{"id":585318,"date":"2023-04-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-13T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/04\/13\/is-tupperware-about-to-go-bust-plus-the-middle-east-beckons-for-silicon-valley-tech-investors\/"},"modified":"2023-04-13T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-13T00:00:00","slug":"is-tupperware-about-to-go-bust-plus-the-middle-east-beckons-for-silicon-valley-tech-investors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/04\/13\/is-tupperware-about-to-go-bust-plus-the-middle-east-beckons-for-silicon-valley-tech-investors\/","title":{"rendered":"Is Tupperware about to go bust? Plus: The Middle East beckons for Silicon Valley tech investors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Is the knife falling on a revolutionary kitchen staple?<\/span><span style=\"\"> Shares in global brand<\/span><span> Tupperware plummeted this week, prompting fears that without a liquidity injection the household icon could go bust, reports the <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/business-65243711\" style=\"\">BBC<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">. The company saw a brief reprieve in sales of their air- and water-tight containers during the covid-19 pandemic as more households spent time cooking and baking at home, but the share price rise was only temporary. And with an easily copied product, Tupperware has been unable to keep up with competition in a market that has been flooded with cheaper alternatives \u2014 nor has the brand shown a willingness for innovations that would help grow and maintain its customer base. Yet, as a brand whose name has outstripped its product, Tupperware could be attractive to retail giants, like Amazon, with the ability to inject funds rapidly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Despite inspired a cultural revolution, Tupperware is going out of fashion:<\/span><span style=\"\"> Created during<\/span><span> the 1950s and 1960s, Tupperware harnessed housewives to sell its products through parties that glamorized dull housework, says Alison Clarke, author of <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Tupperware-Promise-Plastic-1950s-America\/dp\/1560989203\" style=\"\">Tupperware: The Promise of Plastic in 1950s America<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">. At that time, containers could only be bought if you knew someone selling them, making the products and parties exclusive, and hosting Tupperware parties gave a source of employment to women with little access to flexible labor. The scheme was retired in 2003, but the brand has done little in terms of further innovation to the plastic containers, which are now at odds with a new market of young consumers, looking for more environmentally-friendly products.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height:2px;border-width:0;color:gray;background-color:gray\">\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">The Middle East beckons: Silicon Valley tech investors are pursuing the<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\"> region\u2019s sovereign wealth funds to fill the financing gap<\/span><span>, the <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/567ca518-b138-4273-bfe6-0712ef31e01d\" style=\"\">Financial Times<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> reported. As American and European financiers are reeling from the worst financial crisis in a decade, there\u2019s growing appetite for tech investments in countries like the UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Qatar who are actively pursuing economic diversification. \u201cWe came to San Francisco looking for them in 2017. Now \u2026 everyone is coming to [us],\u201d Ibrahim Ajami, the head of ventures at Mubadala Capital \u2014 the USD 6 bn arm of Abu Dhabi\u2019s sovereign wealth fund \u2014 was quoted as saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">KSA\u2019s spending spree: <\/span><span style=\"\">Sanabil, the venture arm of Saudi Arabia\u2019s Public Investment Fund<\/span><span> (PIF), has partnered with nearly <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sanabil.com\/en\/our-partners\" style=\"\">40 venture firms in the US<\/a><\/span><span> including Coatue Management and Craft Ventures. In 2016 alone, PIF invested USD 45 bn in the USD 100 bn SoftBank Vision Fund and USD 3.5 bn in Uber. In 2018, it shelled out another USD 1 bn on electric vehicle (EV) company Lucid Motors. But that investment cooperation came to an abrupt halt when politics <\/span><span>got<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> in the way in 2018 after the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Money talks: <\/span><span style=\"\">After a boom in the industry during covid-19, the subsequent drying up of funds in<\/span><span> the West has significantly altered the course of investments. Over the past year, VC funding for start-ups has <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ft.com\/content\/47747e24-01a4-431f-8ab6-da5fae62e480\" style=\"\">decreased by more than 50%<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, prompting Silicon Valley to mend its ties with KSA. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span>Now, the kingdom is being heralded as a \u201cstart-up country\u201d by Ben Horowitz, the co-founder of Private VC firm <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/a16z.com\/\" style=\"\">Andreessen Horowitz<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">, whose ties with the Kingdom have been warming lately.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">And more is yet to come: <\/span><span style=\"\">The region is expected to \u201cbecome an increasingly important area of<\/span><span> the world over the next decade. It reminds us of going to China in 2003,\u201d <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tigerglobal.com\/\" style=\"\">Tiger Global<\/a><\/span><span>\u2019s Scott Shleifer was quoted as saying.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tupperware\u2019s brand name has outstripped the company\u2019s ability to innovate<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":585319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7215],"tags":[633,638,3389,734,7000],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-585318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-your-commute","tag-enterprisepm","tag-for-your-commute","tag-silicon-valley","tag-sovereign-wealth-funds","tag-tupperware","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"bd301304-e520-4550-8036-2a2f39d6403d","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/4\/617.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"","related_issue":[585313],"teaser":"Tupperware\u2019s brand name has outstripped the company\u2019s ability to innovate","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2023\/4\/.e81fd0e6-275f-4481-a692-44808cfe5bd9.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Is Tupperware about to go bust? 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