What company invented the now Known image of Santa clause?

Answer 1

coke, and k_bonnie we all know santa was a person a long time agow but he didnt look like that the onlyreason he wears red is cuz he mached the bottle. DUH!!!!

Answer 2

Contrary to popular belief, The modern image of Santa Clause was NOT invented by the Coca-Cola company. Santa's image has evolved drastically over the years. The image we know today was well known as early as 1920, however, the Coca-Cola company didn't use his image till the 1930's. They are, however, credited as making it a more standardized version of Santa, but they did not, by any means, come up with the ideas used in their characterization of Santa Clause.

Answer 3

No company invented Santa Clause. There actually was a man named Santa, and he gave gifts to children for Christams. Here is where it gets fake. 1) Santa Clause does not come throught the chimney, he stood ont he corners of teh streat. 2) Nopt everybody "likes" the idea of Santa Clause. In fact, the officers of the the town Santa lived in hated him, and put him into torture chamers, and beat him serverly. And of coures, Santa doesn't live in the north pole, in fact, he died several years ago. It just continues so every child can have the "illusions" as paretns call JOY on Christmas morining thinking "elves" made there presents.

Answer 4

Modern ideas of Santa Claus seemingly became canon after the publication of the poem "A Visit From St. Nicholas" (better known today as "The Night Before Christmas") in the Troy, New York, Sentinel on December 23, 1823. The poem is ascribed to Clement Clarke Moore, although there is some question as to his authorship. In this poem Santa is established as a heavyset individual with eight reindeer (who are named for the first time). Santa Claus later appeared in various colored costumes as he gradually became amalgamated with the figure of Father Christmas, but red soon became popular after he appeared wearing such on an 1885 Christmas card. Still, one of the first artists to capture Santa Claus's image as we know him today was Thomas Nast, an American cartoonist of the 19th century. In 1863, a picture of Santa illustrated by Nast appeared in Harper's Weekly (it is believed the inspiration for his image came from the Pelznickle). Another popularization was The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, a 1902 biography (of sorts) from youth to old age by L. Frank Baum, author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz. Much of Santa Claus's mythos was not set in stone at the time, and Baum almost completely ignored the poem, giving his "Neclaus" (Necile's Little One) a wide variety of immortal support (Fairies, Wood Nymphs (including his adoptive mother, Necile), Knooks, Ryls, Sound Imps, Light Elves, Sleep Feys, Gnomes, Water Spirits, Wind Demons, and the lioness Shiegra), a home in the Laughing Valley of Hohaho, and ten reindeer that were not domesticated at all (and had different names from the poem), but whom the Knooks let out of the forest one day each year (and they could not fly, but leapt in enormous, flight-like bounds). Most importantly, Baum revealed that Claus's immortality was earned, much like his title ("Santa"), decided by a vote of those naturally immortal. True to his historic origins as a bishop, Baum's Santa Claus never married. Baum also established Claus's motives: a happy childhood among immortals. When Ak, Master Woodsman of the World, exposes him to the misery and poverty of children in the outside world, he strives to find a way to bring joy into the lives of all children, and eventually invents toys as a principal means.

Images of Santa Claus were further cemented through Haddon Sundblom's depiction of him for The Coca-Cola Company's Christmas advertising. The popularity of the image spawned urban legends that Santa Claus was in fact invented by Coca-Cola or that Santa wears red and white because those are the Coca-Cola colors. Both claims are untrue. In fact, Coca-Cola was not even the first soft drink company to utilize the modern image Santa Claus in its advertising – White Rock Beverages used Santa in advertisements for its ginger ale in 1923 after first using him to sell mineral water in 1915.

The image of Santa Claus as a benevolent character became reinforced with its association with charity and philanthropy, particularly organizations such as the Salvation Army. Volunteers dressed as Santa Claus typically became part of fundraising drives to aid needy families at Christmas time

Answer 5

it was coca-cola. and there's no 'e' in claus, when you're referring to santa claus.

Answer 6

coke! red can and all!