founded newark new jersey founder andrew and jacob geiger headquarters lewiston maine united states number of locations 16 key people gene geiger ceo products promotional products services advertising revenue us 175 million 2012 1 owner geiger family number of employees 500 employees 550 independent sales partners website http www.geiger.com geiger is an advertising specialties company with more than 500 employees and more than 550 sales representatives . it is the industry s largest family owned and family managed distributorship citation needed and is based in lewiston maine . initially named geiger brothers it was founded in newark new jersey in 1878 spanning 5 generations . 2 history edit the company was founded in 1878 when brothers andrew and jacob geiger took over their father s two room print shop in newark new jersey . a staff of 4 the brothers a printer and a bookkeeper produced a small line that included advertising calendars fans and greeting cards . the second generation brothers frank charles and george entered the company in the early 20th century . they added date books and diaries to their expanding line . frank s two sons ray and frank joined the business in the 1930s . frank led the firm into the distribution of advertising specialty products made by other companies . ray acquired the renowned farmers almanac becoming its 6th editor for the next 60 years . the company moved to lewiston maine in 1955 . their facility has been expanded four times to its current 140 000 foot size . two of ray s sons manage the company today . gene is ceo and president and peter geiger is executive vice president and editor of the farmers almanac on march 6 2013 geiger agreed to divest its manufactured products division to canada based blueline . 3 farmers almanac edit the farmers almanac is a compendium of knowledge on weather gardening cooking remedies managing your household preserving the earth and more . published every year since 1818 it was founded by david young philom . in 1949 ray and ann geiger obtain the rights to almanac publishing company farmers almanac . geiger bros. has produced and distributed the farmers almanac ever since . peter geiger succeeded ray geiger as editor in 1994 and is the current philom . notes edit 2012 distributor top 40 . asi publications . may 9 2012 . retrieved march 13 2013 . company history geiger . gale . 2002 . retrieved march 12 2013 . blueline rediform to acquire sungraphix . ppb newslink . march 6 2013 . retrieved march 12 2013 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title geiger corporation & oldid 743879237 categories companies based in mainecompanies established in 1878hidden categories all articles with unsourced statementsarticles with unsourced statements from may 2016 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 11 october 2016 at 20 03 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view