; 96 years ago 1920 05 as the wooster rubber company wooster ohio u.s. headquarters atlanta georgia u.s. key people james r. caldwell products consumer household goods parent newell brands website www.rubbermaid.com rubbermaid is an american manufacturer and distributor of many household items . it is a subsidiary of newell brands . it is best known for producing food storage containers and trash cans . additionally it produces sheds step stools closets and shelving laundry baskets and other household items . 1 contents 1 history 2 timeline 3 former rubbermaid ceos 4 companies acquired by rubbermaid 5 see also 6 references history edit see also newell rubbermaid history rubbermaid glass food storage containers . founded in may 1920 2 in wooster ohio as the wooster rubber company by nine businessmen . originally wooster rubber manufactured toy balloons sold under the sunshine brand name . 3 in 1933 james r. caldwell and his wife received a patent for their red rubber dustpan . they called their line of rubber kitchen products rubbermaid . 4 in 1934 ebert saw rubbermaid products at a new england department store and believed such products could help his struggling wooster rubber . he engineered a merger of the two enterprises in july 1934 . still named the wooster rubber company the new group began to produce rubber household products under the rubbermaid brand name . in 1999 rubbermaid was purchased by newell for 6 billion . then newell changed its name to newell rubbermaid inc. 3 in 2003 the company announced its move out of wooster to atlanta georgia ; 850 manufacturing and warehouse jobs would be eliminated and 400 office jobs would move to other locations . a rubbermaid distribution center remained at the former headquarters for some time until it was recently purchased by gojo industries inc. 5 timeline edit 1920 wooster rubber is launched . 1927 horatio ebert and errett grable took over managing the company from the original 9 founders . 6 1933 rubbermaid is launched . 1933 first rubbermaid dustpan is introduced . 1934 wooster rubber and rubbermaid merge to form wooster rubber company and sell rubbermaid products . 1942 ww2 eliminated rubbermaid s housewares business but the company was able to convert to military manufacturing . 1947 rubbermaid introduces a line of rubber automotive accessories . 1955 wooster rubber co. offer first public offering . 1956 rubbermaid ventures into plastic products . 1957 wooster rubber company changes name to rubbermaid . 1965 purchases german company dupol . 1976 1 100 members of the united rubber workers union call a strike . 1981 purchases con tact plastic coverings . 1999 newell acquires rubbermaid for 6 billion and changes corporate name to newell rubbermaid . 2003 rubbermaid headquarters move from wooster ohio to atlanta ga. former rubbermaid ceos edit 1933 1959 james caldwell 1959 1980 don noble 7 1980 1993 stanley c. gault 1993 1999 wolfgang schmitt companies acquired by rubbermaid edit prior to rubbermaid being acquired by newell rubbermaid . 1965 dupol german 1981 carlan 1984 little tikes later sold in 2006 by newell rubbermaid . 1985 gott corporation 1986 microcomputer accessories 1986 seco industries 1987 viking brush canadian 1987 anchor hocking later sold in 2001 by newell rubbermaid . 1990 eldon industries 1992 iron mountain forge corporation 1994 carex health care products 1995 injectaplastic s.a french 1996 graco baby products 1997 curver europe later sold in 2005 by newell rubbermaid . see also edit lock & lock newell brands tupperware references edit rubbermaid . homepage . retrieved 2010 10 29 . rubbermaid inc facts information pictures encyclopedia.com articles about rubbermaid inc. . encyclopedia.com . 2006 . retrieved 2016 04 30 . a b encyclopedia.com . encyclopedia.com . rubbermaid blog . blog . retrieved 2010 10 29 . rubbermaid s gone but wooster is still standing . the plain dealer . 2005 03 09 . retrieved 2011 02 22 . katom . rubbermaid company history . retrieved 2014 11 23 . reference for business . reference for business rubbermaid . v t e newell brands newell company rubbermaid newell rubbermaid sanford l.p. elmer s products jarden corporation writing utensils sharpie paper mate dymo expo elmer s krazy glue liquid paper parker uniball prismacolor x acto waterman consumer solutions bionaire breville uk crock pot foodsaver health o meter holmes mr. coffee oster patton rival sunbeam villaware outdoor solutions coleman jostens k2 marmot pure fishing abu garcia berkley penn shakespeare rawlings adio exofficio madshus marker v lkl tools irwin industrial tools lenox tools commercial products rubbermaid commercial products baby and parenting graco nuk aprica baby jogger home solutions rubbermaid calphalon goody contigo bubba branded consumables first alert jarden home brands diamond pine mountain ball bernardin lehigh crawford mapa loew cornell united states playing card company bicycle bee hoyle kem waddington yankee candle resistat rino tuff weed warrior yorker process solutions jarden zinc products jarden plastic solutions jarden applied materials retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title rubbermaid & oldid 734845326 categories newell rubbermaid brandsmanufacturing companies based in north carolinacompanies established in 1933american brandskitchenware brandsfood storagecontainers navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages add links this page was last modified on 17 august 2016 at 02 04 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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