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src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Stanley_Bostitch_Logo.svg/250px-Stanley_Bostitch_Logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="250" height="71" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Stanley_Bostitch_Logo.svg/375px-Stanley_Bostitch_Logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cb/Stanley_Bostitch_Logo.svg/500px-Stanley_Bostitch_Logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="350" data-file-height="100" /></a></span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Company type</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Subsidiary" title="Subsidiary">Subsidiary</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Industry</th><td class="infobox-data category">Manufacturing</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founded</th><td class="infobox-data">1896</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Founder</th><td class="infobox-data agent">Thomas Briggs</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Headquarters</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/East_Greenwich,_Rhode_Island" title="East Greenwich, Rhode Island">East Greenwich, Rhode Island</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Products</th><td class="infobox-data">Fastening tools</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Parent_company" class="mw-redirect" title="Parent company">Parent</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Stanley_Black_%26_Decker" title="Stanley Black & Decker">Stanley Black & Decker</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.bostitch.com/">www.bostitch.com</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Stanley Bostitch</b>, previously and more commonly known as simply <b>Bostitch</b>, is an American company that specializes in the design and manufacture of fastening tools (such as <a href="/wiki/Stapler" title="Stapler">staplers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Staple_gun" title="Staple gun">staple guns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nail_gun" title="Nail gun">nailers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Riveter" class="mw-redirect" title="Riveter">riveters</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Glue_gun" class="mw-redirect" title="Glue gun">glue guns</a>) and <a href="/wiki/Fasteners" class="mw-redirect" title="Fasteners">fasteners</a> (such as <a href="/wiki/Nail_(fastener)" title="Nail (fastener)">nails</a>, <a href="/wiki/Screw" title="Screw">screws</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Staple_(fastener)" title="Staple (fastener)">staples</a>). Its product range covers home, office, like the <a href="/wiki/Pencil_sharpener" title="Pencil sharpener">pencil sharpener</a>, construction and industrial uses, like the <a href="/wiki/Power_tool" title="Power tool">power tool</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The company developed a number of improvements to what became the modern desk stapler. It is a subsidiary of <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Black_%26_Decker" title="Stanley Black & Decker">Stanley Black & Decker</a>. In August 2013, Stanley Black & Decker began selling <a href="/wiki/Tradesmen" class="mw-redirect" title="Tradesmen">tradesmen</a>’s <a href="/wiki/Power_tools" class="mw-redirect" title="Power tools">power tools</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mechanic" title="Mechanic">mechanics</a>’ <a href="/wiki/Hand_tools" class="mw-redirect" title="Hand tools">hand tools</a> and <a href="/wiki/Pneumatic_tools" class="mw-redirect" title="Pneumatic tools">pneumatic tools</a> under the Bostitch brand at <a href="/wiki/Walmart" title="Walmart">Walmart</a> stores and online distributors.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bostitch&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bostitch was founded in <a href="/wiki/Arlington,_Massachusetts" title="Arlington, Massachusetts">Arlington, Massachusetts</a> in 1896 by Thomas Briggs as the Boston Wire Stitcher Company. Briggs had invented a machine that stitched books from a coil of wire. The company began manufacturing various other kinds of staplers for industrial use.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>It largely focused on commercial stitching machines. However, in 1914, the company introduced its first "portable stapling machine", the Model AO,<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> considered an ancestor of the modern desk stapler.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1924, the company introduced the first stapler to use modern style cohered strip staples, the Bostitch No. 1.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This was a revolutionary design because it was inexpensive and reliable.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, the company joined five other firms to form the <a href="/wiki/New_England_Small_Arms" title="New England Small Arms">New England Small Arms</a> Corporation for manufacture of <a href="/wiki/M1918_Browning_Automatic_Rifle" class="mw-redirect" title="M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle">M1918 Browning Automatic Rifles</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In 1948, the company officially changed its name to BOSTITCH, a <a href="/wiki/Portmanteau" class="mw-redirect" title="Portmanteau">portmanteau</a> of "Boston" and "stitch". In 1957, the company moved from <a href="/wiki/Westerly,_Rhode_Island" title="Westerly, Rhode Island">Westerly, Rhode Island</a> to its current location in <a href="/wiki/East_Greenwich,_Rhode_Island" title="East Greenwich, Rhode Island">East Greenwich, Rhode Island</a>. </p><p>In 1966, <a href="/wiki/Textron" title="Textron">Textron</a> purchased the company, and in January 1986 <a href="/wiki/Stanley_Works" class="mw-redirect" title="Stanley Works">Stanley Works</a> acquired the company from Textron.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Trivia">Trivia</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Bostitch&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Trivia"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In the German part of <a href="/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland">Switzerland</a>, Bostitch became a commonly used <a href="/w/index.php?title=Wk:deonym&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Wk:deonym (page does not exist)">deonym</a> (pendant to <a href="/wiki/Eponym" title="Eponym">eponym</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The verb "bostitchen" is a synonym for stapling and is even used in official documents.<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span 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