Tupperware (mainstream MLM, bankruptcy 2024)

Evidence by BITE axis

Timeline

1. 1948
   Tupperware founded by Earl Tupper
2. 2024-09
   Chapter 11 bankruptcy

Evidence matrix

Structured sources cross-linked to the claims they document. Tiered per the source hierarchy. For free-text citations see the Sources section below.

SEC filings

TUPPERWARE BRANDS CORP (delisted; filings retained) · CIK 1008654 · Plastics Products, NEC

• Latest reported fiscal-year revenue (FY2022): $1.30B
• Most recent annual report (10-K) filed 2023-10-13 — filing index

Figures verbatim from the company’s XBRL filings via the SEC EDGAR API; retrieved 2026-08-24. Public-record data, not an assessment.

Sources

• Tupperware Chapter 11 filing 2024 search ↗
• Jon and Sylvia Boyd Tupperware Films collection — https://sova.si.edu/record/nmah.ac.0870/contents open ↗
• Tupperware's Sweet Spot Shifts to Indonesia — https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/world/asia/tupperwares-sweet-spot-shifts-to-indonesia.html?_r=0 open ↗
• The party is over' as Tupperware files for bankruptcy after years of troubles — https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/18/business/tupperware-files-bankruptcy/index.html open ↗
• Secret History Of: Tupperware — https://www.independent.co.uk/property/interiors/secret-history-of-tupperware-2100910.html open ↗
• Entrepreneur Brownie Wise: Selling Tupperware to America's Women in the 1950s — Journal of Women's History (2010) — https://doi.org/10.1353%2Fjowh.0.0159 open ↗
• What is today's American Dream? — https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12688643 open ↗
• Tupperware Spinoff Is Set for May 31 — https://www.nytimes.com/1996/05/20/business/tupperware-spinoff-is-set-for-may-31.html open ↗
• Party Is over for Tupperware UK — http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2685755.stm open ↗
• Did Tupperware Parties Change the Lives of Women? — https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13331830 open ↗
• Tupperware Freshens Up the Party — https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/07/business/07interview.html open ↗
• The famous Kiwi party's over: Tupperware closes lid on NZ operation — https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/after-half-a-century-tupperware-closes-lid-on-nz-operation/AR2QI2JBLJUQPUJUDKZAPMR34I/ open ↗
• Burger King franchise still operating in Russia despite pledge to quit — https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/ukraine-war-burger-king-franchise-leave-russia-moral-rating-agency-b1110949.html open ↗
• Tupperware stock plunges after warning it could go out of business — https://edition.cnn.com/2023/04/10/investing/tupperware-trouble/index.html open ↗
• Tupperware: Why the household name could soon be history — https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65243711 open ↗
• Tupperware brings on Moelis & Co to help explore strategic alternatives — https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/tupperware-brings-moelis-co-help-explore-strategic-alternatives-2023-05-08/ open ↗
• Ideal World shopping channel goes into administration — https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-66123542 open ↗
• Tupperware Brands plans to file for bankruptcy, Bloomberg News reports — https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/tupperware-brands-plans-file-bankruptcy-bloomberg-reports-2024-09-16/ open ↗
• Preserving Domesticity: Reading Tupperware in Women's Changing Domestic, Social and Economic Roles* — Canadian Review of Sociology/Revue canadienne de sociologie (2003) — https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1755-618X.2003.tb00242.x open ↗
• How MLMs — multilevel marketing schemes — are hurting female friendships — https://www.chicagotribune.com/business/ct-biz-mlm-female-friendship-costs-20190122-story.html open ↗
• Tupperware to End Partnership with Target Stores — https://www.nytimes.com/2003/06/19/business/company-news-tupperware-to-end-partnership-with-target-stores.html open ↗
