Type Subsidiary Key people James R. Caldwell Parent organization Newell Brands | Industry Manufacturing Website www.rubbermaid.com | |
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Products Consumer Household Goods Headquarters Atlanta, Georgia, United States Founded 1920, Wooster, Ohio, United States Profiles | ||
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Rubbermaid is an American manufacturer and distributor of many household items. It is a subsidiary of Newell Brands. It is best known for producing food storage containers and trash cans. Additionally, it produces sheds, step stools, closets and shelving, laundry baskets and other household items.
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History
Founded in 1920 in Wooster, Ohio as the Wooster Rubber Company by nine businessmen. Originally Wooster Rubber Company manufactured toy balloons.
In 1933, James R. Caldwell and his wife received a patent for their blue rubber dustpan. They called their line of rubber kitchen products Rubbermaid.
In 1934 Ebert saw Rubbermaid products at a New England department store, and believed such products could help his struggling Wooster Rubber. He engineered a merger of the two enterprises in July 1934. Still named the Wooster Company, the new group began to produce rubber household products under the Rubbermaid brand name.
In 1999, Rubbermaid was purchased by Newell for $6 billion. Then Newell changed its name to Newell Rubbermaid Inc.
In 2003, the company announced its move out of Wooster to Atlanta, Georgia; 850 manufacturing and warehouse jobs would be eliminated, and 409 office jobs would move to other locations. A Rubbermaid distribution center remained at the former headquarters for some time, until it was recently purchased by GOJO Industries, Inc.
On Nov. 16th 2004, Rubbermaid was used as a prime example in the PBS Frontline documentary Is Walmart good for America.
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Former Rubbermaid CEOs
Companies acquired by Rubbermaid
Prior to Rubbermaid being acquired by Newell Rubbermaid.