Monday, January 23, 2017

KBTime: Tom Murdough, founder of Simplay3, Step2 and Little Tikes

Tom Murdough was at the Hudson Library tonight, discussing his latest venture, Simplay3. The show will be posted online next week, but here's some links for anyone interested in the company, or his previous companies: Little Tikes and Step2...

Murdough recently appeared on Channel 3's "Live on Lakeside" to talk about the new company, and was also interviewed by the Akron Beacon Journal.

Little Tikes was founded in 1969, and by 1984 the company had moved to a new facility in Hudson (where it remains today). The company's innovative daycare allowed employees to be near their children, while also allowing engineers and designers a chance to pre-test products. The daycare was profiled by WJW-TV and WEWS-TV in the mid-1980s, and somehow my mother and brother ended up in both segments. The company was also profiled on Mr. Rogers, and I've told the story many times of how I am still waiting for my autograph.


During the Hudson Library presentation, Murdough said that about one-percent of U.S. plastics manufacturing uses rotational molding, which is more time-consuming than automated manufacturing. It's been the secret to the products from Little Tikes, Step2 and Simplay3, and it's explained here.

Questions? Drop us a line at mr39waukegan@gmail.com. Below, you can check out live tweeting of the program by the Hudson Library Entrepreneurs.













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