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Tazos started out with a set of 100 disks featuring the images of Looney Tunes characters and 124 Tiny Toons tazos in 1994. The disks were added to the products of Mexican snacks company Sabritas and were named after the expression taconazo (to kick with the heel) which was a reference to another popular school game in Mexico where children open bottles with their shoes trying to launch the ...
Seeing a need for winter work at the Dickinson Clay Products Company, Howard Lewis started pottery production in 1934 to keep the plant running year round. In 1935 he was joined by Charles Grantier who had trained under Margaret Cable at the University of North Dakota and who was very familiar with the properties of North Dakota Clay.
Gary Tharaldson (born 1945) is an American entrepreneur and founder of the Tharaldson Companies. [1] As of 2019, Tharaldson is the wealthiest individual in North Dakota. Gary Tharaldson was born in and grew up in Dazey, North Dakota. He graduated from Valley City State University with degrees in business administration and physical education.
Joseph Dixon (1799–1869) was an inventor, entrepreneur and the founder of what became the Dixon Ticonderoga Company, a well-known manufacturer of pencils in the United States. His fascination with new technologies led to many innovations such as a mirror for a camera that was the forerunner of the viewfinder , a patented double-crank steam ...
“I became a self-made millionaire through real estate by starting small and scaling up,” he said. “My first investment was a small duplex that I rented out, and from there I expanded to ...
Harold Schafer (February 1, 1912 – December 2, 2001) was a North Dakota businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Gold Seal Company, the original maker of Mr. Bubble. He also was a major benefactor in the tourist town of Medora, North Dakota and the Medora Musical .
In 1891, he moved to Montana where he worked in real estate. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] He moved to Boston in 1895 and co-founded Randall and Becton, a medical thermometer company. [ 4 ] [ 3 ] While in Texas on a sales trip, he met Fairleigh S. Dickinson (1866–1948), co-founder of Becton Dickinson and the named benefactor of Fairleigh Dickinson University ...
Lloyd Eugene Rigler (May 3, 1915 – December 7, 2003) [1] [2] was an American businessman and philanthropist.As a businessman, he and a partner, Lawrence E. Deutsch, made Adolph's Meat Tenderizer a national brand. [3]