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H.B. Fuller Company is a major American adhesives manufacturing company supplying industrial adhesives worldwide. The company has long received praise in ethical investment circles for such things as careful handling of toxic waste and the nature reserve built around its headquarters. Despite this image, it faced a controversy over glue-sniffing in Latin America in the 1990s.〔 In 2014, the company ranked 957 on the Fortune 1000.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=H.B. Fuller Company )〕 ==History== The company was founded in 1887 by Harvey Benjamin Fuller as a one-man wallpaper-paste shop. Initially incorporated as the Fuller Manufacturing Company, in 1915 the company reincorporated as the H.B. Fuller Company. Elmer Andersen, who would later become governor of Minnesota, served as the company's CEO in the 1940s.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Hoover's Company Records - In-depth Records )〕〔 After beginning his political career, he became a part-time company president, though Andersen would remain involved with the company for many years, stepping down as chairperson in 1992. H.B. Fuller became a publicly held company in 1968.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=H.B. Fuller Company History )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「H.B. Fuller」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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