ACCO Brands Corporation’s roots stretch back to the founding of Wilson Jones in 1893, the American Clip Company (ACCO) in 1903 and the Swingline Company in 1925.
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- Jul 2025
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www.accobrands.com www.accobrands.com
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www.madeinchicagomuseum.com www.madeinchicagomuseum.com
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Wilson Jones Co., est. 1893 by [[Made-in-Chicago Museum]]
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The Wilson-Jones Company has managed to survive, too, albeit as a subsidiary of the massive office supply conglomerate ACCO Brands (Swingline, Mead, Trapper Keeper, among others).
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- Wilson Jones Co.
- Ralph B. Wilson
- Harry S. Jones
- W. Gifford Jones
- Chicago, IL
- mergers and acquisitions
- ACCO
- labor relations
- Friedrich Soennecken
- strikes
- loose leaf paper
- patents
- office supplies
- Henry T. Sisson
- 3 hole punch
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- Chicago Shipping and Receipt Book Co.
- Swingline
- 3-ring binders
- Irving-Pitt Manufacturing Co.
- Benjamin Kulp
- Samuel C. Tatum Co.
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- Mar 2024
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https://www.ebay.com/itm/276403515343 <br /> archived copy
In 1984, Memindex was selling monthly planning calendars (pocket notebook size with spiral binding and a case) rather than their older small index card sized formats. Their calendar format looks eerily like what Day-Timer, a division of ACCO Brands, has been selling since at least the early 1990s.
This goes down to even the "cut here" triangles in the lower right corners of pages to help bookmark the current page.
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