The Man Behind The Brand - On The Box

Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Kraft, Maytag, Hertz, Kellogg, Gerber. Nowhere to be found. How many names are more famous than Howard Johnson? Milton Bradley? Oscar Mayer? But who were these folks? Let’s take a look at the men behind the names we see on our food boxes...

Famous Amos

Baker's

Drake's

Keebler

Kellogg's

Kraft

Lance

Lay's

Lipton

Morton's

Pillsbury

Post

Reynolds

Tetley

Thomas's