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ACCO Brands
American branded office/academic products maker (Mead, Five Star, Swingline, GBC, Quartet); #1/#2 in binding, notebooks, planning, presentation & storage. ~$1.5B sales (2025), production largely offshore in Asia.
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Computer & device accessories (Kensington)
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Did you know2021
The company that makes Mead notebooks and Swingline staplers also owns a near-universal computer-hardware standard. ACCO Brands owns Kensington, which invented the Kensington Security Slot — the small reinforced oval hole molded into the chassis of nearly every business laptop worldwide for a cable lock — and launched the original MicroSaver lock in 1992. So a piece of physical security found on hundreds of millions of computers is owned and licensed by an office-and-school-supplies company most people never associate with PC hardware. [verify: ACCO owns Kensington; 1992 MicroSaver/slot confirmed independently]
Tedium ↗Origin2011
The iconic red Swingline stapler from Office Space (1999) didn't exist as a product when the film was made — the prop was a standard Swingline custom-painted red for the movie. Fan demand afterward led Swingline (an ACCO brand) to actually manufacture and sell a red stapler, which became a strong seller. A pop-culture prop effectively reverse-engineered a real SKU into existence — a rare case of a movie creating demand for a product that hadn't been offered. [verify: confirmed: prop painted red, Rio Red 747 released 2002 after fan demand]
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