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From the Syracuse (NY) Post-Standard:
http://www.syracuse.com/poststandard/stories/index.ssf?/base/business-10/1190192387230130.xml&coll=1
Camillus brand to live on elsewhere
Connecticut firm wins closed cutlery company's name, other intellectual property.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
By Charley Hannagan Staff Writer
A 140-year-old Connecticut company plans to resurrect the Camillus Cutlery brand.
Acme United Corp., based in Fairfield, Conn., paid $185,000 at auction Tuesday for Camillus Cutlery's intellectual property.
Acme plans to use the name "Camillus Cutlery Co.," the Web site, trademarks, brand names and patents to restart the company with knives made by another Upstate manufacturer, said Walter C. Johnsen, Acme's chairman and chief executive. He would not name the company.
Acme would like to rehire Camillus sales and marketing employees to begin rebuilding the brand, Johnsen said.
Acme makes and sells cutting, measuring and safety products to homes, offices, schools and industry.
Also at the auction, Tennessee knife designer Ethan Becker paid $1,000 to buy back his name. Becker had licensed his name and designs to Camillus, but the company did not pay him agreed-upon royalties, he said. Camillus Cutlery also claimed it had the rights to his name for perpetuity, Becker said.
"It made me quite irritated," he said.
Becker has worked out a deal with Ka-Bar Knives Inc., of Olean, to make and sell knives made with his designs.
Some of the tang stamps that were used to place Camillus Cutlery's mark on its products will remain in the village. Tom Williams, the company's historian, bought them.
The auction continues today, when Stampler Auctions places the company's knives on sale at 10 a.m. at the plant on Main Street.
Camillus Cutlery closed in February after 113 years in business in the village. Its lender, Brown Bark I of Texas, is holding the sale to repay the company's debt.
http://www.syracuse.com/poststandard/stories/index.ssf?/base/business-10/1190192387230130.xml&coll=1
Camillus brand to live on elsewhere
Connecticut firm wins closed cutlery company's name, other intellectual property.
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
By Charley Hannagan Staff Writer
A 140-year-old Connecticut company plans to resurrect the Camillus Cutlery brand.
Acme United Corp., based in Fairfield, Conn., paid $185,000 at auction Tuesday for Camillus Cutlery's intellectual property.
Acme plans to use the name "Camillus Cutlery Co.," the Web site, trademarks, brand names and patents to restart the company with knives made by another Upstate manufacturer, said Walter C. Johnsen, Acme's chairman and chief executive. He would not name the company.
Acme would like to rehire Camillus sales and marketing employees to begin rebuilding the brand, Johnsen said.
Acme makes and sells cutting, measuring and safety products to homes, offices, schools and industry.
Also at the auction, Tennessee knife designer Ethan Becker paid $1,000 to buy back his name. Becker had licensed his name and designs to Camillus, but the company did not pay him agreed-upon royalties, he said. Camillus Cutlery also claimed it had the rights to his name for perpetuity, Becker said.
"It made me quite irritated," he said.
Becker has worked out a deal with Ka-Bar Knives Inc., of Olean, to make and sell knives made with his designs.
Some of the tang stamps that were used to place Camillus Cutlery's mark on its products will remain in the village. Tom Williams, the company's historian, bought them.
The auction continues today, when Stampler Auctions places the company's knives on sale at 10 a.m. at the plant on Main Street.
Camillus Cutlery closed in February after 113 years in business in the village. Its lender, Brown Bark I of Texas, is holding the sale to repay the company's debt.
), as they have become collectors' items lately. If they're being produced, I won't feel so bad putting them back into EDC rotation.