Toastmaster (appliances)
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Toastmaster started out in 1926 as the name of one of the worlds first automatic electric toasters for home use, the Toastmaster Model 1-A-1. Since then the Toastmaster brand has been used on a wide range of small kitchen appliances , such as coffee makers, waffle irons, toasters, and blenders.
From 1928 until 1980, the brand was owned by McGraw Electric, renamed to McGraw-Edison in 1957. Following a leveraged buyout in 1980 the brand changed hands several times and finally went public in 1992 as Toastmaster Inc. The company , headquartered in Boonville, Missouri., was acquired by Salton Inc. in 1999.
For history of Toastmaster with a time line and a brief list of references please refer to http://www.toaster.org/tmaster_history.html.
