HAUPPAUGE, NY - E tatau ia Briggs & Riley le faʻaaloalo e faʻamama ai le tiga o tua leaga, fesoasoani i mafutaga faʻaipoipo ma faʻatagaina tagata e feoaʻi sologa lelei, ma fesili ai le toatele oi tatou, "O le a le mea na tatou faia aʻo leʻi faia ni atopaʻu uili?" O le masina o Oketopa, 2010 e atoa i ai le 40 tausaga talu ona fausia e le kamupani o uta uili. E ui lava i se faʻamoemoe e faʻavavau i le taimi nei e iai ni atopaʻu i luga o uili, i le 40 tausaga talu ai, na faʻateʻaina e le au faʻatau i faleoloa tetele le manatu ma lafo ese le foafoa mai o latou ofisa.

O le ato uili muamua o le manatu lea a le kamupani matua a Briggs & Riley US Luggage ma sa avea ma peresitene o Bernard Sadow. Ina ua toe foi mai Aruba ma lona toalua ma a latou atopa'u mamafa e lua, sa ia matauina se se'e latalata ane, ma faia ai se sootaga musuia, ma liliu atu i lona toalua ma faapea atu, “O le mea lena e manaomia e ato: uili.”

"Na ou iloa o le a suia le pisinisi i le taimi lona lua na ou mafaufau ai i ai. O le fa'ase'e lea ua fa'afaigofie ai le faimalaga mo le faitau miliona ma miliona o tagata, ”o le tala lea a Sadow.

O le faʻataʻitaʻiga na taʻavale ese mai le falegaosimea a Massachusetts ia Oketopa 1970 e fa uili ma se maea e tosoina ai. Na fa'asolosolo atu Sadow i tagata fa'atau Gimbels, Macy's ma isi faleoloa tele, ma ta'itasi, fa'aali atu ia te ia le faitoto'a. Mulimuli ane, na iloa e se sui peresitene vaai mamao i Macy's le gafatia. Na ia fa'atonuina lana fa'atau - o le tagata fa'atau lava lea ua uma ona ta'ua le manatu valea - tu'u se oka ma ia muamua fa'atau atu atopa'u uili.

Na fa'ataunu'uina vave e le au fa'atau atopa'u uili ma fa'asolo atu oka. O ato ua amata ona fa'atupuina i uili e lua e mama, filemu, malosi ma sili atu ona fetu'una'i i fa'alavelave ta'itasi mai inisinia a Briggs & Riley. US Luggage na faila mo ma manumalo i se pateni i luga o le mea fou fou ua maua nei i le 1972, lea na mulimuli ane faatoilaloina e isi kamupani ua mafai nei ona tuu uili i luga oa latou ato.

“Talu ai ona o vaega uma o atopa'u e iai se uili, e le avea ai ma se uili a Briggs & Riley; e te maua le mea e te totogia,” o le tala lea a Briggs & Riley ma le US Luggage CEO Richard Krulik.

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He demanded that his buyer – the same buyer who had already called the idea crazy – place an order and be the first to sell wheeled luggage.
When returning from Aruba with his wife and their two heavy suitcases, he noticed a skid nearby, and made an inspired connection, turning to his wife and saying, “That’s what luggage needs.
The prototype that rolled out of the Massachusetts luggage factory in October 1970 had four wheels and a rope tow to pull it along.