Esselte
Which organization owned Ampad from Jun 2010 to Jun 2011?
Ampad American Pad & Paper LLC , or Ampad , is a manufacturer of office products , including writing pads , specialty papers , filing products and envelopes . Some products are marketed under the Ampad brand name , others are produced for brands including Staples and Wal-Mart . The company makes over 2500 products , including pads in a variety of sizes , paper grades , colors , and bindings . Its headquarters are located in Richardson , Texas , United States . with four factories in North America , including facilities in the United States and a plant in Matamoros , Tamaulipas , Mexico . History . Founding . Ampad was founded in 1888 by Thomas W . Holley , a paper mill employee , in Holyoke , Massachusetts . At the time , Holyoke was a major papermaking center . Holley began purchasing the rejects , or sortings , from local paper mills , cutting the paper , inscribing rules on it , and binding it into pads which he could sell at a discount . Within a year , Holleys business filled a whole floor of a commercial building on Holyokes Main Street . By 1894 , the business grew to occupy an entire building , at the corner of Winter and Appleton Streets in Holyoke , and in 1909 , the size of its facilities there were nearly doubled . By the end of World War II , the company had expanded outside of Massachusetts and established international footholds . Growth , acquisition , bankruptcy and reorganization . Known as the Ampad Holding Corporation , the company was purchased in 1986 by the Mead Corporation . In 1992 , the newly formed holding company American Pad & Paper and Bain Capital purchased the subsidiary from Mead . Upon its formation , American Pad & Paper consolidated its 13 manufacturing and distribution facilities into six in 21 locations in the US . At the time , the company had more than of production and warehouse space in California , Colorado , Georgia , Illinois , Massachusetts , Mississippi , New Jersey , New York , Ohio , Pennsylvania , Tennessee , Texas , Washington , and Wisconsin . The company continued to enjoy 53 percent compound annual growth in net sales , which increased from $8.8 million in 1992 to $200.5 million in 1996 , when the company became publicly traded . The company made a number of acquisitions , including writing products company SCM in July 1994 , brand names from the American Trading and Production Corporation in August 1995 , WR Acquisition and the Williamhouse-Regency Division of Delaware , Inc . in October , 1995 , Niagara Envelope Company , Inc . in 1996 , and Shade/Allied , Inc . in February 1997 . On January 8 , 1999 , unable to sustain profitability , the company announced it would be delisted from the New York Stock Exchange . After filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection , Ampad was acquired in 2003 by an affiliate of Crescent Capital Investments , later renamed Arcapita . Ampads current president and CEO , Donald Meltzer , joined the company in August 2005 , having formerly served as vice president and general manager of the Roofing Systems Group at Johns-Manville , and before that as the Executive Vice President and COO of Clore Automotive . On June 8 , 2010 Ampad was acquired by Esselte . In July 2014 , it was sold to TOPS Products . On January 25 , 2021 , the company was the focus of attention for the dismissal of workers who demanded a fair salary increase and intimidation of administrative personnel , thus violating the clients policies of respect for workers , good remuneration , excessive working hours Legal pad claim . The company claims its founder , Thomas W . Holley , invented the legal pad , and no other company has challenged this claim ; however , no patent was filed for the invention , and details of the invention are largely absent , including the reason for the pads yellow color , which costs 10 to 20 percent more than plain white to produce .