Bemis Company, Inc. is an American manufacturer of flexible packaging products and pressure-sensitive materials. Bemis divisions are located in 13 countries and its products are distributed worldwide. Bemis is part of the S&P 500 index. Bemis Inc. was founded by Judson Moss Bemis in 1858 in St. Louis, Missouri as a manufacturer of printed cotton bags for food products. Its first location was on the second floor of a machine shop, which provided steam to operate the printing presses and readily-available maintenance personnel for machine repairs. Two key innovations Bemis' company... originally pioneered were the printing and machine-sewing of bags. Bemis' first order was for 200 half-barrel sacks. To allay worries that machine-sewn bags were inferior to traditional hand-sewn bags, Judson Bemis unconditionally guaranteed every bag his company manufactured. In 1867, Judson Bemis' brother, Stephen A. Bemis, returned from the gold rush and joined Judson in the bag manufacturing business. Bemis Bro. Bag Co.
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| NYSE symbol: | BMS |
| Founded: | 1858 |
| Headquarters: | Neenah, Wisconsin |
| Legal structure: | Public company |
| Annual revenue: | $3,779,370,000 |
| Net income: | $166,210,000 |
| Operating income: | $500,700,000 |
| Market cap: | $2,700,000,000 |
| Industries: | Packaging Paper and Plastics Film, Coated and Laminated, Coated and Laminated Paper, NEC, Plastics, Foil, and Coated Paper Bags, Uncoated Paper and Multiwall Bag Manufacturing, Die-Cut Paper and Paperboard and Cardboard, Sanitary Paper Products, Envelope Manufacturing, Stationery, Tablet, and Related Product Manufacturing, Converted Paper and Paperboard Products, NEC |