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Thursday, 8 December 2005 | senay
Fiskars Acquires Cloud 9 Design and Heidi Grace Designs
Fiskars is Delighted to Announce Two Recent Papercrafting Acquisitions - Cloud 9 Design and Heidi Grace Designs.
Cloud 9 Design, based in Minnesota, features papers that are hand-made and then reproduced to give a beautiful, three-dimensional appearance. They are well-known for their Themed Paper Collections, Innovative Page Coasters, WoodStone™ Collection, and most recently their innovative Page Coasters and Photo Banner Collection. "Simple, time-saving, cutting edge and upscale" are the words Nancy Martinez and Amy Brinkman, who founded Cloud 9 Design, use to describe their products.
Heidi Grace Kress is a creative young artist whose Washington-based company features fun and whimsical stickers, papers, and embellishments for scrapbookers and paper crafters. In addition, Heidi Grace Designs recently introduced its successful line of Pocket Scraps, which includes cards and envelopes that coordinate with colorful stickers, rub-ons, acrylic and plastic embellishments to make it simple to create the perfect personalized effect. "We are very excited about adding these two outstanding companies to our portfolio as we continue to build the consumable portion of our business," says Chad Vincent, President of Fiskars School, Office and Craft Division.
Fiskars will support the design of products from the current headquarters of both companies, while moving the distribution divisions to Wausau, WI, and the operations to Fiskars' North American headquarters in Madison, WI.
About Fiskars
Fiskars, founded in 1649, is one of the oldest companies in the world and is the largest manufacturer of lightweight stainless steel scissors in the US. The parent company, now located in Helsinki, Finland, started on the banks of the Fiskars River in Fiskars, Finland. Internationally, Fiskars has manufacturing plants and/or sales offices in 20 countries. The original orange-handled scissors design is in the permanent design collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, as well as in the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Fiskars School, Office & Craft Division has expanded far beyond the original scissors and now makes an extensive line of ergonomically-designed specialty scissors, scrap booking supplies, embossing tools, paper trimmers, punches, stencils, protractors, compasses, and several more high-quality products.
Fiskars School, Office & Craft is a division of Fiskars Brands, Inc., a leading global manufacturer and marketer of branded consumer and industrial products. Fiskars Brands, Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fiskars Corporation, a Finnish corporation traded on the Helsinki Stock Exchange. Fiskars, is the world's leading manufacturer of scissors, gardening tools and cutlery, as well as other consumer products sold under the brand names including FISKARS®, Gerber Legendary Blades®, Royal® Floor
Mats, Syroco®, Home Leisure, Plantera®, Cool in the Shade™, Power Sentry®, Newpoint®, Montana®, Raadvad, Sankey and Ebert.
To view Fiskars items, visit http://www.fiskars.com/
If you have further questions about Heidi Grace Designs, please visit http://www.heidigrace.com/
For more information on Cloud 9 Design, visit their website at http://www.cloud9design.biz
 
Credits : Cloud 9 Design, The Photo Banner Collection
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