Talk:ACCO Brands

Request edit
Out of date financial information; Out of date Chairman; Missing latest news about the company including acquisitions in Australia and Europe; Clean up needed of external links 194.128.176.126 (talk) 10:50, 15 December 2016 (UTC)
 * ❌ The edit request template is only to be used in cases of a conflict of interest. You can do this yourself, unless you have a conflict of interest. If you do have a COI, then copy and paste your changes on to the talk page and an editor will review them. st  170  e  12:23, 2 January 2017 (UTC)

Some proposed changes
Hello, Wikipedia! My name is Richard Nelson, and I represent Corporate Communications for ACCO brands. As I have a clear conflict of interest (COI), I have opted to reach out here instead of editing the page directly. You have a great start on our company page thus far, and I would like to offer the following updates (per CREWE guidelines) to you in the hopes of bringing our page up to date. All updates have citations to third-party announcements, company announcements, or 10K filing forms. Thank you for your consideration. Richnelson84 (talk) 19:41, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Areas Served: North America | Europe | Australia | South America | | APAC

Key People: Boris Elisman (Chairman), (President) & (CEO) | Neal Fenwick (Executive Vice President) & (CFO) | Patrick Buchenroth | (Executive Vice President) & (President, ACCO Brands International) | Cezary L. Monko (Executive Vice President) & (President, ACCO Brands EMEA) | Thomas W. Tedford (Executive Vice President) & (President, ACCO Brands NA)

Revenue: $1.948 billion (2017)

Operating income: $193 million (2017) Net income: $131.7 million (2017) Total assets: $2.799 billion (2017) Total equity: $774.1 million (2017) Number of employees: 6,620 (2017) Summary: ACCO Brands Corporation is an American marketer and manufacturer of branded academic, consumer and business products. It was created by the merger of ACCO World from Fortune Brands with General Binding Corporation (GBC)

History: 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 the company's formal name in 1922. After many additional acquisitions, ACCO went public in 1983, and was acquired in 1987 by American Brands (later Fortune Brands), itself having merged with office supply company Wilson Jones in 1969 In 1989 ACCO established itself in Australia and New Zealand with the addition of the Marbig® line of products. 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., a supplier of office products such as paper shredders, staplers, hole punches, and laminators. It also acquired NOBO®, suppliers of office products including white boards and easels. In 2005, ACCO was spun off from Fortune Brands and, through the merger with the General Binding Corporation, ACCO Brands was formed. In 2012, ACCO Brands completed an $860 million deal to combine with MeadWestvaco’s Consumer and Office Products business, adding product brands like Mead®, Five Star®, AT‐A‐GLANCE®, Cambridge®, Day Runner®, Hilroy®, Tilibra® and Grafon’s™. ACCO expanded its presence in Australia and New Zealand with its 2016 acquisition of Pelikan Artline in Australia/New Zealand, added a large-scale European business with the acquisition of Esselte in 2017, and expanded its presence in Mexico in 2018 with the addition of GOBA International ACCO Brands are home to brands including Artline®, AT-A-GLANCE®, Derwent®, Esselte®, Five Star®, GBC®, Hilroy®, Kensington®, Leitz®, Mead®, Quartet®, Rapid®, Rexel®, Swingline®, Tilibra®, and Wilson Jones®

Richnelson84 (talk) 19:41, 9 August 2018 (UTC)

Reply 11-SEP-2018
Regards,  Spintendo   17:38, 11 September 2018 (UTC)
 * 1) ✅ The infobox figures and individual executives were updated.
 * 2) ❌ The main prose of the article was not updated, as the proposed material essentially duplicates information already found on company-related portals.

Some proposed changes
Hello spintendo, and thank you very much for implementing many of the changes I had requested. I understand the concern for avoiding duplicative information. Ideally, my hope is to aggregate all of the acquisitions in a single Wikipedia entry for ACCO as they all contribute to the worldwide footprint of the company. In this regard, I wonder if you might consider adding the paragraph below that plainly outlines the more recent acquisitions abroad. Thank you again for your consideration:

ACCO expanded its presence in Australia and New Zealand with its 2016 acquisition of Pelikan Artline, added European business with the acquisition of Esselte in 2017 and built business further in Mexico by acquiring GOBA International in 2018 .

Richnelson84 (talk) 19:55, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

Reply 19-NOV-2018
Regards,  Spintendo   20:22, 19 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 1) ✅ The claim mentioning the Esselte acquisition was added.
 * 2) ❌ The claim regarding Pelikan was not added because it is unreferenced.
 * 3) ❌ The claim involving GOBA International was not added because the provided link is invalid.

2018 Financial Updates
Hello spintendo, great to talk to you again. I wanted to reach out to you with ACCO's updated financial numbers in the hopes of updating them on our page. I also realize I forgot the link to the Pelikan acquisition and provided an incorrect link to the GOBA acquisition, so I have provided those as well.

 Revenue: $1.941 billion (2018)  Operating income: $187 million (2018)  Net income: $106.7 million (2018)  Total assets: $2.7986 billion (2018)  Total equity: $789.7 million (2018)  Number of employees: 6,700 (2018)  GOBA Internacional Corrected Link  Pelikan Acquisition Link </li> </ol>

Thank you, Richard Nelson Richnelson84 (talk) 17:45, 5 March 2019 (UTC)

What brands are ACCO's?
Given that the name of the company is "ACCO Brands", I was surprised to not find at least some names of their brands on the page.

Is addition of some brand names likely to be rejected with statements like "... was not updated, as the proposed material essentially duplicates information already found on company-related portals" (as in a previous Talk item)?

If so then would a sentence like "Some of the company's brands are mentioned on their Internet site" with a link to the site be acceptable?

Peter Jones

202.168.33.73 (talk) — Preceding undated comment added 13:08, 15 December 2022 (UTC)

Test
Try 202.168.33.73 (talk) 21:00, 15 December 2022 (UTC)