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Brady company history timeline
After a decade and a half of growth, the stock market crash of 1929 and the depression that followed drove many of Brady's customers out of business, forcing him to sell his home and, with his parents' support, enroll in college.
A focus on quality led the company to introduce in 1940 reliable labels that could keep airplane wires and cables identified even when exposed to extreme heat.
1949 Brady's first Caution and Danger safety signs appear.
Because it was inexpensive for Brady simply to mail potential customers samples of its markers, it was not until after 1950 that it developed a national sales force.
Brady's 1953 introduction of Blue Streak Release--an adhesive so effective that labels and markers could be dramatically increased in size without loss of adhesion--was another major step forward in Brady's labeling capability.
With the establishment of Brady Canada on the outskirts of Toronto in 1958, Brady moved into the international marketplace, which within 40 years would generate nearly half its annual sales.
1966 Brady opens Brady Europa, a warehouse/factory in Belgium.
In 1969 it introduced Phodar, a method for manufacturing printed circuit boards using dry resist techniques rather than the traditional liquid resist method.
A formal international division was established in 1972 when Brady Sweden and Brady Germany joined the fold.
In 1969 it introduced Phodar, a method for manufacturing printed circuit boards using dry resist techniques rather than the traditional liquid resist method. It had to abandon the product in 1972, however, when DuPont's competing brand won the battle for market share and Brady's engineers were unable to overcome Phodar's poor shelf life limitations.
By 1980, international subsidiaries accounted for 20 percent of sales.
In 1984, Brady went public, issuing our first-ever shares of common stock, and expanding our reach through direct marketing catalogs.
In 1984 Brady became a private/public hybrid when it sold 500,000 shares of nonvoting stock to avoid the estate taxes due when Bill Brady Jr.'s heirs inherited his stake in the company.
The Seton acquisition allowed Brady to supplement its traditional niche-focused sales and distribution network with blanket mail order sales through Seton's industrial catalog, which in 1988 alone reached eight million potential customers.
In 1989, for example, Bill Brady Jr. announced that he expected new products to account for 25 percent of Brady sales every year.
1994 Katherine M. Hudson becomes the first non-family member to run the company.
In August 1998, it purchased Brazilian label manufacturer VEB Sistemas de Etiquetas Ltda.
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A new manufacturing facility was established in Penang, Malaysia, in 2002, while a second facility went online in China the following year.
Sales in fiscal 2005 increased by 21.6 percent to $816.4 million while net income jumped to $81.9 million--an increase of 61.1 percent over the previous year.
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Brady competitors
| Company name | Founded date | Revenue | Employee size | Job openings |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New England Wire | 1898 | $63.0M | 500 | 1 |
| Eliason | 1952 | $940,000 | 50 | 4 |
| Arrow International Inc | 1975 | $600.0M | 4,000 | 130 |
| Banta Corporation | 1901 | $1.5B | 8,000 | 51 |
| Knoll | 1938 | $1.2B | 3,541 | - |
| Taylormarine | 1908 | $42.0M | 350 | 1 |
| Keiser | 1977 | $22.8M | 100 | 7 |
| Cfc International An Itw Company | - | - | - | 8 |
| VW International | - | - | - | 14 |
| NBS | 1998 | $7.3M | 35 | 5 |
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