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The A. T. Cross Company is a major international manufacturer of fine writing instruments,
timepieces, and personal accessories. Cross products are sold to the consumer gift
market through fine stores worldwide. Writing instruments, timepieces , and personal
accessories are sold to the business gift market via a network of companies specializing
in recognition programs. Manufacturing facilities are located in Lincoln, Rhode
Island, U.S.A.
A. T. Cross Company is listed on the
Nasdaq Stock Market LLC® under the symbol ATX.
For more than 158 years, Cross has re-invented writing instruments, combining design
ingenuity with jewelry-quality craftsmanship. We were America's first manufacturer
of quality writing instruments, and that means that we've been making pens people
use, depend on and enjoy for a long time.
While our
history is a story all its own, it all began with Richard Cross, who founded
the company the same year both the Smithsonian and the sewing machine were born,
just as Samuel Morse’s magnetic telegraph pushed Westward and America braced
for a war with Mexico.
Cross was a highly skilled pen and pencil maker, who passed his knowledge on to
his son, Alonzo Townsend Cross. In 1916, the Cross family sold the company to an
employee, Walter R. Boss, who led our growth into the company you know today. Today,
Walter's grandsons are at the helm of the company, which became a public security
traded on the American Stock Exchange in 1971.
What we’re most proud of, though, isn’t all that’s changed in the
158 years we’ve been around. It’s what hasn’t changed. Headquartered
in beautiful Lincoln, Rhode Island, just outside Providence, A. T. Cross is proud
to still be a part of the community we helped build. And we still make products
unsurpassed in quality and value, one at a time and by hand, just as Richard Cross
did.
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