Titan Ice Hockey : 1980s

Titan is a brand of ice hockey sticks owned by Birch Hill Equity Partners through its portfolio company Sport Maska Inc. The company Titan OY was founded in Tampere, Finland in 1966 by Antti-Jussi Tiitola (1936–2021), and began by making alpine skis. Later in its first year of operations, Titan began manufacturing ice hockey sticks. Until the 1960s, hockey stick manufacturing was seen primarily as carpentry. Tiitola, an engineer by training, introduced science and technology to the design and production of sticks.

SIPEX - Washington DC – 1966

 

SIPEX (Sixth International Philatelic Exhibition, Washington, D.C., 21–30 May 1966)

Reggie! : 1978

 

3-inch 1978 promotional pinback button for the Reggie candy bar

In 1976, while playing in Baltimore, Jackson had said, “If I played in New York, they’d name a candy bar after me.” When Reggie came to the Yankees in 1978, The Standard Brands company responded with a repacking of their Bun Bar, a circular “bar” of peanuts dipped in caramel and covered in chocolate