Adams Manufacturing Corp — 2 Products

Phone: 800-237-8287

After returning from Vietnam, company founder Bill Adams worked in the Pittsburgh Public Schools as an elementary school librarian. In the late 1970s, and with a modest $10,000 inheritance, Bill resigned from his job to concentrate on growing the suction cup business.\n\nSelling out of the back of a 1976 Chevy Chevette, Bill focused on marketing suction cups that enabled retailers to hang signs in their windows without sticky tape residue. With huge demand for these products, it didn\u2019t take long for the business to expand nationwide, selling into prominent hardware, craft, variety, and office supply stores.