Mergers and Acquisitions
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Fuller Brush Company
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content: Fuller Brush Company Records
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content: Fuller Brush Company Records / Series 2: Corporate Records
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content: 1917-2010
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
identifier: label: Identifier
content: NMAH.AC.1459, Subseries 2.7
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content: Archival materials
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content: Records in this subseries pertain to other companies related to the Fuller Brush Company throughout its evolution. This includes organizations that the Fuller Brush Company acquired, entered into a partnership with to create a particular product, and records belonging to larger conglomorates that purchased the Fuller Brush Company. Most records in this subseries relate to the Fuller Brush Company's longtime subsidiary the Mohawk Brush Company; the Fuller Brush Company's parent organization the Consolidated Foods Corporation; and the Fuller Brush Company's longtime rival and sibling organization as of 1995, Stanley Home Products. Material types include annual reports, catalogs, advertisements, correspondence, long range plans, and reports. Among Consolidated Foods records are materials related to subsidiaries of Consolidated Foods (including Abbey Rents & Sells, the Lawson Milk Company, Pioneer Merchandising Company, Le Beau Products, and the Great Adventure amusement park), as well as records highly relevant to the history of Fuller Brush Company, documenting its acquisition and offer of sale. Also of note in this sub-series are items related to the Fuller Brush Company's partnership with Daggett & Ramsdell, leading to the launch of the Debutante Cosmetics line.