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American Safety Razor Company
 PROFILE
With single-digit market share, American Safety Razor (ASR) doesn't exactly give top stubblebuster Gillette a close shave. ASR's main products are value-priced brand-name and private-label shaving razors and blades. It also makes shaving cream, aftershave, and soap; cotton products (cotton swabs, cotton balls, cosmetic pads, coils, tissue, and foot care products); bladed hand tools (carpet knives, paint and window scrapers); bar soap; and specialty industrial and medical blades. ASR sells its wares under such brands as Bump Fighter, Burma Shave, Flicker, GEM, MBC, Personna, and Triple-Flexxx. Investment firm J. W. Childs owns ASR.

 COMPETITION
Société BIC (BB)
The Gillette Company (G)
Pfizer Inc (PFE)

 FINANCIAL OVERVIEW
Fiscal Year-End: December
2000 Sales (mil.): 318.80
1-Yr. Sales Growth: 1.3%
Employees: 2,516
Revenue per employee: $126,709.06

 KEY PEOPLE
• James D. Murphy
    CEO
• J. Andrew Bolt
    CFO

 CONTACT INFO
240 Cedar Knolls Rd., Ste. 401
Cedar Knolls, NJ 07927
US
Phone: 973-753-3000
Fax: 973-326-9004
Online: Web Site

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