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Fuller had evidence that women could succeed at sales since Stanley Beveridge—who had left his position as Fuller's sales vice president in 1929—had (by 1949) employed women as "dealers" to grow sales at his own company, Stanley Home Products, to $35 million, exceeding Fuller's sales for the first time.
In 1976, Fuller, as a result of health problems, asked his top distributor, Joe Louis Dudley, Sr., to move to Chicago and become President of the Fuller Products Company. Dudley ran both Fuller Products Company and Dudley Products Company from 1976 until 1984. In 1984, Fuller Products Company was purchased by Dudley. Fuller was eighty-three ...
Of course, all of Stanley's bestsellers are available in this new trio of holiday hues: the Quencher H2.0 Flowstate Tumbler, IceFlow Flip Straw Tumbler, Stay Hot Camp Mug, All Day Slim Bottle ...
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. She initially worked as a salesperson for Stanley Home Products to supplement her income, before ...
H.B. Fuller was founded in 1887 by Harvey Benjamin Fuller in St. Paul, Minnesota, as a one-person company making glue for wallpaper. [4] [5] By the 1890s, Fuller's inventions included wall cleaners and the company had business throughout the United States. [6] It incorporated in 1915, and in 1921, Harvey Jr. took over as president. [7] [5]
In 1960 he met Eunice Mosley, who was also selling Fuller products on a door-to-door basis. They married the following year. [3] The Dudleys settled in Greensboro, where they opened a Fuller distributorship. When there was a shortage of Fuller products in 1969, they began manufacturing and selling their own line under the Dudley Products label. [3]
In early 1924, Thomas B. Stanley resigned from his position at Basset Furniture in order to start his own company, Stanley Furniture. He founded the company in his home county of Henry County, Virginia and brought on his nephew, Fred A. Stanley, and his brother, John W. Stanley, as some of the company's first employees. While building the first ...
Fuller Brush went on to be recognized throughout North America, even inspiring two comedy films, The Fuller Brush Man (1948) and The Fuller Brush Girl (1950). In 1961, Fuller recorded the secrets to his success on Folkways Records on an album entitled, Careers in Selling: An Interview with Alfred C. Fuller. [4]