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During the 1940s, Popsicle Pete ads were created by Woody Gelman and his partner Ben Solomon, and appeared on Popsicle brand packages for decades. [ 14 ] The mascot was then introduced in Canada in 1988 and featured in television commercials, [ 15 ] promotions, [ 16 ] and print advertisements [ 17 ] until 1996.
Kids II attended Kind + Jugend, an international juvenile products trade fair in Cologne, Germany. [15] The company showed 350 SKUs at the show. [15] The Atlanta Business Chronicle named Kids II one of the best places to work in Atlanta in 2013. [16] [17] In October 2013, Kids 2 acquired Baby Einstein, formerly owned by The Walt Disney Company ...
The word backpack was coined in the United States in the 1910s. Moneybag and packsack were used prior, and now occur mainly as regionalisms. The word rucksack is a German loanword mainly used in the UK, US and in other Western military forces. In Middle High German ruck(e) means "back" (dorsum), which led to the Upper German word ruggsack.
Around the same time, the frame backpack quickly became a popular way to carry older babies and toddlers. In the early 1970s, the wrap was reintroduced in Germany. The two ringed sling was invented by Rayner and Fonda Garner in 1981 and popularized by Dr William Sears starting in around 1985. [7]
Some backpack carriers come with wheels which makes it possible to convert a backpack carrier [4] into a roll-along one. Pet car-seat carriers; Used when traveling by car; these are also called car seats for pets. They provide safety of the pet and they come in various sizes, colors, and designs to fit on the seat of a car.
According to Sharma, Moser, Vermillion, Doll, and Rajagopalan (2014), they have noted that in the year 2009 only 13% of one trillion single-use plastic bags produced were recycled, the rest were thrown away, which means they end up in landfills and because they are so lightweight end up in the atmosphere blown into the environment.
JanSport is an American brand of backpacks and collegiate apparel, now owned by VF Corporation, one of the world's largest apparel companies. [1] JanSport is the world's largest backpack maker. Nearly half of all small backpacks sold in the United States are produced by JanSport and its sister brand The North Face, also owned by VF Corporation. [2]
These "Deubener Shopping Bags" could carry up to 75 pounds (34 kg) at a time, and became quite popular, selling over a million bags a year by 1915. Paper bags with handles later became the standard for department stores, and were often printed with the store's logo or brand colors.