PCA International Inc history

Accordingly, Article 20 of the 1899 Convention formally established the PCA, stating:

Arthur Eyffinger to the President of the first copy of his publication, The 1907 Hague Peace Conference: The Conscience of the Civilized World

In July, 1947 the forerunner of The Pine Chemicals Association was first organized as the Tall Oil Association.

The organization was conceived early in the month of May, 1953 when through correspondence between our founding President Paul Jokelson and fellow collector friend Palmer Hart, it was decided that an association of paperweight collectors would be created.

The following year, in May of 1954, membership had risen to 280 members and the PCA published its first Bulletin.

In 1955, the Association re-organized as the Pulp Chemicals Association.

The first PCA Convention was held in May 1961, in New York City with 100 members in attendance.

The Reformed Presbyterian Church, Evangelical Synod, had been formed in 1965 by a merger of the Evangelical Presbyterian Church and the Reformed Presbyterian Church in North America, General Synod.

In September 1968, Paul Jokelson published the first PCA Newsletter.

In 1970, when PCA was just beginning to expand rapidly, three new employees arrived, Randy Bates, Kent Smith, and Norman Swenson, Jr.

Annual sales eclipsed $10 million by 1972.

In 1974 the Association began the sponsorship of the annual International Naval Stores Meeting, a gathering of companies from around the world to hear presentations on markets, technology and other subjects of interest to the industry.

By 1975, the company's revenue had swelled to $53 million.

In December 1976, the company completed an initial public offering (IPO) of stock and began trading on the NASDAQ, using the proceeds from the IPO to finance its expansion.

In 1978, the company opened a processing center in Matthews, North Carolina, the same year it posted a record $6 million in profit.

Evidence of the problems stemming from over-expansion began to become apparent at the end of the 1979, as PCA concluded a decade of dramatic growth.

After leaving Polaroid in 1981, Grosso joined Atlanta, Georgia-based Nimslo International Ltd., which owned a portrait business that operated out of Sears, Roebuck & Co. stores in the northeastern United States.

In 1982, when the company was forced to lay off 110 employees, it posted a profit of $1.2 million.

Frank Joseph Smith, The History of the Presbyterian Church in America, Reformation Education Foundation, Manassas, VA 1985

In 1986, the company lost money, recording a deficit of nearly $5 million.

After leaving Pearle in 1987, Feld helped build a chain of retail eye-care stores in California that operated under the name Frame-n-Lens Optical, Inc.

The changes worked, enabling PCA to post a $2.5 million profit in 1989, a year that saw the company generate $123.7 million in sales.

The quick conversion to permanent studios--PCA had 461 fixed locations in Kmart stores by the end of 1990--produced positive results.

The greatest contribution to PCA's financial well-being occurred in 1992 as well, with an innovation that helped the company decimate one of its rivals and marked the highlight of the Grosso era.

American Studios lost nearly $6 million in 1995, igniting shareholder furor similar to the anger expressed by PCA shareholders a decade earlier.

Grosso approached American Studios in November 1996, offering to buy the company and thereby secure its enviable association with Wal-Mart.

In the wake of the transaction, PCA began to close its Kmart locations, shuttering more than 400 of its 1,350 outlets during the first six months of 1997 and ending the year as a $240 million-in-sales company.

In 1998, the Association changed its name to Pine Chemicals Association, Inc. as part of its new Strategic Plan initiative.

In 2000 in Seville, exhibition Pica Ciamarra Associati – Ecology and Architecture; at SAIE – Bologna exhibition Costruire sostenibile l’Europa.

In 2001, PCA opened its first prototype outlet at a mall in North Carolina, a store named Go Portraits Digital Destination.

In December of 2010 the PCA Facebook Page was created, allowing for casual observers, aficionados, artists, and collectors to become ever more connected, allowing for the appreciation of this enchanting art to thrive.

To celebrate the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of the Peace Palace, a commemorative seminar was held for Contracting Parties, representatives of PCA Member States, and other invited guests on October 11, 2013.

Since 2016 on permanent exhibition at the MUVA – Museo Virtuale di Architettura (www.muva.it) Pica Ciamarra Associati – Viaggio virtuale in 50 anni di teoria e pratica progettuale.

In 2018 at the MAMT (Museo Mediterraneo delle Arti della Musica e delle Tradizioni) / Fondazione Mediterraneo the exhibition CIVILIZZARE L’URBANO – Architettura dei Pica Ciamarra Associati.