Russ Berry Bears at Valentine Day

Russ Berrie Bears & Gifts at Eden4gifts.co.uk

All our wonderful bears and a range of gifts at Eden4gifts.co.uk are
made by Russ Berrie.

Russ was founded in 1963 and named after the founder Russell Berrie.
Before starting his own business, Russell started out as a toy sales
representative, who then began to design his own products. Russ
started his business with only $500 and ran it out of a rented garage in
Palisades Park, NJ. His first product to reach the shelves were the plush
Fuzzy Wuzzies in 1964. By 1966 the company had exceeded one million
dollars in annual sales. Passionate about the business of selling and
about his products, Russ grew into a major world wide company and set
the industry standard for customer service.
By the company's tenth anniversary, Berrie had established a company
headquarters in Oakland, NJ as well as a distribution center in California.
In the late 70's, Russ Berrie and Co., Inc. expanded Internationally in
three different countries, this helped to grow and diversify the company.
In 1982 the company was recognized by INC magazine as one of the top
500 fastest growing privately held companies in the US. By March 1984
Russ went public, trading shares on the New York Stock Exchange
under the symbol of RUS.

In the early 90's, Troll mania boosted the company's sales almost
doubling, but in 1992, ironically, trolls are what shattered sales by 2
million dollars when the public lost interest. Although this was
devastating to Berrie, he did not stop there. He sought out to find what
was hot in the market place and started to develop more baby items,
home decor, teddy bears, cards and impulse items.

In 1995 Russ Berrie introduced a new line of nostalgic bears called
'Bears from the Past' which became a favorite amongst many. In '98,
Fortune magazine recognized Russ Berrie as the 34th Most Generous
Philanthropist in the Country. As the promising small company kept
growing and became ever so popular, in 2001 it was named one of the
best 200 small companies in America by Forbes magazine. By 2002, the
company acquired Sassy, Inc. and on Christmas day that year, Russell
Berrie past away. Till this day, Russ Berrie and Co., Inc. is still a major
seller in toys as well as other products and the employees honor the
memory of it's founder by striving to meet the standard of excellence that
Berrie had set as the leader for over forty years.

Russ Berry Monkey at Valentine Flowers
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