Fellowes
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Fellowes, Inc. is a manufacturer of office products including paper shredder
s, binding
and laminating
equipment, desktop accessories, technology accessories, and record storage boxes. Fellowes owns and operates 15 subsidiaries
worldwide in Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Russia, Australia, Singapore, China, Japan, and Korea, and employs more than 1,700 people throughout the world.http://www.fellowes.com/Fellowes/site/aboutus/about_main.aspx?loc=top
The company was founded in 1917 by Harry Fellowes as the Bankers Box Company, producing the Bankers Box line of record storage boxes. Sons Folger and John Fellowes joined the business in 1934 and 1938, respectively, and grandson James Fellowes, current chairman and CEO, joined in 1969 and was named president in 1983. Also in 1983, the company name was changed from Bankers Box to Fellowes Manufacturing, reflecting the wider range of products now offered by the company. The company's corporate headquarters are in Itasca, Illinois
, where they have been since 1978.
Paper shredder
A paper shredder is a mechanical device used to cut paper into chad, typically either strips or fine particles. Government organizations, businesses, and private individuals use shredders to destroy private, confidential, or otherwise sensitive documents...
s, binding
Bookbinding
Bookbinding is the process of physically assembling a book from a number of folded or unfolded sheets of paper or other material. It usually involves attaching covers to the resulting text-block.-Origins of the book:...
and laminating
Laminate
A laminate is a material that can be constructed by uniting two or more layers of material together. The process of creating a laminate is lamination, which in common parlance refers to the placing of something between layers of plastic and gluing them with heat and/or pressure, usually with an...
equipment, desktop accessories, technology accessories, and record storage boxes. Fellowes owns and operates 15 subsidiaries
Subsidiary
A subsidiary company, subsidiary, or daughter company is a company that is completely or partly owned and wholly controlled by another company that owns more than half of the subsidiary's stock. The subsidiary can be a company, corporation, or limited liability company. In some cases it is a...
worldwide in Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Russia, Australia, Singapore, China, Japan, and Korea, and employs more than 1,700 people throughout the world.http://www.fellowes.com/Fellowes/site/aboutus/about_main.aspx?loc=top
The company was founded in 1917 by Harry Fellowes as the Bankers Box Company, producing the Bankers Box line of record storage boxes. Sons Folger and John Fellowes joined the business in 1934 and 1938, respectively, and grandson James Fellowes, current chairman and CEO, joined in 1969 and was named president in 1983. Also in 1983, the company name was changed from Bankers Box to Fellowes Manufacturing, reflecting the wider range of products now offered by the company. The company's corporate headquarters are in Itasca, Illinois
Itasca, Illinois
Itasca is a village in DuPage County, Illinois, United States. The population was 8,302 at the 2000 census.In 2009, BusinessWeek rated Itasca as the 'Best Affordable Suburb' in the state of Illinois...
, where they have been since 1978.