[Newspoetry] Inventor Of Honey Bear Dies

[Mike Lehman]

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 The Associated Press Sunday, Sept. 16, 2001; 10:17 p.m. EDT 

LANCASTER, Pa. –– W. Ralph Gamber, the founder of the honey company that
was the first to package the product in the bear-shaped plastic
containers now seen on grocery stores worldwide, died Saturday. He was
89. 

Gamber founded Dutch Gold Honey Inc. in 1946 with a $27 investment in
three hives of bees at a farm sale. It grew into one of the largest
honey companies in the world. The bear-shaped plastic container was
introduced in 1957. 

Gamber also founded Gamber Container Co. Inc., a distributor of glass
and plastic containers.