These parties go far beyond Tupperware - CNN

Imagine: a group of friends lounge around a living room, heart of snacks and sipping wine. At the Centre of the circle, a woman gave a presentation on its goods, sharing bits of knowledge with the hope that some women will choose to buy its products.

I have just described a typical "plan of the party,"a marketing technique."with a social event with direct sales of products" Party plans are nothing new - Tupperware, Pampered Chef and Mary Kay have been around for decades.

What makes this different scenario, is that the consultant is not hawking slicers eggs or lipstick. Instead, it shares the buzz on the latest vibrators, lubricants, and other accessories for the bedroom.

It is a way creative, free to be ashamed to put these products to women who may be sensitive or shy. But participants are walking away with more than a bag of sex toys?

Parties sex toys have been around since the 1970s, although they really begin to win popularity to the years ' 80 and ' 90. Today, these meetings were dominant, and I know that most of the women attended at least one, often to the bachelorette parties.

It is estimated that there are tens of thousands of consultants in this country, working for the pure love, Passion Parties, intimate Expressions or one of many other franchises.

As with other party plans, consultants give presentations of products, with the host generally receiving goods or a discount in return. But perhaps this is where the similarities between the parties of sex toys and, say, Tupperware parties end.

Sex toy parties beyond the simple mercantilism and can teach women about their sexuality, according to Patty Brisben, founder of the Pure Romance.

"We are not on the sale of a product - we are the education behind it", she says. "Our mission is to provide a very safe environment for women to discover and discuss sex and sexuality." The key is that people will not use their products if they do not know how to use or are intimidated. »

In fact, party lovers can rely on consultants to expand their knowledge on sexuality in General: a study by Dr. Debby Herbenick and others, 2009 in the Centre of the University of Indiana for the Promotion of sexual health concluded that sex toy party consultants are often requested specific advice of sex and may even have a history of health or sex education.

Similar research by the same authors, published in the November 2009 issue of sexual health, suggest that these parties allow women to learn more about specific topics, including improving the desire and arousal, orgasm, erection and ejaculation and vaginal dryness and lubrication.

"Animators of toy sex home party have the potential to provide a diverse group of women with opportunities of access of sexuality, information and communication," they write.

While other party plans could include testing on a recipe or showing a cure of youth, parts of sex toys tend to be more objective. Parts of the passion, for example, primarily addressing women in couples; their mission is to promote the "passionate monogamy." Surprise Parties aims to help women to achieve sexual development. And the Pure Romance focuses on the female emancipation.

"Parts of sex toys should be a platform for women who want to be responsible for their own sexuality," said Brisben. "We are the place for women get a better understanding of their needs, their desires and their wishes.". And when you understand the mechanics of what makes you feel good and why, she lets you know what to ask. »

If you are easily hurt uncomfortable or entirely uncomfortable talking about your sex life, toy sex parties can be a great opportunity to talk to your friends, learn something new and become a little - or many - more in harmony with your sexuality.

Who knows - you can even leave a few treats again. First of all, have fun. Is not that what the parties are all?

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Rick Goings Receives Honorary Doctorate | Tupperware Brands

Rick Goings, chairman and chief executive officer of Tupperware Brands Corporation (NYSE: TUP), received an honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Rollins College in Orlando during the May 13 commencement ceremony.  The ceremony was held at the Alfond Sports Center and in attendance were Dr. Lewis Duncan, President Rollins College, former Rollins College Presidents Dr. Bornstein and Dr. Seymour as well as speaker Dr. Martha Canter, Undersecretary of U.S. Department of Education.   Based in Orlando, Goings, who serves as a Board of Trustees member of Rollins College, was honored for his support of philanthropic causes and his distinguished leadership in representing Rollins. In addition to his Board service, he gave the commencement address to the college’s Crummer Graduate School of Business graduating MBA class last year and, this year, Tupperware Brands and Rollins jointly announced the creation of the Tupperware Brands Global Links Program, a yearlong externship and academic year in residence that is designed to educate Iraqi women and create a new generation of female Iraqi entrepreneurs.  “I am very proud to receive an honorary doctorate from Rollins College for making a positive impact in Orlando and in communities around the world through education and service,” said Goings.  “I feel so fortunate to work for a company that values stewardship and understands the importance of enlightening, educating and empowering women through skills- and confidence-building programs such as Global Links and through initiatives that create real social change. I feel honored to be affiliated with Rollins College and for this recognition.”

