INDEX: Fiskars Display Merchandising Fixtures

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BACKSTORY: The Fiskars Corporation (Fiskars Oyj Abp) is a consumer goods company founded in 1649 in Fiskars Village (Finnish: Fiskarsin Ruukki), a locality now in the town of Raseborg, Finland, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) west of Helsinki. Fiskars’ global headquarters are located in the Arabianranta district of Helsinki, Finland.

Fiskars is best known for its orange-handled scissors, created in 1967. The company operates as an integrated consumer goods company and has two strategic business units: SBU Living and SBU Functional.^[3]

The Fiskars Corporation was formed in 1649 when a Dutch merchant named Peter Thorwöste was given by Christina, Queen of Sweden a charter to establish a blast furnace and forging operation in the small village of Fiskars; however he was not permitted to produce cannons.^[4] Making it the oldest privately owned company in Finland^[5]. The furnace produced pig iron that was shingled to wrought iron in the finery forges powered by water wheels. In the early years, Fiskars made nails, wire, hoes, and metal reinforced wheels from wrought iron.

In the late eighteenth century, copper was discovered in nearby Orijärvi and thus the focus of production shifted to processing copper from the Orijärvi mine. For almost 80 years, Fiskars main source of business came from copper however, by the nineteenth century there was little copper left in Orijärvi.^[6]

In 1822 the apothecary Johan Jacob Julin (later, von Julin) from Turku acquired the Fiskars ironworks and village. During this time the ironworks were actively developed and production focused on processing iron. In 1832 the first cutlery mill in Finland was founded in Fiskars with the production range increasing from knives to include forks and scissors.

In 1915 Fiskars was listed at Helsinki Stock Exchange. In September 2015, Fiskars celebrated 100 years of being listed on the Nasdaq Helsinki Stock Exchange along with Nokia, Wärtsilä and UPM.^[6]

Fiskars is perhaps best known for its scissors and their distinct orange colored handles. The first pair was manufactured in 1967 and had prototypes with handles in black, red, green and orange. After an internal vote at Fiskars, the orange color was chosen. That same orange color, Fiskars Orange, was officially registered as a trademark in Finland in 2003 and in the US in 2007.^[6] In 1977, Fiskars founded a scissors factory in the United States to provide a basis for international trade and further expansion.

Waterford Crystal Ball, designed for the New Year’s celebrations at Times Square

In 2007 Fiskars acquired both Iittala^[7] and Leborgne^[8] which strengthened the company’s position in the kitchenware and table top categories as well as the garden tools business. The acquisition of Royal Copenhagen in 2013 complemented Fiskars tableware offering with hand-painted porcelain and strengthened the company in the Nordic countries and in Asia. In 2015, Fiskars acquired the WWRD group of companies (WWRD)^[9] and its portfolio of luxury home and lifestyle brands, which include Waterford, Wedgwood, Royal Doulton, Royal Albert and Rogaška. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

BACKSTORY: Scissors are hand-operated shearing tools. A pair of scissors consists of a pair of blades pivoted so that the sharpened edges slide against each other when the handles (bows) opposite to the pivot are closed. Scissors are used for cutting various thin materials, such as paper, cardboard, metal foil, cloth, rope, and wire. A large variety of scissors and shears all exist for specialized purposes. Hair-cutting shears and kitchen shears are functionally equivalent to scissors, but the larger implements tend to be called shears. Hair-cutting shears have specific blade angles ideal for cutting hair. Using the incorrect type of scissors to cut hair will result in increased damage or split ends, or both, by breaking the hair. Kitchen shears, also known as kitchen scissors, are intended for cutting and trimming foods such as meats.

Inexpensive, mass-produced modern scissors are often designed ergonomically with composite thermoplastic and rubber handles.

The noun scissors is treated as a plural noun, and therefore takes a plural verb (e.g., these scissors are).^[1] Alternatively, the tool is referred to by the singular phrase a pair of scissors.^[2] The word shears is used to describe similar instruments that are larger in size and for heavier cutting.^[3]

The earliest known scissors appeared in Mesopotamia 3,000 to 4,000 years ago. These were of the ‘spring scissor’ type comprising two bronze blades connected at the handles by a thin, flexible strip of curved bronze which served to hold the blades in alignment, to allow them to be squeezed together, and to pull them apart when released.^[5]

Spring scissors continued to be used in Europe until the 16th century. However, pivoted scissors of bronze or iron, in which the blades were pivoted at a point between the tips and the handles, the direct ancestor of modern scissors, were invented by the Romans around 100 AD.^[6] They entered common use in not only ancient Rome, but also China, Japan, and Korea, and the idea is still used in almost all modern scissors. (SOURCE: Wikipedia)

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