Newman’s Own foods donates 100% of its post tax profits to charity. As of June 2012 these donations have exceeded 330 million dollars.
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The first product that the toy company Mattel came out with was picture frames.
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The CEO of Japan Airlines makes $90,000 a year, less than the pilots. During an interview, he said "We in Japan learned during the bubble economy that businesses who pursue money first fail. The business world has lost sight of this basic tenet of business ethics."
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The first female self-made millionaire in America was a black woman.
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In 2004, The Japanese Ice Cream Association promoted "raw horse flesh" ice cream in hopes that it would boost the popularity of ice cream!
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Nokia was once famous as a manufacturer of toilet paper.
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All 3 founders of Apple worked at Atari before forming Apple.
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When Scott Paper Company first started manufacturing toilet paper they did not put their name on the product because of embarrassment.
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