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SSL Americas, Inc. company history timeline

1968

Founder William M. Scholl died in 1968, and his heirs incorporated Scholl Inc. as a public company to settle his estate.

1971

Founder William M. Scholl died in 1968, and his heirs incorporated Scholl Inc. as a public company to settle his estate. Its first public stock offering was in 1971.

1978

In 1978, the company was sold to Schering-Plough Corp., a large New Jersey maker of pharmaceuticals.

1987

1987: Non-United States operations of Scholl are sold to British firm, which takes the name Scholl plc.

1993

By early 1993, many of LIG's new businesses were in the red, but Woltz managed to cover up this fact, misleading investors.

1994

The company had to take a $220 million charge in 1994 for its discontinued operations, and ended up in the red by some $37 million.

Though the company's sales were up as much as 10 percent for 1994, operating profits were eaten away by the high cost of promotion and distribution.

1998

1998: Seton Scholl is formed out of Seton Healthcare and Scholl plc.

1999

In 1999, the British Office of Fair Trade announced its second investigation in five years into LIG's trading practices in England, where the company held 70 percent of the condom market.

1999: Seton Scholl buys London International; new company is named SSL International plc.

2002

Operating costs also ate into SSL's profits, and in 2002 the company had to issue a warning that it would not meet its profit goals, and it would have to lay off workers.

SSL's launch of Flight Socks in 2002 was one of its most successful new products for Doctor Scholl's.

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