Edward drummond libbey biography

Biography.
Edward Drummond Libbey is regarded as the father of the glass industry in Toledo, Ohio, where he opened the Libbey Glass Company in 1888.
Edward Drummond Libbey is regarded as the father of the glass industry in Toledo, Ohio, where he opened the W. Libbey and Son Company (later the Libbey Glass.

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Libbey Incorporated

American glass company

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Formerly	New England Glass Company Libbey Glass Company Libbey-Owens-Ford
Company type	Public
ISIN	US5298981086
Industry	Glassware manufacturing
Founded	February 6, 1818; 207 years ago (February 6, 1818)
Founder	Edward Drummond Libbey
Headquarters	300 Madison Avenue, Toledo, Ohio , United States
Number of locations	7 facilities, including headquarters (FY 2018)
Key people	Michael P. Bauer (CEO) Jim Burmeister (COO) Dave Anderson (CIO) Juan Amezquita (CFO)
Brands	Libbey Crisa Royal Leerdam Lunita Santa Elenita Pyrorey Spiegelau Nachtmann Viva Scandinavia Syracuse China World Tableware Schonwald Germany Playground
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Number of employees	6,083 (FY 2018) ^[1]
Website	https://libbey.com

Libbey, Inc., (formerly Libbey Glass Company and New England Glass Company) is a glass production company headquartered in Toledo, Ohio. It was originally founded in 181

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Edward Drummond Libbey

Edward Drummond Libbey was a glassmaker, industrialist, artist, innovator and an art collector. This examines the long career of Libbey, particularly his innovation of American flint cut glass, his contributions to the middle-class American table through affordable glassware, and his enormous art glass and painting collections.

Detaljer

Forlag: McFarland & Co Inc
Innbinding: Paperback
Språk: Engelsk
ISBN: 9780786463350
Utgivelsesår: 2011
Format: 25 x 18 cm

Om forfatteren

Edward Drummond Libbey was a glassmaker, industrialist, artist, innovator and art collector. Both practical and creative, he forever changed the glass industry with the automatic bottle-making machine and automatic sheet glass machine. This work examines the long career of Libbey, particularly his innovation of American flint cut glass, his contributions to the middle-class American table through affordable glassware, and his enormous art glass and painting collections, which eventually formed the basis for the Toledo Museum of Art's collection. Libbey single-ha

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Edward Libbey

Edward Drummond Libbey (April 17, 1854 – November 13, 1925) is regarded as the father of the glass industry in Toledo, Ohio, where he opened the Libbey Glass Company (later Libbey, Inc.) in 1888.

Biography

Libbey was born April 17, 1854, in Chelsea, Massachusetts, USA. After attending Boston University, he worked for the New England Glass Company beginning in 1874, becoming president from 1883 to 1886. In 1888 Edward Libbey moved the New England Glass Company from Cambridge, Massachusetts, to Toledo, Ohio.^[1] In 1892 the company changed its name to Libbey Glass Company.^[1]

Libbey's success depended heavily on the inventions of Michael Joseph Owens. In 1903, Libbey founded the Owens Bottle Machine Company (later Owens-Illinois), and in 1916, the Libbey-Owens Sheet Glass Company, serving as president of both firms. Libby Glass had five glass manufacturing facilities in the United States, including one in City of Industry, California. In 2004-2005, Libbey announced that they were closing the California store and were going to begin