The Man Behind The Brand - At the Candy Counter

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 on our favorite candy...

Included are mini-biographies of these founders:

Cadbury
Clark
Heath
Hershey
Mars
Nestle
Peter Paul
Reese's
Russell Stover
Wrigley