Stanley Geller, chairman of world Halloween giant FunWorld, has passed at the age of 94. The following tribute has been written by Sergio Battaner, sales and marketing director at Palmer Agencies (the European distributor for FunWorld), who had worked closely with him for the last 16 years.
“Stanley was a true pioneer of the party industry and a Halloween trailblazer but, most importantly, was a great human being who believed in hard work, discipline, friendship, honesty and integrity.
In April 1963, Stanley Geller bought the business from his father-in-law, with revenue of approx. $500,000 and renamed the company FunWorld, Easter Unlimited. He travelled to Japan by propeller planes on buying trips and developed strong relationships with
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factories there, and sold goods by traveling the roads of the USA in a station wagon filled with samples, going from Minneapolis to Miami, Boston to Bentonville, New York to New Orleans and everywhere in between. Life was tough but good, and the business grew and grew with the help of many people.
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