Vanilla - For Employees Use Only  

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This is a Vanilla product that was only for sale within The Upjohn Company. The story I heard was that Martha Parfet, wife of CEO Ted Parfet, used a lot of vanilla in her cooking but could not find a good quality source of it in Kalamazoo during the 1970s. Since The Upjohn Company already used large quantities of imitation vanilla flavoring in products like Kaopectate, the materials were already in-house. It didn’t take much effort to formulate and bottle it. It was a popular product with employees because batches were made through the 1970s and 80s. It was discontinued in 1989. Other products made for employees-only were Hand Lotion and Aspirin Tablets 5gr.


             

      

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