Reynolds

The company Reynolds ( International Reynolds PEN Company ) manufactures in particular Stylo S, felts, correctors.

Reynolds belongs to the American group Newell Rubbermaid which has in particular the marks Dymo, Waterman and Parker.

History

Milton Reynolds , an American businessman of Chicago took as a starting point one of the first Stylo S of the brothers Biro O. Reynolds started to produce his pens in 1945 and to sell them via the store Gimbel with Manhattan. The store sold 10.000 of them the first day with 10 dollars part (Nearly 105 dollars in 2006).

The castle of Mesnil-Saint-Denis is bought in 1947 by Milton Reynolds which undertakes in the commun runs, the manufacture of his first ball point pens marketed in France

Little time after, Edmond Regnault , manufacturer of Pen-feather S since 1927 with Ferté-Milon in the Aisne, then with Valence since 1945 repurchases the totality of the patents with Milton Reynolds (deceased the January 23rd 1976).

In 1974, Edmond Regnault yields his place to its two sons.

The group Marine Wendel takes control in 1993 of Reynolds and enters out of purse on the second market in 1996.

Then in 1998, Reynolds acquires of the Sarthe-native company of manufacture of pens of high-end: Sermec . The following year, Reynolds establishes a factory in India for the manufacture of pen ball.

In 2000, the American group Newell Rubbermaid repurchases the shares of Reynolds, withdraws purse and the company becomes Sanford Reynolds SA .

In June 2006, Newell Rubbermaid decides to practice 256 dismissals. The delocalization of the emblematic mark of the French school inheritance must be done in China, Italy and Tunisia.

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