Fortune Brands
Type	Public (NYSE: FO)
Founded	1969
Headquarters	Deerfield, Illinois, USA
Key people	Norm Wesley, Chairman & CEO
Industry	Green Inc.
Products	Moen Master Lock Jim Beam DeKuyper Knob Creek Vox Vodka El Tesoro Titleist FootJoy
Revenue	$7.32 billion USD (2004) [1]
Employees	34,000
Website	www.fortunebrands.com

Fortune Brands, NYSE: FO is a holding company founded in 1969 as American Brands and later re-named in 1997. The corporate headquarters are in Deerfield, Illinois in the United States. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... New York Stock Exchange (June 2003) The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ... Incorporated Village in 1903. ... Moen is the name of the following places: An anglisised spelling of Møn. ... Master Lock is a manufacturer of padlocks and combination locks. ... The standard white Jim Beam label Jim Beam is a brand of bourbon whiskey, distilled in Clermont, Kentucky. ... John DeKuyper & Son is a maker of generally inexpensive liqueurs such as Triple Sec and various flavors of Schnapps such as Pucker. ... Knob Creek can refer to: Any of several streams by that name. ... Titleist is a brand name owned by the Acushnet Company, headquartered in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. ... Revenue is a U.S. business term for the amount of money that a company earns from its activities in a given period, mostly from sales of products and/or services to customers. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, Maldives the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... shelby was here 2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... A Web site (or colloquially, Website) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP... The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), nicknamed the Big Board, is a New York City-based stock exchange. ... A holding company is a company that owns enough voting stock in another firm to control management and operations by influencing or electing its board of directors. ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Incorporated Village in 1903. ...

Origins

The American Tobacco Company was founded in 1890, and in 1969 American Brands became its parent company. The American Tobacco Company was founded in 1890 by J. B. Duke as a merger between a number of tobacco manufacturers including Allen and Ginter. ... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... For the Stargate SG-1 episode, see 1969 (Stargate SG-1). ...

Divisions

ACCO

In 1987 American Brands acquired ACCO, a holding company which owned several office supply subsidiaries, which included the Swingline brand. In 2005, the company spun-off ACCO to shareholders, and immediately thereafter ACCO merged with General Binding Corporation. This merged company is now known as ACCO Brands. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Swingline is a brand of the American Clip Company (ACCO) that specializes in manufacturing staplers and hole punchers and is headquartered in Lincolnshire, Illinois. ... 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... General Binding Corporation (NASDAQ: GBND) was an office supplies manufacturer with many highly recognized global brands for binding, lamination, and display. ... ACCO Brands (NYSE: ABD) is an umbrella company, created by the purchase of ACCO from Fortune Brands by General Binding Corporation (GBC). ...

Acushnet

The Acushnet Company (purchased in 1976) is Fortune Brands' golf division, producing the Titleist brands of golf balls, FootJoy sports-related clothing such as shoes and gloves, and Cobra golf clubs. The Acushnet Company is a sporting goods company that focuses primarily on golf-related products. ... 1976 (MCMLXXVI) was a leap year starting on Thursday. ... Golf is a sport in which individual players or teams hit a ball into a hole using various clubs, and also is one of the few ball games that does not use a fixed standard playing area. ... Titleist is a brand name owned by the Acushnet Company, headquartered in Fairhaven, Massachusetts. ... A golf ball is a ball designed for use in the game of golf. ...

Fortune sold off the Acushnet Company's Acushnet Rubber division in 1985, which was Acushnet's original business (circa early 1900s). 1985 (MCMLXXXV) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s As a means of recording the passage of time, the 20th century was that century which lasted from 1901–2000 in the sense of the Gregorian calendar (1900–1999...

Home and hardware

Included in this division are Waterloo Industries, Masterbrand Cabinets, Moen, Fypon, Therma-Tru, Simonton Windows, and Master Lock, among other well known brands. Master Lock is a manufacturer of padlocks and combination locks. ...

Wine and spirits

Fortune Brands has been building a stable of well known wine and spirits brands including Jim Beam, Knob Creek and El Tesoro. A glass of red wine This article is about the alcoholic beverage. ... Various distilled beverages in a Spanish bar A distilled beverage is a liquid preparation meant for consumption containing ethyl alcohol (ethanol) purified by distillation from a fermented substance such as fruit, vegetables, or grain. ... The standard white Jim Beam label Jim Beam is a brand of bourbon whiskey, distilled in Clermont, Kentucky. ... Knob Creek bourbon is produced by the Jim Beam distillery in Clermont, Kentucky. ...

In July 2005, Fortune Brands acquired a number of additional brands from Pernod Ricard following Pernod Ricard’s acquisition of Allied Domecq. These brands include Canadian Club, Clos du Bois, Courvoisier, Harvey's Bristol Cream, Laphroaig, Maker's Mark, and Sauza. Pernod Ricard is a French company producing alcoholic beverages. ... Allied Domecq PLC was a company that operated spirits, wine, and quick service restaurant businesses. ... Canadian Club is a brand of whisky from Canada. ... A bottle of Courvoisier VS cognac Courvoisier is a type of cognac. ... John Harvey started as a wine merchant in Bristol, England in 1796, specialising in importing Spanish and Portuguese wines. ... A distinctive pagoda style kiln chimney at Laphroaig Laphroaig (pronounced la-FROYG or [1]) is a single malt Scotch whisky distillery situated on the island of Islay off the West coast of Scotland. ... Historic Makers Mark Distillery The Quart House on the distillery grounds. ...