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      • Joan Johnson, who has died aged 89, became the biggest supplier of Afro hair products in the United States. Together with her husband she co-founded Johnson Products, one of America's most successful black-owned businesses, and the first to be listed on the American Stock Exchange.
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  1. Sep 9, 2019 · CNN — Joan Johnson, who helped create one of the nation’s largest black-owned companies, has died. Johnson, 89, co-founded Johnson Products Company, the pioneering black hair care company which...

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  3. Sep 10, 2019 · Joan Johnson, who with her husband, George, founded Johnson Products, a hair-product concern that became one of the most successful black-owned businesses in the United States and the first to be...

  4. In 1954, salesman George E. Johnson, Sr., his wife Joan Johnson, and a barber who later left the company formed what would become Johnson Products with a $250 loan. [1][2] The company produced Ultra Wave, a hair relaxer aimed at men that George developed while at Fuller Products, an African American cosmetics company. [1][3] The product was ...

  5. Sep 14, 2019 · Joan Johnson, who has died aged 89, became the biggest supplier of Afro hair products in the United States. Together with her husband she co-founded Johnson Products, one of...

  6. Sep 9, 2019 · Joan Johnson, who with her husband George Johnson founded a black hair care company in Chicago that would become one of the nation’s largest black-owned businesses, died last week at age 89.

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  7. Sep 12, 2019 · Joan Johnson, 89, died Sept. 6 in her North Michigan Avenue home of natural causes complicated by lingering effects of an auto accident a dozen years ago, according to a granddaughter, Cara...

  8. Sep 10, 2019 · Joan Johnson co-founded Johnson Products Company, the trailblazing black haircare line that included Afro Sheen and Ultra Sheen. Alongside her husband, George Johnson, she founded Johnson...

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