CSS Industries acquires Simplicity Creative Group
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CSS Industries, Inc., a consumer products company, designs, manufactures, procures, distributes, and sells seasonal, gift, and craft products principally to mass market retailers in the United States and Canada. Its craft and gift consumer products include craft ribbons and bows, trims, buttons, sewing patterns, knitting needles, needle arts, kids' crafts, infant products, journals, gift card holders, all occasion boxed greeting cards, memory books, scrapbooks, stationery, stickers, and other gift and craft items, as well as floral accessories, including pot covers, foil, waxed tissue, shred, aisle runners, corsage bags, and other paper and film products. The company’s seasonal consumer products comprise Christmas products, such as packaging ribbon and bows, boxed greeting cards, gift wraps, gift bags, gift boxes, gift tags, gift card holders, tissue papers, and decorations; Valentine products consisting of classroom exchange Valentine cards and other related Valentine products; Easter products, including Easter egg dyes and related Easter seasonal products; and back-to-school products, such as teachers’ aids and other learning oriented products. CSS Industries, Inc. offers its products principally under the Simplicity, McCall’s, Vogue Patterns, Paper Magic, Berwick, Offray, Butterick, Kwik Sew, Markings, Stepping Stones, Tapestry, Seastone, Dudley’s, Eureka, Stickerfitti, Favorite Findings, La Mode, Wrights, Boye, Dimensions, fitlosophy, X&O Paper Goods, and Perler brand names. The company sells its products to mass market retailers, discount department stores, specialty chains, warehouse clubs, drug and food chains, dollar stores, office supply stores, and retail teachers’ stores, as well as to independent card, gift, and floral shops through account sales managers, sales representatives, product specialists, and a network of independent manufacturers’ representatives. The company was founded in 1923 and is headquartered in Plymouth Meeting, Pennsylvania. As of February 28, 2020, CSS Industries, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of IG Design Group Americas Inc.