The Hoyt Group, Inc. was an industrial design and marketing consultancy firm established by Earl E. Hoyt, Jr. (1936-2024). Hoyt was introduced to design at an early age. His mother was a talented textile designer, who worked at her drawing board at home for additional income. At a very young age Hoyt wrote to General Motors explaining his interest in designing cars. He received a return letter and was introduced to the term "Industrial Designer."

Hoyt graduated with honors from the Pratt Institute in 1960. He immediately began work in the New York City office of Donald Deskey Associates, during which time Hoyt designed and patented new packaging for Johnson & Johnson's dental floss dispenser, a design that is widely recognizable and still in use today. During his five-year career with the Deskey firm, he contributed to the Century 21 Exposition World's Fair at Seattle in 1962, and assisted with the design of the Travelers Life Insurance Pavillion at the 1964 New York World's Fair.

In 1965, The Hoyt Group began with groundbreaking work in packaging design. With the understanding that the package was the product - as with Jiffy Pop Microwave Popcorn, the Seashell Air Freshener by Reckitt & Coleman, Inc., Dap Patch Stick and Dap Caulk tube, Airwick's Carpet Fresh and Magic Mushroom Air Freshener, and Snap Plus Oil Boost.

Projects for the medical community included such clients as the S. S. White Dental Company. Considered Hoyt's most important client in 1965, S. S. White requested redesigned dental units that would store dental tools. The objective was a design that provided convenient access to dental instruments to the dentist while minimizing patient apprehensions. The design team also revamped the company's panoramic X-ray machine, dental exam chairs, dental stools, and trays. The American Cyanamid Company used Hoyt's services to develop a singular-use, iodine-filled sterile medical scrubber device. The Becton Dickinson Company had the firm design a "pen" for administering insulin. Galen Labs was provided the necessary structural package development and production expertise to translate a mechanical prototype into the OPTIFLO Disposable Oxygenator, a filter device used during open heart surgery.

Holding seventy-three patents in twenty countries Hoyt's design talents were acknowledged by the Cooper-Hewitt Museum's exhibition Packaging the New: Design and the American Consumer, 1925-1975.