Subcategories - Advertising, Marketing, Sales

  1. The A. C. Nielsen Company Pioneers in Marketing and Media Research
  2. Advertisers Adopt a Truth in Advertising Code
  3. Avon Begins Operations in China
  4. Canada Passes the Tobacco Products Control Act
  5. Cigarette Advertising is Banned from American Television and Radio
  6. Clarence Saunders Introduces the Self-Service Grocery
  7. Coca-Cola Introduces a New Formula
  8. Congress Limits the Use of Billboards
  9. Corning Glass Works Trademarks Pyrex and Offers Pyrex Cookware for Commercial Sale
  10. Denim Jeans Become Accepted as Fashion
  11. Diners Club Begins a New Industry
  12. FDA Approves Sale of Mifepristone for Nonsurgical Abortion
  13. The Federal Trade Commission Endorses Comparative Advertising
  14. The First Major U.S. Shopping Center Opens
  15. Ford Buys Jaguar
  16. Ford Implements Assembly Line Production
  17. Ford Introduces the Edsel
  18. The FTC Conducts Hearings on Ads Aimed at Children
  19. The Fuller Brush Company Is Incorporated
  20. Gillette Markets the First Disposable Razor
  21. Hasbro Advertises Toys on Television
  22. Health Consciousness Creates Huge New Markets
  23. The Highway Beautification Act Limits the Use of Billboards
  24. The Hula Hoop Is Marketed
  25. IBM Changes Its Name and Product Line
  26. Invention of the Slug Rejector Spreads Use of Vending Machines
  27. Kallet and Schlink Publish 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs
  28. Kodak Introduces the Brownie Camera
  29. Konosuke Matsushita
  30. Kroc Agrees to Franchise McDonald’s
  31. Mail-Order Clubs Revolutionize Book Sales
  32. Mobil Oil Lawsuit Draws Attention to “Green” Marketing
  33. Penguin Develops a Line of Paperback Books
  34. Procter & Gamble Begins Selling Directly to Retailers
  35. The Saturday Evening Post Publishes Its Final Issue
  36. Schiaparelli’s Boutique Mingles Art and Fashion
  37. Sears Agrees to an FTC Order Banning Bait-and-Switch Tactics
  38. Sears, Roebuck Opens Its First Retail Outlet
  39. Smith and Wesson to Change Handguns to Avoid Lawsuits
  40. Station KDKA Introduces Commercial Radio Broadcasting
  41. Thalidomide Use Prompts Passage of the Kefauver-Harris Amendment
  42. Tupper Introduces Tupperware
  43. The U.S. Advertising Industry Organizes Self-Regulation
  44. The U.S. Government Bans Cigarette Ads on Broadcast Media
  45. Vons Opens Its First Tianguis Marketplace
  46. Walter Dill Scott Publishes The Theory of Advertising
  47. WEAF Airs the First Paid Radio Commercial
  48. The Wheeler-Lea Act Broadens FTC Control over Advertising
  49. The World Health Organization Adopts a Code on Breast-Milk Substitutes
  50. Yugo Begins Selling Cars in the United States