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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 ...
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.
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 introduced the Wonderlier Bowls as part of the first wave of Tupperware containers in 1946. These bowls feature airtight seals, making them ideal for food storage, as they preserve the ...
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]
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 ]
Ed Stone, who guided NASA's breakthrough Voyager mission to the outer planets and led the Jet Propulsion Laboratory when it landed its first rover on Mars, has died. Ed Stone, JPL director and top ...
Edward C. Stone or Ed Stone (1936–2024), American astronomer; Edward R. Stone (died 2012), American swimmer and diver, later an educator; Edward Daniel Stone (1832–1916), deacon, classical scholar and schoolmaster at Eton College; Edward Durell Stone Jr. (1932–2009), American landscape architect; Ed Stone (baseball) (1909–1983 ...