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Sterilite was founded in 1939 in Fitchburg, Massachusetts as a partnership between Saul and Edward Stone and Earl Tupper, the inventor of Tupperware. The company gained initial business by selling plastic goods to the Armed Forces during World War II. The company later expanded operations to produce toys, storage tools, giftware, and other ...
Bomgaars Supply Inc. (doing business as Bomgaars and stylized as bomgaars) is a retail chain of farm and ranch supply stores headquartered in Sioux City, Iowa.Bomgaars serves the Midwest, High Plains, and Rockies with stores in Iowa, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Idaho, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri and Texas.
Wallingford is a city in Emmet County, Iowa, United States. The population was 165 at the 2020 census. History. Wallingford was platted in 1882. [2] Geography
Albert Stone (March 25, 1928 – December 12, 2023) was an American businessman and philanthropist from Townsend, Massachusetts who was the owner of Sterilite. Early life [ edit ]
The Container Store was founded in Dallas by Garrett Boone and John Mullen. With the backing of their families, they inaugurated the first The Container Store on July 1, 1978. The store introduced a new retailing category: home storage and organization. [2] [3] Kip Tindell and his wife joined the founding team the next year.
Ziploc is an American brand of reusable, re-sealable sliding channel storage bags and containers originally developed and test marketed by Dow Chemical Company in 1968 and now produced by S. C. Johnson & Son. The plastic bags and containers come in different sizes for use with different products. The brand offers sandwich bags, snack bags and ...
The United States' overall beverage container recycling rate is approximately 33%, while states with container deposit laws have a 70% average rate of beverage container recycling. Michigan's recycling rate of 97% from 1990 to 2008 was the highest in the nation, as is its $0.10 deposit. [ 2 ]
The Brugjeld–Peterson Family Farmstead District, also known as Lakeside Farm and the Peterson Point Historical Farmstead, is a historic district in rural Emmet County, Iowa, United States, near the town of Wallingford. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. [1]