5]