1916: A one-story, modern factory was built at the present location of Standard Register's headquarters in Dayton on Albany Street.
1920: Revenue reach $1 million.
1940: Revenues reach $5 million. At that time a new plant was built at the Dayton location. Company buys a carbon plant to insure providing the highest quality product possible to its customers.
1940-44: The outbreak of World War II brought government restrictions and business forms were declared nonessential. But General Motors President Charles E. Wilson realized that "no physical activity goes on in our modern age without a piece of paper moving along to guide it." Paperwork was found to be important to the war effort because it controlled munitions manufacturing, tank building operations, material procurement, troop movement and many other things. Marginally punched forms and other equipment for speedy processing of information were needed by defense plants, shipyards, and the services themselves to keep men and materials moving.
1946-1956: Revenue grows to more than $43 million and company goes public.
1960s: Business forms industry growth due to automotive industry and development of computers and optical scanners, sales hit $107.9 million.
1980-1990:Revenue grows to more than $700 million, but when recession hits it causes profits to decrease 50 percent at company.
1990: Company closes plants and lays off 5 percent of its employees.
2001: Company lays off 2,400 workers, or 28 percent of its work force of 8,700.
2003: The company closes plants and eliminates 500 jobs.
2008: Joseph Morgan Jr. is named CEO of company.
2013: Company acquires WorkflowOne in a $218 million deal.
2014: Revenues in first three quarters of 2014 reach $673.2 million.
March 4: Company de-listed from the New York Stock Exchange.
March 12: Company files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and agrees to be sold to a private investment firm.
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