Like most inventors, Earl Tupper of New Hampshire patented numerous inventions, but his only one to score a major success and cause his name to be remembered was Tupperware.
Tupperware products are durable plastic containers having a watertight lid. Before succeeding in making these products in 1945, Tupper had worked in plastics for DuPont.
Store sales were disappointing, but in the 1940s, Tupper hired consumate Florida saleswoman Bonnie Wise, making her his marketing vice president. Her approach, selling Tupperware via the home party plan, worked enormously well, and Tupperware parties swept the nation in the 1950s.
In 1958, however, Tupper fired Wise, sold the company to Rexall, left his wife, and moved to a Central American island he had purchased. He died in 1983.
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