GLENDALE BUTTER--the better butter with the better taste, says Uncle Bob. Print Ad, 1970 |
In 1970, Procter and Gamble PMC launched GLENDALE Pure Fresh
Butter, its response to the well-entrenched Anchor Butter, already the
Philippines’ largest selling butter that was introduced way back in 1966.
Procter & Gamble PMC was the current leader in margarine spreads, so it was
no surprise that it forayed into the butter market.
A block of GLENDALE Pure Fresh Butter was made from one
and a half gallons of fresh cow’s milk—a competitive advantage that it
leveraged on in its print ad campaign. To help push the product, popular TV
personality “Uncle Bob”—aka Robert Stewart—was tapped to endorse the new butter
brand, appearing in full-page, full-color print ads in leading weekend
magazines.
Robert Stewart arrived in the Philippines in 1943 as a
United Press (UP) war correspondent. He stayed on after the war, having met
Loreto Feliciano, a Kapampangan widow with 3 kids, whom he married. Robert
started the Republic Broadcasting Republic Broadcasting System (RBS), DZBB,
DZFF and DZXX. Loreto did the marketing for the stations, and eventually, they
would also establish Channel 7 in the 1960s. He first appeared as “Uncle Bob”
on 30 Oct. 1961, as a news anchor for “The News with Uncle Bob”.
He would retain the monicker “Uncle Bob” when he became the host of the
widely popular children’s show, “Uncle Bob’s Lucky 7 Club”. It was the first
live children’s TV show that was aired on Saturday morning, with Uncle Bob
dishing out memorable catchphrases as "hot-diggity-dog" and expressions
like "pum-pa-rum-pum".
A supporter of Pres, Garcia, he was threatened with
deportation by the Macapagal government in 1961, but officials backed off when a
deluge of letters from children expressing their support flooded Malacañang.
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Stewart had other shows like “the Maestro & Uncle Bob”
(with pianist Federico Elizalde) and “Uncle Bob & Friends” (with Joselito
Pascual). Disillusioned by the Marcos government, he moved to the U.S., leaving
his “Uncle Bob’s Lucky 7 Club” to his son Jody Stewart, till it ended in the
late 1980s.
The much-loved uncle to thousands of Flipino kids passed away in Phoenix, Arizona on 6 April 6, 2006, and
his remains were returned to the Philippines. and his remains were cremated
before being returned to the Philippines on April 25.
As to the fate of GLENDALE Pure Fresh Butter, it remained
on the market shelves for just a few years, unable to make a dent in the successful
Anchor butter business. The “cream and sunshine butter” continues to dominate
the butter segment of dairy spreads in the Philippines today.
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