Cole-Parmer: Milestones

Cole-Parmer Milestones
On January 24, 1955, a memorandum was distributed at Schaar and Company, an established scientific supply company in Chicago begun in 1905 and owned by Bernard and CL Schaar. The memo read: “You may have heard that Jerry Cole and John Parmer are leaving us soon, and we want them to know they take with them our best wishes for success. John and Jerry are going into business together, and we sincerely hope their success in the new venture will be in direct proportion to their own hopes and expectations.” Little did anyone dream...
1955 -		Cole-Parmer Instrument Company established 224 W. Illinois Street, Chicago, IL 1,200-square-foot loft Owners—Mr. Jerome Cole and Mr. John Parmer Hired first employee, Alberta Pinson- 3/5/55
1957 -		Publication of first nationally direct-mailed catalog
1960 -		Moved to 7330 N. Clark Street 12,000-square-foot facility
1968 -		Acquired Barnant Company (Masterflex® pumps) Moved to 7425 N. Oak Park Ave., Niles, IL 47,000-square-foot building, three acres of land with 38 associates. Before company moved again, the building was expanded three times and additional warehouse and office space was leased.
1972 -		International Division established
1975 -		Published and direct-mailed the first 4-color color catalog in the industry
1985 -		Wholesale Department established
1989 -		Opened Labcor in Montreal, Canada Opened service center in Bejing, China
1991 -		Acquired Gilmont? Instruments
1995 -		Acquired Manostat® Pumps
1996 -		Moved to our present, 269,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art facility in Vernon Hills, IL
1996 -		Opened Cole-Parmer U.K. in London, England www.coleparmer.com debuted on April 22
1999 -		e-Commerce division established in April
2000 -		Introduced customer-personalized Web profiles, “My CP”
2001 -		Introduced value-added Web content, including MSDS, product search and selection tools, operating manuals, technical information library Introduced complete customer-defined account management Acquired by Fisher International
2002 -		Launched InnoCal® Calibration Service and Repair division
2004 -		August 27, 2004 published the 2005/06 Cole-Parmer General Catalog containing 60,000 items 10,000 new products in all
2005 -		Cole-Parmer China established in Shanghai, China
2006 -		Cole-Parmer established office in Mumbai, India