The Man Behind The Brand - Around The House

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 when we look around our house.

Andersen
Armstrong
Bissell
Carrier
Culligan
Fuller Brush
Hoover
Jacuzzi
Johns Manville
Maytag
Oster
Simmons
Singer
Steinway
Tappan
Tupperware