By 1954, she ran a network of 20,000 sellers hosting Tupperware parties. 5. Tupperware (1946) Earl Tupper created airtight containers from plastic waste.

This is not your mother’s Tupperware party. The type of confab once reserved for 1960s suburban housewives placing bulk orders for plastic containers is now hawking a very different product ...

In the 1950s, Tupperware parties weren’t just about selling containers; they were about empowering women, challenging societal norms, and creating a unique social phenomenon.

Tupperware lasted forever; the plastic boxes from those Seventies home parties were in my mum’s kitchen cupboards for the next 40 years. And of course cheaper versions were introduced by rival ...

When asked what I remember about Tupperware parties, I pulled out some of my pieces of Tupperware from long ago. Along with finding the “Bacon Keeper” that I have used for perhaps 35 years to ...

Earl S. Tupper molded plastics into parties and a pop-culture phenomenon. Now the lid has been sealed on an era in American consumer culture. Months after Tupperware Brands Corp. shuttered its ...

Earl S. Tupper molded plastics into parties and a pop-culture phenomenon. Now the lid has been sealed on an era in American consumer culture. Months after Tupperware Brands Corp. shuttered its ...

09/20/2024 September 20, 2024. As Tupperware files for bankruptcy, here's a look back at how the iconic US plastic kitchenware company and its "Tupperware party" business model became a cultural ...

Tupperware has tried to sell itself for years and on several occasions received formal bids. In July, it even prepared documents for another company to take it over through a streamlined ...

Tupperware parties, which flourished in the 1950s and ‘60s, were an ingenious blend of social gathering and sales pitch, a precursor to modern direct-selling and multi-level marketing strategies.

Tupperware, one of the brands that revolutionized U.S. retailing with its famous sales parties, is entering Chapter 11 after attempts to turn the business around.

ALLEGHENY COUNTY, Pa. — Ann T. Anthony (1924-2018), wrote this story for The Associated Press in 1996. when she was 71. She was married in 1946 — the year Tupperware was introduced — and ...