The Gerber Baby
The "Gerber Baby" symbol was initiated to reassure mothers and grocers that the concept was sound and to help identify the product. The sales in the first year was over a half million cans which produced gross revenues exceeding a third of a million dollars. During the Great Depression of the 1930s the canning company expanded its baby food lines. Some of the techniques they employed to increase its production output were:
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- published child care pamphlets
- helping farmers improve their crops
- hiring of special scientists for food laboratory experiments
- issuing classroom guides for home economics and nutrition classes.
Read more about this topic: Fremont Canning Company
Famous quotes containing the word baby:
“As one child psychologist friend of mine explains it with tongue in cheek, your baby only needs a lot of light at night if he’s reading or he’s entertaining guests.”
—Lawrence Kutner (20th century)