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Day-Timer company history timeline

1947

1947: Robert, William, and Richard Dorney, brothers in the small village of East Texas, Pa., start their own mail-order business in a chicken coop, printing calendars for churches.

1952

In 1952 Dorsey Printing, as Day-Timer was then called, began producing a planner customized for lawyers.

1952: Lawyer Morris Perkin walks into Dorney Printing and orders a desk diary that he had been using to keep track of time spent on clients.

1953

München 1953 [The Basics of the Grossmann-Method.

1972

1972: Day-Timers Inc. is acquired by Beatrice Foods and expands its East Texas headquarters.

1983

Step 1: The Happy Day Planner or Introduction to Methodical Time Planning]," in Grossmann: Die Originaleinführung der "Grossmann-Methode.", HelfRecht – Studienzentrum GmbH (Hrsg.), (Bad Alexandersbad: HelfRecht-Studienzentrum GmbH, 1983), 227–414.

1988

1988: American Brands acquires Day-Timers, which becomes a subsidiary of its office products division, ACCO World.

1990

1990 The “Franklin” in time-management consulting firm Franklin Covey refers to Ben, for reasons noted earlier.

1993

1993 The term PDA (personal digital assistant) was first used by John Sculley to describe the Apple Newton at the 1993 Consumer Electronics Show.

The term PDA (personal digital assistant) was first used by John Sculley to describe the Apple Newton at the 1993 Consumer Electronics Show.

1997

1997: Having dropped its tobacco holdings, American Brands becomes Fortune Brands Inc. and moves its corporate headquarters to Lincolnshire, Ill.

2002

2002 Anointed “the defining self-help business book of the decade,” Dave Allen’s Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, (shorthanded to “GTD” by millions of acolytes) lays out an elaborate program to tame creeping chaos in five steps: collect, process, organize, review, and do.

2005

2005: The ACCO World office products unit of Fortune Brands joins together with General Binding Corporation (GBC), a manufacturer and developer of binding and laminating machines and supplies, creating ACCO Brands Corporation, an independent publicly traded company.

2007

2007 Tim Ferris topped the best-seller list with his prescription for a stripped-down work life in The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich.

2011

The Best Industries to Start and Grow a Business in 2011

2012

2012: ACCO Brands Corporation merges with MeadWestvaco’s Consumer & Office Products business, adding well-known school and office product brands including Mead®, Five Star®, Trapper Keeper®, AT-A-GLANCE®, Cambridge®, Day Runner®, Hilroy®, Tilibra® and Grafon’s™.

Thomas Steinfeld, "Pionier der Selbstoptimierung," Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin 2 (2012): 16-24.

2013

2013: Day-Timer manufacturing, distribution and business operations are relocated to ACCO Brands facilities in Sidney, N.Y., Kettering, Ohio, and Lincolnshire, Ill., from East Texas, Pa.

Soziale und kulturelle Praktiken der Subjektivierung, dies., Hrsg. (Bielefeld: transcript, 2013), 9-30.

2016

Schmidt, Anne. "The Day Planner", in History of Emotions - Insights into Research, October 2016, DOI: 10.14280/08241.52

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