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Tab is a sugar-free diet soda introduced by the Coca-Cola Company in 1963. It was the second diet soda ever marketed, after Royal Crown's Diet Rite soda, which was introduced in 1958. Originally containing cyclamate, Tab started using saccharin after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration banned cyclamate in 1969. Tab carried a warning label since saccharin was once thought to be hazardous itself, but ceased doing so when the FDA revoked mandatory warning labels in 2000. Saccharin was removed from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's list of hazardous substances in 2010.

Tab's popularity decreased with the introduction of Diet Coke in 1982, and it began using a small amount of aspartame blended with saccharin in 1984. Though Diet Coke is the top-selling diet soda, Tab still sold about 3 million cases in 2008.

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The Staple-Master stapler was made during the 1940s and 1950s. It was a version of the "modern" stapler or the "four way paper stapler" meaning it could be used to staple paper to wood or cardboard, to pin, tack or to staple papers together.

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High Standard Firearms was an American-based company that manufactured firearms.  The company was founded in Connecticut in 1926 and fully relocated to Houston, Texas in 1993.  Originally, High Standard was a distributor to other firearms companies in and around the Connecticut area.  In the early 1930's, the company began making and selling .22 caliber pistols after purchasing the Hartford Arms and Equipment Company. High Standard Firearms ceased operations in 2018.

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Founded in 2001, SnackTime is a vending machine distributor that operates throughout the United Kingdom with their main office located in London. They provide a variety of options, such as snacks, coffee, and water coolers along with cold beverages.

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In 1978, Pepsi promoted a campaign to switch their bottling methods, due to consumer preferences, to a different type of bottle.  Consumers requested bottles to be lightweight and plastic instead of glass, making the product lighter and less likely to break.  Pepsi was the first company to switch their bottles from glass to plastic. They also introduced the industry's first two-liter bottle.

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Ms. Magazine, the first nationally-distributed magazine run entirely by women, was co-founded by second-wave feminist activists Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman Hughes. The magazine began as a one-off insert in the December, 1971 issue of New York Magazine, where Steinem was a staff writer. The first regular issue of the magazine came out in July, 1972, and sold out in eight days. The premier issue featured one of the magazine’s iconic articles, “We Have Had Abortions," a feature that named 53 prominent women who had had abortions—at a time when the procedure was still illegal. Ms. was also the first national publication to address the issue of domestic violence. The magazine has gone through four ownership changes in its tenure, and is now published under the umbrella of the Feminist Majority Foundation. 

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Matilda Bay Coolers were a popular wine cooler brand crafted by the Miller Brewing Company from 1987 to 1989. The coolers were advertised as an Australian-themed alcohol with a kangaroo mascot named Skippy. By 1989, the coolers were the fourth highest selling wine cooler, but only "held 7.5 percent of the market" (Lazarus, 1989).  Miller decided to discontinue the coolers as sales declined further (Lazarus, 1989). 

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Kentucky Fried Chicken was founded by Harland David Sanders during the Great Depression, when Shell Oil Company offered Sanders a service station in exchange for a percentage of the total fuel sales.  As the service station proved successful, Sanders decided to open his first restaurant.  In the mid 1930's, the Governor of Kentucky commissioned Sanders as the Kentucky Colonel.  Colonel Sanders branded himself as the face of all Kentucky Fried Chicken advertising as the restaurant opened new franchises through the 1950s.  In 1964, Sanders sold the company but stayed on as a goodwill ambassador and face of Kentucky Fried Chicken.  At present, Kentucky Fried Chicken still uses Colonel Sanders and the original images in their advertising campaigns.