History
"For more than fifty years, privately owned Toastess produced small appliances for the Canadian market. Originally named H & S Products for its founders Harry and Louis Solomon, the firm initially manufactured hand mixers. In 1949 they entered the portable appliance field with an electric toaster and by 1962 were producing electric kettles, electric frying pans and waffle irons.
In the nineties, Toastess changed management and introduced computerized injection-moulded plastic machinery to manufacture translucent electric kettles. As for the toaster, the product that gave Toastess its name, models were imported from China. Despite the media attention for its candy-coloured kettles and a contract from the American housewares distributor Williams-Sonoma, Toastess closed its doors in 2000."