Tefal

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Tefal is a French cookware and small appliance manufacturer owned by Groupe SEB. Its name is short for the combination of the words teflon and aluminium. In North America, Brazil and Japan, the company's products are sold under the name T-Fal.

Tefal is known for creating the non-stick cookware category.^[1]

In England, Tefal is best remembered for a campaign of adverts featuring 'Tefal Men', stereotypical scientists dressed in white lab coats with very high foreheads. The oversized foreheads indicated their larger than usual brains and by inference intelligence, which were purportedly applied to making the clever products the adverts were pushing. The term 'Tefal' or Tefal Man' is not infrequently applied to those unfortunate to have hair receding from their foreheads and, ideally, with higher than normal foreheads.