From: le@main.lekno.ws   
      
   bryan_styble  wrote:   
   > The iconic company's plastic kitchenware was always top-notch in design,   
   > many items engineered with the brand's signature "burp" technology.   
   >   
   > Tupperware international corporate headquarters--a low-slung campus   
   > architectually along a highway located a few miles south of Orlando--are   
   > modest but were always handsomely maintained whenever I've motored past,   
   > and I sure hope they can turn things around under Chapter 11   
   > constraints, for I'd miss them.   
   >   
   > And that full-color "World of Tupperware" promotional film* TCM   
   > occasionally plays as one of the channel's interstitial "Extras" is a   
   > fascinating and fun industrial film...and features an onstage guest   
   > appearance at a Tupperware convention by still-living songstress Anita   
   > Bryant!   
   >   
   > BRYAN STYBLE/Florida   
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   > * Viewable on YouTube, I do believe.   
      
   I haven't kept up with the history,but I know Tupperware was   
   for some years a subsidiary of Dart Industries (the former   
   United Drug Company after it sold its Rexall drug chain),   
   which combined with Kraft Inc. (the former National Dairy   
   Products Company that had bought the Kraft foods (originally   
   Cheese) company,later rebranding as Kraftco) to form Dart & Kraft,   
   reputedly because Kraft wanted to control Tupperware...then some   
   years later (I think after Justin Dart died) Dart & Kraft became   
   Kraft again and spun off Premark International,which was all the   
   Dart Industries divisions other than Duracell,which Kraft held   
   onto until selling it to Gillette before being bought by Philip   
   Morris Companies,which became Altria,and merged Kraft with   
   previously-acquired General Foods before subsequent disintegrations   
   created today's Kraft Heinz and Mondelez (both of whose products   
   I now boycott).   
      
   Apparently Premark also disintegrated leading to the now   
   bankrupt Tupperware being free-standing.   
      
   -=-=-   
   The World Trade Center towers MUST rise again,   
   at least as tall as before...or terror has triumphed.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)