Addressograph Multigraph Ltd

Sectors:

  • Information processing equipment production Business machine production

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Traced origins to c1900 when established as Addressograph Ltd by a group of (?exclusively) UK businessmen to market and sell the addressing machines of Addressograph of USA. The latter had been formed in the late 19th century and quickly became a leader in the design and manufacture of addressing machines. In the early 1930s it merged with American Multigraph Co to form Addressograph Multigraph Corp. The UK business initially manufactured only address plates. It was reorganised as 1910 as Addressograph (1910) Ltd and renamed Addressograph Ltd in 1913. Set up branches in many provincial cities. Renamed Addressograph Multigraph Ltd in c1932. In 1979 the US business was renamed AM International Inc

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