Esselte is privately held company headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut

Stamford, Connecticut

Stamford is a city in Fairfield County, Connecticut, United States. According to the 2010 census, the population of the city is 122,643, making it the fourth largest city in the state and the eighth largest city in New England...

, USA. It is a holding company, specializing in office products. It owns several companies, including Pendaflex

Pendaflex

Pendaflex is an office organization solutions company headquartered in Melville, NY, USA.Pendaflex is a wholly owned subsidiary of Esselte Corporation, a $1.2 billion office products company with subsidiaries in 28 countries and distribution in more than 120 countries. Pendaflex is the principal U.S...

, Leitz

Leitz

The Esselte Leitz GmbH & Co KG, also Leitz, is a German manufacturer of office products. The company, which is headquartered in Stuttgart, is owned by Esselte since 1998. Today the brand Leitz is used by Esselte mainly for filing and workspace products....

, Oxford

Oxford (Company)

Oxford is the Canadian arm of Pendaflex, and makes organizational filing solutions. It is owned by Esselte....

, Xyron, Rapid, and an operating company also called Esselte.

The name Esselte is derived from the original thirteen graphics companies in Sweden that joined together in 1913 to form SLT (Sveriges Litografiska Tryckerier), later renamed Esselte (reflecting the pronunciation of the abbreviation).

• In November 2005, Esselte sold Dymo
  DYMO
  The DYMO routing protocol is successor to the popular Ad hoc On-Demand Distance Vector Routing protocol and shares many of its benefits. It is, however, slightly easier to implement and designed with future enhancements in mind....
  
   to Newell Rubbermaid
  Newell Rubbermaid
  Newell Rubbermaid is a global marketer of consumer and commercial products including such well-known brands as Rubbermaid food storage, home organization, and refuse container products; Sharpie, PaperMate, Parker and Waterman writing instruments; Calphalon gourmet cookware; Goody beauty and...
  
  , for $730 million USD
• In December 2005, Gary J. Brooks was named President and CEO of Esselte
• In March 2010, Esselte acquired Isaberg Rapid AB, Sweden. One of the world's leading companies in stapling.
• In July 2010, Esselte acquired Ampad
  Ampad
  American Pad & Paper LLC, or Ampad, is a manufacturer of office products, including writing pads, specialty papers, filing products and envelopes. Some products are marketed under the Ampad brand name, others are produced for brands including Staples and Wal-Mart. The company makes over 2500...
  
  , manufacturer of branded and private label office and stationery products.