Fellowes, Inc.

Fellowes Brands
Private company
Industry Workspace products
Founded 1917
Headquarters Itasca, Illinois, USA
Key people
 John Fellowes CEO
Products Paper shredders, storage boxes, mobile technology accessories
Website fellowes.com

Fellowes, Brands is a manufacturer of office products including paper shredders, binding and laminating equipment, desktop accessories, mobile 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, China, Malaysia, Japan, Korea and South Africa and employs more than 1,500 people throughout the world.[1]

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, 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. John Fellowes is now current CEO of Fellowes Brands.

As of 2014, it had an estimated turnover of $700 million.[2]


Fellowes sells it products both offline in retail outlets and online via e-commerce stores worldwide. A leading example of an online store selling Fellowes Shredders is Amazon in the US. Lyreco is a Fellowes distributor in the EU.

Key Innovations

2005

Introduction of Fellowes’ SafeSense™ shredder technology 2008

Introduction of Fellowes’ 100 percent Jam Proof Shredder Series

2014

Fellowes introduces AutoMax™ Walk Away Auto-Feed Shredders


External links

References

  1. ↑ fellowes.com About Us
  2. ↑ Fellowes: a family that thinks outside the box. (2008). Campden FB.