W.B. Mason
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| Private | |
| Industry | Workplace Products |
| Founded | 1898 |
| Founder | William Betts Mason |
| Headquarters | Brockton, Massachusetts, U.S. |
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Area served
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United States |
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Key people
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Steve Greene, Chairman Leo J. Meehan, III (President and CEO) John Greene, President Office Products Division Christopher Meehan, COO |
| Revenue | $1.455 billion |
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Number of employees
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3,435 |
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WhattaBargain! Outlet Stores W.B. Mason Interiors |
| Website | www |
W.B. Mason is an office products retailer in the US. The largest privately held office products retailer in the country, it competes with Staples, OfficeMax, and Office Depot. The company is based in Brockton, Massachusetts, and primarily serves New England, the Mid-Atlantic, and the Mid-West. It has over 60 distribution centers across the United States. The company has 3,435 employees, 1160 sales representatives, over 750 delivery trucks (leased from Ryder), and over 230,000 customers. W.B. Mason is the largest customer of Essendant.
W.B. Mason was founded in 1898 by William Betts Mason in Brockton, Massachusetts, which remains its headquarters.
William Betts Mason was born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1865. Upon his father's death in 1872, he emigrated to the United States with his American-born mother and two sisters where they settled in his mother's hometown of Brockton. In the 1880s he began working in printing and signmaking, eventually becoming a master engraver.
In 1898, Mason founded W.B. Mason, a business that sold printing, engraved products and rubber stamps. As Brockton prospered with the growth of the shoe industry in the early 20th century, W.B. Mason added office supplies to the company's sales offering. Mason died in 1912.
W.B. Mason continued as a family-operated business until 1943, when it was sold to a Brockton businessman, Samuel Kovner, who as a boy swept the W.B. Mason floors and worked his way up through the ranks.
Under Kovner, the company reached sales of $243,000 by 1963 at which time it was sold to Kovner's daughter and son-in-law, Helen and Joseph Greene. Greene added furniture sales to the company's selection and the W.B. Mason Company reached nearly a million dollars in sales upon his death in 1973. After his death, Helen Greene moved her son Steven Greene into the leadership position of the company, and under his leadership the company grew to $20 million in sales by 1993.
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