The Man Behind The Brand - In the Tool Shed

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 keeping up the house...

Black and Decker

Burpee

Coleman

Deere

Glidden

Johnson's

Scott's

Sherwin-Williams

Stanley

Weyerhauser

Yale