; 67 years ago 1949 headquarters olean new york u.s. key people jim stitt sr. citation needed products cutlery revenue 200 000 000 number of employees 701 website www.cutco.com cutco corporation formerly alcas corporation is the parent company of cutco cutlery corp. direct sales marketing company vector marketing ka bar knives inc. and schilling forge . its primary brand is the name cutco . the company was founded in 1949 by alcoa and case cutlery hence al cas to manufacture knives . the management purchased the company from alcoa in 1982 and the company acquired vector marketing corporation in 1985 . 1 in early 2009 alcas changed its name to cutco the name of the primary product . contents 1 products 2 vector marketing 3 cutco foundation 4 references 5 external links products edit cutco is a brand of cutlery and kitchen accessories directly marketed to customers through in home demonstrations by independent sales representatives who are mostly college students . 2 3 more than 100 kitchen cutlery products are sold under the cutco name as well as a variety of kitchen utensils cookware sporting and outdoors knives . although the products are not typically purchased in retail stores cutco has opened six of its own retail stores indianapolis indiana ; okemos michigan ; st. louis missouri ; novi michigan ; edina minnesota ; and erie pennsylvania . 4 the company s knives are produced in olean new york united states while other products are made in mexico and china . 5 vector marketing edit a few cutco knives and a pair of super shears main article vector marketing vector marketing is a multi level marketing group that builds its work force through advertising via newspapers direct marketing word of mouth posted advertisements letters and various media on the internet . 6 7 8 their fliers advertising student work are distributed in many high schools and college campuses across the united states and canada . students are hired to sell cutco products mainly kitchen knives to customers starting with their friends and family then branching out through recommendations all through one on one demonstrations . while vector required a deposit on the sample kit representatives were issued in the past this was changed in 2011 and deposits are no longer required from representatives . 9 10 11 12 cutco foundation edit cutco established the cutco foundation in 1996 to contribute to communities in which cutco has a substantial presence . the foundation has donated to pi sigma epsilon s annual pro am sell a thon an annual sales competition for college students . 13 cutco is particularly active near its home base of new york and the foundation has contributed to st. bonaventure university southern tier catholic schools friends of good music jamestown community college comstock hospice care network alfred university olean general hospital and the allegheny river valley trail . 14 references edit cutco company history chu kathy . college students learn from job of hard knocks door to door sales draw thousands every summer . usa today . retrieved 2007 10 12 . davis jana . what is work for students anyway . schouten cory 2011 03 28 . roundup cutco marshalls performance bicycle sensu . indianapolis business journal . retrieved 28 march 2011 . made in america cutco.com kellman beth robinson april 2 2010 . better business bureau offers advice on multilevel marketing . the oakland press . oakland county michigan . retrieved may 19 2011 . deal a. matthew september 26 2006 . high wages for student work but beware . campus news . the carolinian . p. 1 . retrieved june 5 2008 . gunn eileen august 5 2008 . summer job nice pay if you can cut it . the wall street journal . p. d4 . retrieved april 21 2011 . episode 10 . street cents january 14 2002 blue eyed devil don t get scammed looking for work while in college . lsureveille.com . retrieved april 8 2012 . lucchesi nick february 4 2004 . vector marketing targets unaware college students . news . the journal . p. 2 . retrieved june 5 2008 . da costa polyana august 21 2004 . firm misled sales recruits to sell knives students say . salem statesman journal . archived from the original on july 4 2008 . events & programs . pi sigma epsilon . retrieved 21 june 2011 . cutco foundation . retrieved 21 june 2011 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title cutco & oldid 740055714 categories kitchen knife brandscompanies established in 1949companies based in cattaraugus county new yorkhidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from april 2016pages 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 add links this page was last modified on 18 september 2016 at 20 00 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; 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