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The AFC was established on September 4, 1940, by Yale Law School student R. Douglas Stuart, Jr. (heir to the Quaker Oats fortune), along with other students, including future President Gerald Ford, future Peace Corps director Sargent Shriver, and future U.S. Supreme Court justice Potter Stewart.
She has appeared in over 100 commercials, including Life Savers, the George Foreman Grill, Quaker Oats, Nexium (currently running) and AARP.
Examples of products featuring their carbon footprint in the UK are Walkers Crisps, a range of own brand products in Tesco supermarkets, Halifax (HBOS) bank accounts, Dyson airblades, Marshalls building products, Kingsmill bread, Quaker oats, Silver Spoon sugar, Tate & Lyle sugar and La Farge cement.
Other manufacturers of major brands of cereal (including General Mills, Malt-O-Meal, Nabisco, Nestlé, Post Foods, and Quaker Oats) followed suit and inserted prizes into boxes of cereal to promote sales and brand loyalty.
He also has business interests in the following companies: General Dynamics, Westinghouse, Ashland Oil, Neurogen, CB Commercial Real Estate, Nortel, BDM International, Quaker Oats, and Kaman.
The industrialist retired in 1972, selling his company to Quaker Oats for $54 million.
He is best known for his work on commercials featuring stop-frame animation for Brisk, Apple Jacks and Chips Ahoy in America, and the Windy Miller adverts for Quaker Oats in Britain.
R. Douglas Stuart, Jr. (born 1916), founder of the America First Committee, CEO of Quaker Oats; and United States Ambassador to Norway, 1984–1989