Goss International history

After weathering its first four years, Goss initiated plans to move to a larger facility in 1889.

The company officially began operation at 335-351 Rebecca Street in 1891, and remained there for the next six decades (which included 11 subsequent renovations and additions).

Firm’s two-deck design became the basis for the Goss Straightline Newspaper Perfecting Press, which debuted in 1892.

In 1893 the World’s Columbian Exposition was held in Chicago and both the Clipper and Straightline presses were exhibited alongside rival machinery, including presses from Walter Scott & Company.

The suit, filed in 1895, was resolved two years later when the judge sided with Scott, believing the newer press innovations were a natural progression of design and not from the patented work of Joseph Firm.

By 1897 there were 125 variations of the Straightline press in use; ten of these were sold to printers in Canada, and another was sold to Cuba.

Despite some wartime manufacturing in early World War I, the Goss Printing Press Company of England suffered from poor management and the building and land were sold in 1916.

Sales and profits were excellent, yet trouble loomed on the horizon and arrived after Joseph Walser’s death in January 1921.

Though Bert Eddy had believed 1929 would be a great year for Goss, the collapse of Wall Street and the onset of the Great Depression put the company in peril.

The new $7 million manufacturing facility began filling orders in 1965 for newspaper producers in the United States, Canada, Europe, and South America.

In 1969 MGD’s board finally relented and chose Rockwell, which had upped its share price and seemed, at least to some, the lesser of the evils trying to corral the company.

Yet at the January 1996 Newspaper Association of America’s Publishers Convention, Rockwell publicly announced its intention to sell off the graphics division for $600 million to a New York investment firm created by Stonington Partners Inc., which would own a controlling interest.

The venerable company filed for Chapter 11 protection in 1999 and restructured to save the Goss name.

GOSS was founded in 2000 with a purpose to provide dedicated manpower service to the offshore industry.

In 2008, driven by the demand from its clients to serve them globally, GOSS expanded its operations into new regions, entering West Africa and South American markets.

In 2010 GOSS entered Offshore Wind, Dredging and Maritime industries, supplying manpower personnel to a wide range of projects both offshore and onshore.

Building on its continuous success, GOSS has expanded its operations in the USA and Middle East markets and has opened representative offices there in 2015.