ACCO

Acco Brands Corporation

A maker of everyday office and school supplies, ACCO Brands owns familiar names like Swingline staplers, Mead notebooks, and Kensington computer locks, which are used in homes, classrooms, and workplaces. It grew from the American Clip Company, founded in 1903 to make paper clips and renamed with the acronym that became its identity. The Kensington laptop lock was born in 1990 after a company designer, traveling with his own laptop, realized there was no easy way to keep it safe.