• Why Short Sellers Want to Crash the Tupperware Party — https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/13/business/why-short-sellers-want-to-crash-the-tupperware-party.html open ↗
• Film of Tupperware annual jubilee event, "Wishes Do Come True — https://mads.si.edu/mads/view/NMAH-AC0870-OF0001-000003 open ↗
• Film of Tupperware annual jubilee event, "Arabian Nights Jubilee — https://mads.si.edu/mads/view/NMAH-AC0870-OF0003-000002 open ↗
• Film of Tupperware annual jubilee event, "Land of Ours Jubilee — https://mads.si.edu/mads/view/NMAH-AC0870-OF0004-000002 open ↗
• Film of Tupperware annual jubilee event, "Wonderland Jubilee — https://mads.si.edu/mads/view/NMAH-AC0870-OF0005-000002 open ↗
• Tupperware, pionera en recipientes para alimentos, se declara en quiebra — https://www.nytimes.com/es/2024/09/18/espanol/negocios/tupperware-quiebra.html open ↗
• lire en ligne — https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65237293?at_link_origin=BBCWorld&at_link_id=04BF0CA4-D850-11ED-BC77-1E9FFF7C7F44&at_bbc_team=editorial&at_link_type=web_link open ↗
• Tupperware ferme son seul site français, 235 postes supprimés — https://www.francetvinfo.fr/economie/emploi/tupperware-ferme-son-seul-site-francais-et-supprime-235-postes_2427501.html open ↗
• La libération par Tupperware ? — Clio (2009) — https://dx.doi.org/10.4000/clio.9238 open ↗
• Union List of Artist Names — https://www.getty.edu/vow/ULANFullDisplay?find=&role=&nation=&subjectid=500330449 open ↗
• FORM 10-K 2022. — https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0001008654/000100865423000079/tup-20221231.htm open ↗
• Tupperware kommt in fünf Ländern zurück. — https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/tupperware-kommt-in-fuenf-laendern-zurueck-a-efe00c34-8052-439b-91bc-5a0c09750588 open ↗
• Did you know Tupperware was made in Leominster? — https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0jrlb5z open ↗
• theguardian.com — https://www.theguardian.com/world/1999/nov/25/simonjeffery open ↗
• Doodles, Drafts & Designs: Industrial Drawings from the Smithsonian. — https://www.sil.si.edu/exhibitions/doodles/innov_tupper.htm open ↗
• Tupperparty-Pionierin Geschäftsfrau in Schüssel-Position. — https://www.spiegel.de/geschichte/60-jahre-tupperparties-tupperware-mitarbeiterin-brownie-wise-a-947728.html open ↗
• CORPORATIONS: Darting Ahead. — https://time.com/archive/6841905/corporations-darting-ahead/ open ↗
• Mit BH-Schleudern gegen die Krise. — https://www.spiegel.de/wirtschaft/0,1518,614068,00.html open ↗
• 2013 Form 10-K Report_, auf www.sec.gov — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1008654/000100865414000004/tup10k122813.htm#s2A1FDCDC1777488A676F6D38B0DCBEC1 open ↗
• Tupperware bekommt einen auf den Deckel. — https://www.tagesschau.de/wirtschaft/boerse/tupperware-aktie-101.html open ↗
• Tupperware lenders oppose company's proposed bankruptcy sale. — https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/tupperware-lenders-oppose-companys-proposed-bankruptcy-sale-2024-09-19/ open ↗
• exhibit101goldmanofferle. — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1008654/000100865423000083/exhibit101goldmanofferle.htm open ↗
• Brownie Wise Papers. — http://americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d7509.htm open ↗
• Nach der Verkaufsparty kann die Ernüchterung folgen. — https://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/2.220/homeshopping-nach-der-verkaufsparty-kann-die-ernuechterung-folgen-1.900938 open ↗
• Производитель пищевых контейнеров Tupperware объявил себя банкротом — https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/7165201 open ↗
• Tupperware Corporation – Form 10‑K for fiscal year 2003 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1008654/000119312504038303/d10k.htm open ↗
• Tupperware Brands Corporation – Form 10‑K for fiscal year 2021 — https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1008654/000100865422000008/tup-20211225.htm open ↗
• The party is over' as Tupperware files for bankruptcy after years of troubles — https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/18/business/tupperware-files-bankruptcy open ↗

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