Little History, Ron Rice built his famous Hawaiian Tropic empire in the Greater Daytona Beach, FL area (the production plant is located in Tomoka Estates, FL, which is about 20 miles from where I currently live) in 1969 & thru the 1970's-2007. Growing up in this area of Ormond Beach & at the time, unincorporated Daytona Beach, at the time RR was founding HT, he rented a house on the street my parents raised the family. I don't know for certain if the garage they refer to is the same one he mixed the formula in garbage cans, but I figure there's a good chance that the HT formula, in some evolution of it, was mixed at 2 River Dunes Dr Daytona Beach, Florida.
He basically had his pool lifeguard sales teams at every pool deck motel in the area for Spring Break. Part of the promotion & growth was his fleet of catamarans that were basically 16 & 18 foot Hobie Cats that were painted with Hawaiian Tropic Corporate team colors. Rice sold off HT to Coppertone, since then has tried to recreate the tanning lotion magic with the Havana Sun brand.
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