Rainbow Crafts Explained

Rainbow Crafts, Inc.
Trade Name:Rainbow Crafts
Type:Subsidiary
Industry:Toys
Fate:Merged with Kenner in 1971
Successor:Kenner
Founder:Noah McVicker, Joseph McVicker
Location:United States
Products:Play-Doh
Parent:Independent (1956–1965)
General Mills (1965–1971)

Rainbow Crafts, Inc. (traded as Rainbow Crafts) is a former toy manufacturing company created and operated by Noah McVicker and his nephew Joseph McVicker as a subsidiary of the midwestern soap company, Kutol Products.[1] [2] The company manufactured Play-Doh, a modeling compound for children. Rainbow Crafts operated under the McVickers from 1956 until 1965 when it was sold to General Mills with all rights to Play-Doh. In 1971, Rainbow Crafts and Kenner merged.

Hasbro currently manufactures Play-Doh today.

References

  1. Walsh, Tim. Timeless Toys: Classic Toys and the Playmakers Who Created Them. Andrews McNeel Publishing, 2005.
  2. http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/entry.php?rec=2623 Ohio History Central: "Rainbow Crafts Company, Inc.."