It was once the staple of any family utility room, ready to be deployed on a Sunday evening before the weekly return to school or the office. But Kiwi shoe polish, once a household name, is soon to be ...

HOW sad somehow to read that Kiwi, makers of shoe polish, are giving up in Britain, as few folk polish their shoes any more, and most wear trainers. Even the City of London, someone said, looks like a ...

It’s a shoe polish brand that made the word Kiwi world famous - even though the business was never New Zealand-owned. Started in a two-roomed factory in Melbourne, it was originally an Australian ...

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 ...