Congoleum Corp. - Specimen Stock Certificate
Inv# SE3736 Specimen Stock
Specimen Stock printed by American Bank Note Company. Rare!
Headquarters: Mercerville-Hamilton Square, Hamilton Township, NJ. Founded in 1886. Congoleum Nairn is purchased by Bath Industries, a major ship building operation and changes the company name to Congoleum. Congoleum Corp., a manufacturer of vinyl sheet and tile products is among the nation’s largest manufacturers of resilient vinyl flooring products, for both commercial and residential markets. Its corporate history includes such industry highlights as the introduction of the first no-wax floor and the first chemically embossed vinyl-sheet floor. Throughout a complex corporate history the Congoleum name has remained a constant. In 1995 American Biltrite Inc. secured a majority of Congoleum’s voting power, and its chairman and chief executive officer also became Congoleum’s chairman, president, and chief executive officer. Therefore, although nominally independent and publicly traded, Congoleum became in effect a subsidiary of American Biltrite. Read more at https://www.encyclopedia.com/books/politics-and-business-magazines/congoleum-corp
Stock and Bond Specimens are made and usually retained by a printer as a record of the contract with a client, generally with manuscript contract notes such as the quantity printed. Specimens are sometimes produced for use by the printing company's sales team as examples of the firm’s products. These are usually marked "Specimen" and have no serial numbers.
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