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Tupperware downgraded to "Hold" the Argus (TUP) - NASDAQ

Manufacturer of consumer products Tupperware Brands Corporation ( TUP ) Friday took a large downgrade from analysts for the Argus.

The firm said to cut its rating on TUP "Buy" to "Hold", noting that the sale is probably developed markets will remain weak for the short term.

Shares of Tupperware, which fell 2% year-to-date, displayed small losses of pre-market trading Friday.

The bottom line
Tupperware ( TUP ) shares were 2.63% dividend yield, based on last night closing stocks of $54.82. The stock has technical support in the field of price of $51. If the shares can strengthen, we see a higher resistance around the $ 60 level.

Tupperware Brands Corporation ( TUP ) is not recommended at this time, taking a Dividend.com DARS ™ rating of 3.4 to 5 stars.

Don't forget to browse our complete list of recommended Best dividend Stocks , as well as detailed explanations on our system of classification here .

The views and opinions expressed here are the views and opinions of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the NASDAQ OMX Group, Inc..

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Drag the artist is Tupperware queen - The Guardian

Artist that drag his Tupperware Dixie Longate shows bowls.

There is more than one Queen who love Tupperware and hope for a great jubilee.

Artist Drag Dixie Longate sale Tupperware more than 10 years - most recently with a stage show that doubles as a party - apparently to become one of the biggest sellers in the United States.

She says that, on two occasions, she moved the most "high-quality plastic shit" that someone else in a year and was invited to the Conference for the sale of Tupperware to collect her tiara. Known as Jubilees, these conferences are "fantastic, as a cult without the sacrifices of animals...". When I was no 1 last time I had sold $219 000 [£ 135 400] of Tupperware in one year. "Ain't that crazy?"

This is the case. But he testified that, while the star of Tupperware may have dimmed in the United Kingdom (it was a revival last year), it is still flourishing in the world. Part takes place in the world every 1.7 seconds, with sales of 1.3 $2 in 2010.

Would be Brownie Wise, pioneer of the Tupperware parties in the end of the 1940s, were surprised by a drag queen head sales rankings? Probably not. History of the company throbs high camp. Wise itself drove a pink cadillac with a Canary dyed to match and started the Jubilees as four days of fun and costumes for sellers. And although Dixie may have a particularly suggestive manner with a Tupperware-fresh cucumber, it is probably not the first. Vendors sometimes used to promote their parties with "carrot calling", with cores to a neighbour, asking them to keep one Tupperware, the other around where it would normally be. Farms results led to bumper reservations.

The history of Tupperware parties is sometimes considered bad for women; strengthen marketing of social ties and national stereotypes. But Dixie - mother of three of Alabama, who began to make the parties after periods of imprisonment and denied any knowledge of an alter-ego named Kris - is one of the many to be considered a business post-war model empowering. (Wise was, after all, the first woman to appear on the cover of Business Week in 1954.)

"Tupperware came into vogue at all these women was thrown in the kitchen," said Dixie, and it is a special way for them to start their own business. "I wanted to make a small Brownie Wise love letter and women anywhere in the world".

That and many fellatio jokes too.

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The Leaning Tower of Tupperware - and Other Tourist Attractions

The Leaning Tower of Tupperware (New Hampshire Magazine illustration by Marc Sutherland).

The New Hampshire tourism bureau just spent $130,000 on a slogan (“Live Free And…”) that I would have sold them for half that price.

But we don’t need any more coffee mug mottos to lure more visitors. We need more tourist attractions!

Luckily for state officials, I’ve laid out the perfect economic development plan in the June issue of New Hampshire Magazine (“Tourist Attractions We’d Like To See“).

Cash Cow Idea # 1: The Leaning Tower of Tupperware (Berlin, NH)

Plastic bowl tycoon Earl Tupper doesn’t generate the same reverence as NH native Franklin Pierce, but what did our 14th President ever do to preserve sandwiches? An unstable tower of Tupperware containers, simulating how they never stack right in the cupboard, would become a must-take tourist photo at the inventor’s birthplace. (Inspiration: JELL-O Museum in Le Roy, NY)

Take a look inside NH Magazine’s crystal ball for some other roadside attractions hopefully coming to a highway exit near me!

