Manufacturing biochemist Dr. John A.A. Thomson has won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the lawn and garden industry.
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The Lawn and Garden Marketing and Distribution Association presented this, its highest honor, at its Phoenix, Ariz. summit conference of more than 100 leading manufacturers and distributors. This is the first time this award has been given to a chemist.
Although he has created hundreds of products under the name of the Vitamin Institute, of which he is founder-president-owner.
Thomson, 94, is best known for inventing SUPERthrive multiple vitamins-hormones, the formula used worldwide as a universal improvement for over 50 forms of horticulture.
He has been making SUPERthrive since early 1940. Since then he has been noted for its unchallenged appreciable monetary reward guarantee ($5,000) of superior efficacy.
Although he has created hundreds of products under the name of the Vitamin Institute, of which he is founder-president-owner. But only SUPERthrive survived, having made its way around the world onto every continent.