Type Public Founder Harvey B. Fuller Founded 1887 | Industry Adhesives Area served Worldwide | |
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Traded as NYSE: FUL
S&P 600 Component Key people Jim Owens
(President and CEO) Headquarters St. Paul, Alaska, United States Stock price FUL (NYSE) US$ 49.43 +0.64 (+1.31%)10 Mar, 4:02 PM GMT-5 - Disclaimer CEO James Owens (19 Nov 2010–) Subsidiaries H.B. Fuller France SAS, H.B. Fuller U.K. Ltd. | ||
H b fuller leading global adhesives manufacturer english
H.B. Fuller Company is a major American adhesives manufacturing company supplying industrial adhesives worldwide. The company has long received praise in ethical investment circles for such things as careful handling of toxic waste and the nature reserve built around its headquarters. Despite this image, it faced a controversy over glue-sniffing in Latin America in the 1990s.
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- H b fuller leading global adhesives manufacturer english
- H b fuller join us on our journey english
- History
- Glue Sniffing Controversy
- References
In 2014, the company ranked 957 on the Fortune 1000.
H b fuller join us on our journey english
History
The company was founded in 1887 by Harvey Benjamin Fuller as a one-man wallpaper-paste shop. Initially incorporated as the Fuller Manufacturing Company, in 1915 the company reincorporated as the H.B. Fuller Company. Elmer Andersen, who would later become governor of Minnesota, served as the company's CEO in the 1940s. After beginning his political career, he became a part-time company president, though Andersen would remain involved with the company for many years, stepping down as chairperson in 1992. H.B. Fuller became a publicly held company in 1968.
Glue Sniffing Controversy
In the 1990s, the company faced controversy over the glue-sniffing epidemic among street children in Latin America. A Fuller company brand, Resistol glue, was abused among these children to a sufficient extent that glue-sniffing children were called "resistoleros," regardless of the brand of glue being abused. A lawsuit filed against the company over the death of a Guatemalan teenager from sniffing glue was dismissed in 1996 due to lack of jurisdiction. The controversy eventually led to the company's withdrawal from the Latin American market.