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Graco (baby products)
Recalls
Most recently, Graco has been involved in a voluntary re-
call of several popular models of its strollers and travel
systems due to fingertip amputation.[1]
Graco is a brand of baby products company owned by On Wednesday, February 9th, Graco quietly laid off 15
Newell Rubbermaid. It was founded in 1942 in Philadel- employees due to poor business performance. This is the
phia, Pennsylvania by Russell Gray and Robert Cone most recent in a series of firings.
Products,
(hence the name) as Graco Metal Products a company
that fabricated machine and car parts. After Gray left the
company in 1953, Cone moved the company in a different
References
direction, manufacturing the first automatic swing for [1] http://www.cpsc.gov/cpscpub/prerel/prhtml10/
children, the Swyngomatic, designed by Harold Kosoff in 10115.html
1982. In 1987 the company developed the Pack N’ Play
Portable Playard portable playpen designed by Nate
Saint. It also developed the combination stroller and
External links
child safety seat called the Travel System in the mid 90’s. • Graco baby products
In 1998 it acquired Century Car Seat company. It was ac- • Graco history
quired by Rubbermaid in 1996, which was acquired to be- • Order Replacement parts here
come Newell Rubbermaid in 1999. • Graco Travel System
All of their products are certified by the Juvenile
Products Manufacturers Association.
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Categories:
• Infant products companies
• Companies established in 1942
• Babycare
• Infancy
• Baby products
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