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Earl Silas Tupper (July 28, 1907 – October 3, 1983) was an American businessman and inventor, best known as the inventor of Tupperware, an airtight plastic container for storing food, and for founding the related home products company that bears his name, Tupperware Plastics Company.
Tupperware Brands Corporation was founded as The Tupperware Company in 1938 in South Grafton, Massachusetts by Earl Tupper. [4] In 1951, Tupper and his wife moved the company's headquarters to Kissimmee, Florida, where they had purchased 1,000 acres of land. [5] In 1958, Tupper sold The Tupperware Company for $16 million to Rexall. [5]
Brownie Wise (née Humphrey; May 25, 1913 – September 24, 1992) was a pioneering American saleswoman largely responsible for the success of the home products company Tupperware, through her development of the "party plan" system of marketing.
It was founded in 1942 by Earl Tupper, who developed his first bell-shaped container and introduced the products to the public in 1946. As of 2007, it was sold by approximately 1.9 million direct salespeople on contract. [3] In 2013, the top marketplace for Tupperware was Indonesia, topping Germany. Indonesia's sales in 2013 were more than $200 ...
Earl Tupper (1907–1983), American businessman, inventor of Tupperware; Edward Tupper (1871 or 1872–1942), British Trade unionist; Ferdinand Brock Tupper (1795–1874), British historian; Frances Tupper (1826–1912), wife of Charles Tupper; Henry Martin Tupper (1831–1893), American Baptist minister and founder of Shaw University
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 ...
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Stanley Roger Tupper (January 25, 1921 – January 6, 2006) was an American lawyer, World War II veteran, and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from Maine, serving three terms from 1961 to 1967.