ACCO Brands Corporation is an American multinational company. It was created by the merger of ACCO World from Fortune Brands with General Binding Corporation (GBC).
4-643: General Binding Corporation (GBC) is a business machines and supplies manufacturer which makes equipment and supplies for binding, lamination, and other presentation products. The company is part of ACCO Brands and is headquartered in Lake Zurich, Illinois . GBC was founded in 1947 by William N. Lane II and Edgar Uihlein when they purchased a small trade bindery in Chicago, Illinois. In 2005, Fortune Brands, Inc. , spun off its ACCO World Corporation office products unit to be merged with General Binding Corporation (GBC);
8-537: The company's formal name in 1922. After many acquisitions, ACCO went public in 1983, and was acquired in 1987 by American Brands (later Fortune Brands). In 1990, ACCO acquired Hetzel in Germany, a company selling stationery products. In 1992, ACCO UK was created from the integration of ACCO Europe and Rexel Ltd. ACCO UK is the UK's largest manufacturer of office products. In 2005, ACCO was spun off from Fortune Brands and, through
12-619: The merged company was named ACCO Brands Corporation . In 2009, Cosmo Films acquired GBC Commercial Print Finishing, the thermal lamination division of ACCO Brands. ACCO Brands In 1903, Fred J. Kline founded the Clipper Manufacturing Company (a maker of paper clips ) in Long Island, New York. In 1910, the company became the American Clip Company, and first used the name "ACCO" as an initialism , which became
16-497: The merger with the General Binding Corporation, ACCO Brands was formed. In 2012, ACCO Brands completed a $ 860 million deal to combine with MeadWestvaco ’s Consumer and Office Products business. The transaction added brands like Mead, Five Star, Trapper Keeper, AT-A-GLANCE, Cambridge, Day Runner, Hilroy, Tilibra and Grafons to ACCO Brands' product line. ACCO acquired Esselte Group Holdings in 2017. In March 2020,
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