Archive for November 19th, 2008

SunHerald.com:
Earl Tupper’s invention was more than a food storage container, vast improvement though it was over the previous standard of shower-cap-style bowl covers. The ingenious marketing network that a Florida transplant named Brownie Wise created for Tupper’s bowls turned a household product into a household word.
Tupperware parties gave birth to a modern American institution, the [...]

OttawaCitizen.com:
America’s renowned underwear company Jockey has just launched its expanded line of activewear in Canada, two years ahead of schedule.

Direct sales associates will sell Jockey Person to Person casual wear, also known as “ath-leisure wear,” through home-based businesses or “home parties” — a sales method similar to the 1950s-era Tupperware parties where hosts are rewarded [...]