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thought leaders in the field. It’s all part of the
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Beth Beddow
Former, Internal Communications Specialist, GOJO Industries
Beth was the Employee Communications Specialist at GOJO where she was responsible for planning, developing, and deploying communications for team members across the globe. Beth has over 10 years of communications experience. She earned her B.A. in Business and Organizational Communication and Public Relations from the University of Akron and her M.A. in Communication Studies from Kent State University.
Always Learning from Our Successes and Failures
4/4/2022
By Beth Beddow
Former, Internal Communications Specialist, GOJO Industries
“Everything I know, I learned from someone else” is a quote from our co-founder Jerry Lippman that has become famous around our 75-year-old Family Enterprise, and that’s for good reason. Jerry valued learning as a basic right of every person, and, though he was not afforded the opportunity for formal education beyond the 10th grade, he was an ardent lifelong learner and believed in the power of both schooling and learning on the job. Today, we honor Jerry’s passion for learning by embracing Always Learning as one of our GOJO Values. Always Learning happens through formal learning, learning from the work we do every day, and reflecting on both our successes and failures.
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The PURELL® Story – Our 10-Year Overnight Success
4/4/2022
By Beth Beddow
Former, Internal Communications Specialist, GOJO Industries
The PURELL® brand has become a cornerstone of our 75-year-old Family Enterprise. While PURELL® Instant Hand Sanitizer was not developed until 42 years after our founding, it has changed our business and our world. Our innovation has grown from just one product – PURELL Hand Sanitizer – to a Total Solution for away-from-home and at-home germ management. While it’s been said that PURELL Hand Sanitizer was an overnight success, the story of how our PURELL brand became America’s most popular hand sanitizer is one that took years of unwavering vision, grit, and resilience with many learnings along the way.
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Solving Important Human Problems Around the Globe
4/4/2022
By Beth Beddow
Former, Internal Communications Specialist, GOJO Industries
In 1946, Goldie and Jerry Lippman started GOJO with very little to their name except the grit to get work done and solve a very real human problem. Our story begins in Akron, Ohio, during World War II. Goldie was a supervisor in one of Akron's rubber factories, manufacturing life rafts and rubber products for the war effort, where she and her co-workers discovered how difficult it was to clean their hands after a day’s work.
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