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Sheaffer Pen Corporation (IPA: [ʃeɪfɜːr]) is an American manufacturing company of writing instruments, particularly luxury fountain pens.The company was founded by Walter A. Sheaffer in Fort Madison, Iowa, and incorporated in 1913 [4] to exploit his invention of a lever-filling fountain pen.
Cross' products include fountain, ballpoint, and rollerball pens, mechanical pencils and refills. The company also manufactures accessories for those goods such as cases and wallets. The company has also owned Sheaffer, another pen manufacturer, since 2014. [3] In August 2022, the Sheaffer brand was sold to the William Penn company. [4]
In 1906, Sheaffer purchased a jewelry store in Fort Madison, Iowa where he established the Sheaffer Jewelry and Music Co. on Second St. Inspired by the success of self-filling fountain pens—notably, Conklins—Sheaffer turned his attention to inventing a self-filling mechanism of his own. He received his first fountain pen patent in 1908, for ...
A pen is a handheld device used to apply ink to a surface, usually paper, for writing or drawing. [1] Additional types of specialized pens are used in specific types of applications and environments such as in artwork, electronics, digital scanning and spaceflight, and computing.
Business grew through many acquisitions. Newell already owned Keene Office Products and Rogers Office Products, acquired in 1991. In 1994 they acquired Eberhard Faber, in 1995 Berol and Phillips, and in 1998 Rotring, a German technical drawing instruments company. Also in 1998, Sanford split into two divisions: Sanford North America and Sanford ...
In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe.
The lawsuit accused Target's board of directors of overlooking the risk of negative backlash and led the company to lose over $25 billion in market capitalization.
The Parker Pen Company is an American manufacturer of luxury writing pens, founded in 1888 [1] by George Safford Parker in Janesville, Wisconsin, United States. In 2011 the Parker factory at Newhaven, East Sussex , England, was closed, and its production transferred to Nantes , France.