The Man Behind The Brand - In The Closet

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 open our closets...

Included are mini biographies of the founders of these familiar brands:

Brooks Brothers

Bulova

Calvin Klein

Gucci

Haggar

Hanes
Schaffner, Hart & Marx

L.L. Bean
Lacoste

Lee

Levi's

Ralph Lauren

Stetson