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.
