Kiwi Brands Inc. has taken the sweat out of the spit shine. The international manufacturer of shoe polish, which 84 years ago made shiny shoes synonymous with the long-beaked New Zealand kiwi bird, ...

Simply sign up to the Style myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Ever since I was at school, the Sunday night ritual of popping open a tin of Kiwi shoe polish and slowly breaking that ...

When William Ramsay created Kiwi shoe polish in 1906, he named it so because his wife was from New Zealand. The kiwi bird also fitted well as a logo on the round boot-polish tin. The Scottish ex-pat ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Forty years ago Fergus Ramsay was on holiday in the city of Cuzco, Peru, when he spied a shopkeeper using an Australian shoe polish, ...