manufacturing company . bemis company inc. type public traded as nyse bms industry packaging founded 1858 founder judson moss bemis headquarters neenah wisconsin u.s. key people william f. austen president and ceo michael b. clauer vice president and cfo 1 revenue us 5.3 b fy 2011 2 operating income us 367m fy 2011 2 net income us 184m fy 2011 2 total assets us 4.32 b fy 2011 3 total equity us 1.58 b fy 2011 3 number of employees 20 165 2011 website www.bemis.com bemis company inc. is a global manufacturer of flexible packaging products ranging from self venting cook in bag packaging and retort packaging for shelf stable products to vacuum packaging for meat products and puncture resistant sterile medical packaging and pressure sensitive materials . bemis is headquartered in the united states . its divisions are located in 12 countries and its films for packaging products and adhesive materials are distributed worldwide . contents 1 history 2 see also 3 notes 4 references 5 external links history edit bemis inc. was founded by judson moss bemis in 1858 in st. louis missouri as a manufacturer of printed cotton bags for food products . its first location was on the second floor of a machine shop which provided steam to operate the printing presses and readily available maintenance personnel for machine repairs . two key innovations bemis company originally pioneered were the printing and machine sewing of bags . traditionally bags were stenciled and hand sewn . bemis first order was for 200 half barrel sacks . to allay worries that machine sewn bags were inferior to traditional hand sewn bags judson bemis unconditionally guaranteed every bag his company manufactured . in 1867 judson bemis brother stephen a. bemis returned from the gold rush and joined judson in the bag manufacturing business . bemis bro . bag co. opened its second plant in 1880 in minneapolis followed by a third in omaha nebraska in 1888 . these plants were followed by others in new orleans superior wi san francisco indianapolis memphis kansas city seattle and winnipeg . in the early 1900s bemis opened its first paper bag manufacturing plant . on july 25 2003 bemis company inc. and upm kymmene nyse upm agreed to terminate their agreement to sell bemis pressure sensitive materials business to upm kymmene . on april 15 2003 the department of justice was granted an injunction to block the transaction . 4 in 2011 the company had net sales of 5.3 billion operating 78 facilities in 12 countries . over two thirds of bemis packaging is used in the food industry with the balance used in markets including medical pharmaceutical chemical and agribusiness . bemis pressure sensitive products are used in industries including graphic arts digital imaging assembly engineering communications and medical . 5 in july 2012 bemis company announced a strategic partnership with norwegian printed electronics company thin film electronics asa to bring printed electronics to existing bemis packaging lines . 6 in 2013 the company acquired a china based film platform . 7 in 2014 bemis sold its paper packaging division to hood packaging corporation . see also edit bemis omaha bag company building bemis tennessee bemiston alabama notes edit http phx.corporate ir.net phoenix.zhtml c 97209 & p irol governance a b c bemis company bms annual sec income statement filing via wikinvest . a b bemis company bms annual sec balance sheet filing via wikinvest . bemis upm kymmene terminate purchase and sale agreement . bemis company inc. company overview financial times could printed electronics be getting a cigarette break bemis company acquires china based specialty film platform . july 1 2013 . retrieved jun 14 2013 . references edit bemis 2007 annual report and form 10 k as of december 31 2007 bemis company inc. 150th anniversary bemis to acquire alcan packaging food americas external links edit company homepage retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title bemis company & oldid 721482460 categories companies listed on the new york stock exchangecompanies established in 1858manufacturing companies based in wisconsinwinnebago county wisconsin1858 establishments in missourihidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters 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 deutsch edit links this page was last modified on 22 may 2016 at 04 07 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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