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Samuel Glazer
American businessman
Samuel Lewis Glazer (February 24, 1923 – March 21, 2012) was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. Glazer founded North American Systems with his business partner, Vincent Marotta Sr. [1] and the two also co-developed Mr. Coffee, one of the first automatic drip coffee makers to be introduced to the American consumer market.[2] Through their firm, Glazer and Marotta hired the engineers, Edmund Abel and Erwin Schulze of Westinghouse, whose research produced the first Mr. Coffee machines.[2][3]
Introduced in 1972, Mr. Coffee proved wildly popular with consumers and revolutionized the way Americans made and consumed coffee in their homes.[1] By 1975, just three years after its introduction, Mr. Coffee was the top selling coffee maker in the United States.[1] The industry trade publication Home Furnishings News listed Mr. Coffee as one of the most important household consumer products introduced in the previous seventy-five years in a list published in 2002.[2]