Your next Thermos might be connected to the internet
by By Ally Marotti, Chicago Tribune
Sep 17, 2017
4 minutes
CHICAGO - For customers nowadays, it's pretty important to keep that $5 latte hot.
It may be even more important than it was to keep coffee warm back when it only cost a quarter a cup, said Rick Dias, president and chief operating officer of Thermos.
Dias, 51, has spent 15 years at Thermos working to keep the privately held, 113-year-old company relevant as times change and people expect more out of their products than just warm soup come lunchtime.
Thermos, which Japanese company Taiyo Nippon Sanso Corp. acquired in 1989, relies on inventive designers, partnerships and other companies to help with that, Dias said last month
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