Ed Lowe (businessman)

Edward Lowe (July 10, 1920 – October 4, 1995) was an American businessman and entrepreneur, noted for the invention of cat litter.

One day in January 1947, Mrs. Draper, Edward Lowe's neighbor in Cassopolis, Michigan, asked him for some sand to use as cat litter.

Lowe worked for his father's company which sold bulk shipments of sand, sawdust and clay to heavy industries for use as absorbents.

In the early 1980s, he almost lost his market to Clorox, but by 1990, Edward Lowe Industries was the top producer of cat box filler.

[5] In Lowe's later years, he decided the best way for his business to continue after his death was to hand the running over to a management team funded by venture capitalists from New York and Chicago.

The sale went through in 1990, with the company being renamed the Golden Cat Corporation; Lowe remained as an equity holder and director.