Tupperware Awarded Top Design Honor By Red Dot

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Wed Jun 24, 2009 11:17am EDT

Tupperware Named Red Dot Design Team of the Year 2009 

ORLANDO, Fla., June 24 /PRNewswire/ -- With the most famous burp in design
history and top product production for over 60 years; Tupperware has been
awarded one of the highest distinctions in the realm of design: the 2009 red
dot design team of the year. Tupperware's design team, currently lead by Vice
President of Global Design, Susan Perkins, has consistently created
best-in-class, innovative products which are showcased around the world. The
red dot annually pays tribute to a design team that has continuously
distinguished itself through groundbreaking design and has thus set new
standards in the industry. Previous winners of the design team of the year
title include the teams of Bose, BMW, LG Electronics, adidas, Pininfarina,
Nokia, Apple, Siemens and frogdesign. 

The red dot awards presentation, honoring the Tupperware design team will take
place on June 29th at 6:00 PM in the Essen Opera House, the Aalto Theatre. 

For more than 60 years, Tupperware has pursued a unique design philosophy,
which has been embraced all across the globe. Tupperware is universally
recognizable, with 90% brand awareness. The simple, colorful products,
accompanied by the signature seals, have become characteristic of the
Tupperware brand, and follow a similar iconographic style since company
founder; Earl Silas Tupper created the first designs in the 1950s. 
Tupperware(R) products have revolutionized daily routines -- the concept is as
simple as it is ingenious; its design has unparalleled potential. Tupperware,
headquartered in Orlando, Florida is an international direct sales company and
is sold in more than 100 countries.

"For decades, Tupperware has been developing functional products with
practical value, using simple but nevertheless ingenious, and definitely
distinctive design," says Professor Dr. Peter Zec, initiator of the red dot
design award and senator of the international umbrella organisation of design,
Icsid, explaining the selection of the design team of the year. "With the
typical Tupperware design, the company has managed to give ingenious ideas an
appropriate form for many years. Tupperware's success story is an example of
continuous innovative potential, which has been shaping our daily lives for
generations. For this achievement we are honouring the Tupperware Design Team
with the highest distinction that exists in the design world."

On June 29, Susan Perkins and representatives of the Tupperware Design Team,
will come to Essen to receive the "Radius" touring cup as a symbol of their
"red dot: design team of the year" award on behalf of the team. The "Radius"
will be passed on by Michael Laude, chief designer of the previous year's
winner, the Bose Corporate Design Center. The awards presentation of the red
dot award: product design 2009 will take place in the special ambience of the
Essen Opera House, the Aalto Theatre, with more than 1,200 guests from the
fields of design, business, media, politics, and culture. At the ensuing
Designers' Night in the red dot design museum, award-winners and guests will
celebrate together into the early hours. 

Under the title "Tupperware - sophisticated simplicity advanced through
engineering", the design team of the year will present itself with its own
exhibition in the red dot design museum on the premises of the world cultural
heritage site 'Zeche Zollverein' from June 30-July 26, 2009. Additionally, all
award-winning products of the "red dot award: product design" competition will
be on display in the special exhibition "Design on stage -- winners red dot
award: product design 2009" in the museum's Schurerhalle ('Stoker's Hall').

With approximately 11,000 entries from more than 60 nations, the red dot award
is one of the leading and largest design competitions worldwide. Since 1955,
the Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen in Essen has annually selected
excellent design quality and officially honored it in an exhibition.

Tupperware Brands Corporation is a portfolio of global direct selling
companies, selling premium innovative products across multiple brands and
categories through an independent sales force of 2.3 million.  Product brands
and categories include design-centric preparation, storage and serving
solutions for the kitchen and home through the Tupperware brand and beauty and
personal care products for consumers through the Armand Dupree, Avroy Shlain,
BeautiControl, Fuller Cosmetics, NaturCare, Nutrimetics, Nuvo and Swissgarde
brands.


SOURCE  Tupperware Brands Corporation

Emily Greenberg, DeVries Public Relations, +1-212-891-0461,
egreenberg@devries-pr.com
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