 At the Sydney International Exhibition they won a bronze medal "against all-comers from every part of the world", the only first prize awarded for soap and candles.Following World War I the company was sold to Messrs Lever & Kitchen (today Unilever), and the factory closed in the mid-1930s.In 1911, BHP (Broken Hill Propriety) chose the city as the site for its steelworks due to the abundance of coal.