Samuel Glazer
| Samuel Lewis Glazer | |
|---|---|
| Born |
February 24, 1923 Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Died | March 12, 2012 (aged 89) Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. |
| Cause of death | Leukemia |
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | Businessman, investor, philanthropist |
| Known for | co-founder of North American Systems developer of Mr. Coffee |
| Spouse(s) | Jeanne Glazer |
| Children | Robert Glazer |
| Parent(s) | Isador Glazer Yetta Gross Glazer |
Samuel Lewis Glazer (February 24, 1923 – March 12, 2012) was an American businessman, investor, and philanthropist. Glazer founded North American Systems with his business partner, Vincent Marotta Sr. and the two also co-developed Mr. Coffee, one of the first automatic drip coffee makers to be introduced to the American consumer market. Through their firm, Glazer and Marotta hired the engineers, Edmund Abel and Erwin Schulze of Westinghouse, whose research produced the first Mr. Coffee machines.
Introduced in 1972, Mr. Coffee proved wildly popular with consumers and revolutionized the way Americans made and consumed coffee in their homes. By 1975, just three years after its introduction, Mr. Coffee was the top selling coffee maker in the United States. The industry trade publication Home Furnishings News listed Mr. Coffee as one of the most important household consumer products introduced in the previous seventy-five years in a list published in 2002.
Glazer was born an Jewish family, the son of Isador and Yetta Gross Glazer, on February 24, 1923, in Cleveland, Ohio as his family's fourth child. His father died when he was six years old. Glazer supported his family by selling boots and delivering newspapers. He delivered the newspapers for the Cleveland Plain Dealer from the age of 7 until he was 18 years old, when the paper offered him a position as a district manager. Glazer served in the United States Army, stationed in the U.S. during World War II.
Following World War II, Glazer teamed with Vincent Marotta Sr., whom he had known since both were students at Shaker Heights High School, to embark on numerous business ventures spanning more than sixty years. Glazer and Marotta began by selling dog food in New York and Pennsylvania. They created a new company which initially sold garage doors, then expanded to real estate, constructing new shopping malls and homes nationwide, including the Great Lakes Mall in Mentor, Ohio.
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