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How Tupperware Almost Didn't Make It Into Your Kitchen

Tupperware is a bit like Kleenex; No matter the brand, if it's a plastic container designed for leftovers, you probably call it by a single brand name. That's because, when it comes to designated plastic vessels that can be sealed and then opened and then resealed again, Tupperware was the first.

But Earl Tupper, Tupperware's inventor, did a lot more than just create a cleverly molded product. On the way to creating an icon, he changed plastic forever. He also almost failed completely.

Before he started inventing, Tupper established himself as an expert salesman. Way early. As a ten year old, little Earl figured out he could move more of his parents' farm's produce by selling it door-to-door.

Dude was convinced he would make his first million by the time he was thirty, and he tried a bunch of things to get there: He worked as a mail clerk, on a railroad labor crew, and even started a tree surgery and landscaping business. Although none lead to made him buckets of money (real surprise about that mail clerk gig...), he was undeterred.

In 1936 Tupper met Bernard Doyle. If success is a mix of sweat and luck, this was Tupper's moment of good fortune. Doyle headed up DuPont's still-young plastics division; a year after their initial meeting, Tupper took a job at the company. This, he said later, is where his education—and a hint at a future fortune—began.

He crammed at Dupont for a year, learning everything he could about polymers, before quitting and setting out on his own in 1938. The Earl S. Tupper Company started by molding industrial-grade plastics into things like gas masks and Navy Signal lamps. Good business during the war, but it wasn't going to make him his millions after the bullets stopped flying. Tupper started thinking about how he could bring plastics to the consumer market, where the demand for gas masks was unsurprisingly underwhelming.

He started with small stuff like sandwich picks and cigarette cases. But there was a pretty big problem with the plastics market: People really didn't like plastic. The petroleum-based material was still in its infancy and it had a bad rep for being greasy, smelly, and brittle. Think about it: Would you want a greasy sandwich pick? Would you want your tobacco picking up a nauseating eau de oil well? Plastic's bad rap was, at this point, totally justified.

Tupper saw his window, and realized that he could be the one to change the public's opinion of plastic by changing the material itself. By working out a way to purify black polyethylene slag—a waste product that comes from the oil refinement process—Tupper was able to create a plastic that was both tough yet flexible. It was also non-porous, not greasy, and see-through. It was a huge accomplishment, but even huger was how he showcased his innovation.

You know how a paint can seals up tight, opens, and then seals back up again, never letting its contents dry out? Tupper loved that seal, and realized his new material could bring the same functionality—sans screwdriver-opening—to food storage. In 1946 he fashioned a lidded container out of his clear plastic that would seal and reseal repeatedly, stopping air and liquid from escaping. It was called the Wonderlier Bowl. (He also made a "Bell Tumbler," whatever that is.) He'd fixed a known plastics problem and designed a better food container. Time to buy a new pad for all those stacks of cash, right? Nope. Two years in, his products still weren't selling.

People just didn't understand the lid's design. And based on their previous experience with plastics, they weren't willing to give Tupper's wares a shot. The product was good, but the public was in need of some water-cooler convincing.

In around 1948, though, Tupper noticed that his inventory was moving—though not off department store shelves. A direct-sales company called Stanley Home Products was selling a bunch of the stuff though a novel format: Local reps would have "parties," where they demonstrated various products to a willing audience. When consumers could check out—and, let's be honest, smell—the containers as much as they wanted, they realized the Wonderlier items were pretty awesome.

The parties were moving so much 'Ware that Tupper called a meeting with some of Stanley Home's regional reps to figure out how he could make the party his own. What he worked out there—women selling products to women in their own homes—finally brought Tupper his grand fortune. In 1958 he sold the company for a cool $16 million. The party strategy is still being used by the company today.

But the battle of public opinion lives on. In 2010 they made all their US and Canadian plastic products BPA free in an effort to keep those trendy new glass containers—the ones I still call Tupperware—at bay.

Rachel Swaby is a freelance writer living in San Francisco.

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Fundraising with Tupperware - life healthy Show. Spirit. Food

For more than 50 years, Tupperware has provided households worldwide with products of quality and service all supported by a name of trust! And now, Tupperware can offer you the same quality and service for your own fundraising campaign!

When you choose Tupperware as your funding partner, you will receive products of quality, professional sales materials and a personalised service. As important, the people who support your organization receive the same quality products, materials and personalized service they have come to expect from the Tupperware.

