Booklets
menstrual hygiene companies made for girls,
women and teachers - patent
medicine - a list
of books and articles about menstruation
See early tampons
and a list of tampons
on this site - at least the ones I've
cataloged.
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Small
Wonder:
How Tambrands began, prospered,
and grew
soft-cover book, 48 pages,
1986, U.S.A.
Company/corporate history
of Tambrands, maker of Tampax
menstrual tampons, sanitary
napkins, Draghi cancer detection
tampons, etc.
I thank the former
Tambrands for donating the
book!
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Below:
P. 43. Two
company shortcomings: marketing and
sales complacency and sales apparatus.
No serious
competitors and the single-market
Tampax tampon.
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NEXT | cover - first ad (picture)
(1936) - "a catamenial device": early Tampax history
- Ellery Mann organizes Tampax Inc. -
Tampax Inc. begins
- Tampons danger to
morality - how to sell Tampax - 3
kinds of Tampax ads
- first Tampax
ad (analysis) -
Playtex
innovations - early investors
- making Tampax
- 1937: ads expensive,
losses - success,
ads key - Tampax expands,
buys competitors - Tampax loses applicator
lawsuit, Medipax fails - Tampax women
"demonstrators" - NY
World's Fair,
educational dept. starts - medical studies - improving cotton
& machinery - heating
tampons - Tampax goes to war (WW II) -
Tampax moves to
Palmer, Mass. (1942) - how to wrap Tampax? - soaring sales in
WW II - putting the
little tube inside
the big one -
the Tampax family
- cheating the
company - boss a big
joker - 1946: drug-trade miracle - success &
Hurricane Diana -
shortcomings - losing market to
Playtex & Rely tampons - TSS: toxic shock
syndrome - Tampax recovers & diversifies
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1984: name changes to Tambrands -
Tambrands goin' good
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