The Rise of Tupperware

• Tupperware gets its name from its inventor Earl Silas Tupper.

• Tupperware brand products made their debut in 1946.

• Tupperware seals actually expel air keeping foods fresh for longer.

• In the early 1950s a single mother called Brownie Wise joined the Tupper Corporation and introduced the "party" concept. So successful was Wise, the party concept became the company's only form of distribution.

• Tupperware was introduced to Australia in 1961 as part of a worldwide company expansion.

• These days, there is a Tupperware party being hosted every 2.5 seconds somewhere in the world.

• Tupperware is one of Fortune Magazine's most admired companies in the world, five times in a row.

• Tupperware is identified as one of the 10 greatest inventions of the 20th Century by the Guinness Book of World Records.