The John Oster Manufacturing Company was a maker of small appliance

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s. The Oster brand

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 is continued today as a trademark

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 of the Sunbeam Corporation.

The firm was begun in 1924 by John Oster, manufacturing manually powered hair clippers designed to cut men's hair. In 1928, they introduced a motor-driven clipper.

In 1946, in order to diversify, the John Oster Manufacturing Company bought the Stevens Electric Company, which had received a patent on the liquifying blender

Blender

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 in 1922. After the acquisition, the brand “Osterizer

Osterizer

Osterizer is a brand which has been used by Oster Manufacturing for its line of blenders since 1946. It is claimed to be the first mainstream brand of blender, though technically the Waring blender brand was introduced in 1937....

” was adopted for these blenders.

In2011, Oster Manufacturing was acquired by Sunbeam.