Continued.
TYLENOL:
McNeil Labs launched the product in 1955. Its chemical name?
N-aceTYL-p-aminophENOL. (APAP)
To avoid competing with aspirin, they marketed it as a product to reduce fever in children, packaging it like a red fire truck with the slogan, "for little hotheads". Robert McNeil came up with the generic name, acetaminophen. His colleague dubbed it Tylenol for short. McNeil Labs is owned by J&J.
Tropicana North America
The Tropicana story begins with Anthony T. Rossi, who arrived in New York City in 1921 at age 21 from Italy with just $25 in his pocket. He founded Tropicana in 1947 with the mission of making the goodness of the finest fruit accessible to everyone.
The company entered the concentrate orange juice business in 1949, registering Tropicana as a trademark. The juice, Tropicana Pure Premium, became the company's flagship product in 1954 and is the third largest brand of all food products sold in grocery stores in the United States.
Between 1998 and 2021 it was a subsidiary of PepsiCo, but in August 2021, 61% of Tropicana was sold along with the rest of PepsiCo's juice brand portfolio for $3.3 billion to PAI Partners (French).
T is for talent, hidden or not.
R is for romp, you know how to have fun!
O is for orderly, a lifelong passion.
P is for passion, you're fire!
I is for independent, a balance between being overly reliant and alone
C is for calm, a pleasant trait.
A is for angelic, a truly pure heart
N is for name, a pleasant one indeed.
A is for affirm, the certainty of knowledge.
TYLENOL:
McNeil Labs launched the product in 1955. Its chemical name?
N-aceTYL-p-aminophENOL. (APAP)
To avoid competing with aspirin, they marketed it as a product to reduce fever in children, packaging it like a red fire truck with the slogan, "for little hotheads". Robert McNeil came up with the generic name, acetaminophen. His colleague dubbed it Tylenol for short. McNeil Labs is owned by J&J.
Tropicana North America
The Tropicana story begins with Anthony T. Rossi, who arrived in New York City in 1921 at age 21 from Italy with just $25 in his pocket. He founded Tropicana in 1947 with the mission of making the goodness of the finest fruit accessible to everyone.
The company entered the concentrate orange juice business in 1949, registering Tropicana as a trademark. The juice, Tropicana Pure Premium, became the company's flagship product in 1954 and is the third largest brand of all food products sold in grocery stores in the United States.
Between 1998 and 2021 it was a subsidiary of PepsiCo, but in August 2021, 61% of Tropicana was sold along with the rest of PepsiCo's juice brand portfolio for $3.3 billion to PAI Partners (French).
Quote:Where’s Tropic-Ana? Bring Her Back
We grew up and were always pals with Tropic-Ana. She not only graced the packages of Tropicana, but she was on the outside of the bright orange CSX freight trains that ran from Palmetto/Bradenton Florida to packaging plants up north.
Yes, she was topless, but somehow it was covered over by a nice sort of necklace that always stayed positioned PERFECTLY.
She was gradually phased out, somewhere in the 1990s, though the date is uncertain. She does appear in the Tropicana online company history. Today, the Pepsi-owned brand is best known for an orange with a straw coming out of it.
T is for talent, hidden or not.
R is for romp, you know how to have fun!
O is for orderly, a lifelong passion.
P is for passion, you're fire!
I is for independent, a balance between being overly reliant and alone
C is for calm, a pleasant trait.
A is for angelic, a truly pure heart
N is for name, a pleasant one indeed.
A is for affirm, the certainty of knowledge.
Quote:Tropic-Ana was portrayed as a native of the tropics. She graced the sides of the paper cartons, juice trains, ink pens, and much more advertising paraphernalia. What many may not know is that Tropic-Ana was inspired by a local resident, 4-year-old Christine Keston Pool. As a child, she often played with her friend Billy Burt, the son of Jane Beckley Burt who had been asked to design the new Tropicana logo.
As Jane drew what would become Tropic-Ana as a little girl with a French braid, she realized she was drawing Christine. This led to a short time of fame for the young Christine. She became the embodiment of Tropic-Ana at company parties and special events, as well as an early TV commercial that Christine remembers running in the New York market. Her mother made her costume which consisted of a grass skirt, lei and paper mache bowl and oranges.
Her time as Tropic-Ana was short-lived, when one day she accidently cut off her braid and was no longer Tropic-Ana. Christine Keston Pool recalled in a 50th anniversary Tropicana brochure, "I loved the attention I got. At Tropicana, I was everyone's little girl. But one day I was trying to cut the rubber band that held my pigtail, and ended up cutting the pigtail instead. It was a pretty important part of the Tropic-Ana character, so that was the end of an exciting era for me."
Tropic-Ana: The girl behind the logo - Manatee History Matters
Quote:The company is also looking for a new Tropic-Ana model to push the 50-year-old product for a 2004 TV spot. The winner will receive a $25,000 college scholarship. The company kicked off the search in New York City last week as 50 girls, ages 5 to 8, auditioned in an event hosted by talk-show host Regis Philbin. The original Tropic-Ana, Chrissie Kesten Pool, whose childhood looks inspired the company caricature in the early 1950s, was on hand at the New York festivities.
'Tropic-Ana' celebrates juice's anniversary
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