How your organization will benefit?

40% of retail of all sales go directly to your organizationOrganization receives payment immediately after collection of funds.Product is delivered to ten days after the order is placedPartnership with a reliable product and a name - Tupperware!

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Record number of consumer brands review of Inventions at InventHelp INPEX ® 2012 - YAHOO!

INPEX ®, greatest Invention Trade Show America, will take place on 13-15 June 2012, Monroeville Convention Center, just outside of Pittsburgh.

InventHelp the invention and exhibition of new products (INPEX) is pleased to announce more than 200 brands of consumption will be represented during the excavations of private INPEX ® product 2012, more great Invention Trade Show America. INPEX ® product provides research to the inventors of well known as the SkyMall ® companies, Tupperware ®, Clorox ®, Hampton Direct, Schroeder and Tremayne, Inc., Rubbermaid, Stanley Black and Decker, Jarden Consumer Solutions, Quickie ® Manufacturing Corporation, Jasco Products ® and Reckitt Benckiser.

Will host new INPEX ® inventors from across the United States and abroad, to introduce new products, inventions and innovations available for license, market or manufacture. INPEX ® will take place on 13-15 June 2012.

Last year, more than a thousand companies use INPEX ® as a place to search for new products to add to their existing product lines. "We are very pleased to see many companies well known in INPEX ® such as Tupperware ® and Stanley Black & Decker drivers product research at the fair." Together, these companies represent more than 200 national brands, the largest number ever participate in an invention show. "Corporate America has never been more interest in inventions," said Nicole hates, Trade Show Director.

INPEX ® will take place on 13-15 June 2012 at Monroeville Convention Center, 20 minutes from downtown Pittsburgh. If you are an inventor and are interested in the presentation of your invention or a new product to one of the above companies, please visit our website here or call 888-54-INPEX to speak with one of our representatives sales. Don't miss this opportunity to exhibit at the America's largest invention show.

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Tupperware Executive plans to swim the English Channel - Orlando Sentinel

In July, John Collingwood plans to try something only about 1,000 people in the world have done since 1875: swim the English channel.

Collingwood, a branch of Tupperware Brands in Orlando, is to swim the canal 21 miles of Dover, England, to Calais (France), to raise money for the Boys and Girls Clubs in the United States and South Africa.

The 43-year-old Collingwood, who said he led 20 marathons, was inspired by a visit he made to a Boys and Girls Club of Pimville, Soweto, in his native South Africa. He later decided to raise money for the Boys and Girls Clubs in the United States, including the Central Florida clubs. The Tupperware Brands Foundation accepts donations for clubs in his name.

"I thought that this would be something that captures the imagination of the people", he said. "It is a very difficult challenge, and people could be moved to support."

Channel swimmers who have used the same route took 6 to 21 hours.

In preparation, practical Collingwood for several hours, almost every morning in the Lake cane called Lake swim from Lucky in Orange County. Dr. Lucky Meisenheimer, a dermatologist in Orlando, which allows swimmers of water free to use its dock, stated that it considers that Collingwood would do very well, but it is concerned about how his friend treats the cold waters.

Collingwood is concerned, too, so he put a few miles in the cold water off the coasts of New York and in South Africa. He also took ice baths to prepare for the temperature of the water which could be as low at 48 degrees.

"It is quite another level of challenge for me with cold water, jellyfish, flotsam and jetsam," he said.

Officials with the Channel Swimming Association will be the riveted eyes of a boat such as swimming of Collingwood. His support team will have food, drinks and other loans.

All stored in Tupperware containers, of course.

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25 Tupperware GC - Mama Does It All

Mama loves celebrations!   I’m thrilled to help celebrate the launch of BloggerPR,  a brand new support and media group for bloggers. Over 50 blogs are giving away some amazing prizes valued over $25! This event will run from May 21-27, 2012. Join us as we kick off a brand new and exciting venture for our members!
Here at Mama Does It All we are giving away a $25 GC to Tupperware!

Tupperware is all about solutions!  From trying to be more green to saving money by using reusable containers, Tupperware can help you find stylish solutions.
This giveaway is open to residents of the US and Canada.  Please use the Giveaway Tools form below to enter and be sure to visit the other blogs listed below to enter other great giveaways!

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