Dunder Mifflin History

According to co-founder Robert Dunder, the company was founded in 1949, and it was originally a supplier of plastic floor bolt covers for commodes.

According to the Dunder Mifflin official website: "Dunder Mifflin Inc. (stock symbol DMI) is a mid-cap regional paper- and office-supply distributor with an emphasis on servicing small-business clients. With a corporate office in New York City, Dunder Mifflin has branches in Albany, Utica, Scranton, Akron, Nashua, Buffalo and Rochester."

"Dunder Mifflin Incorporated provides its customers quality office and information technology products, furniture, printing values and the expertise required for making in
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For years, Dunder Mifflin was a dying company that was unable to compete with modern chains such as Staples and Office Depot. The company still used traditional salesman rather than the Internet, causing most customers to leave for the nation-wide chains, and was unable to adapt to an increasingly paperless world. Ryan Howard, a new employee of Scranton Branch, predicted the company would be obsolete by 2017. In 2007, Ryan became Vice President of Sales and began a massive restructuring of the entire company, including a new website that would help make sales more efficient. However, his website was a failure (due to an ill-advised social networking feature) and he was later arrested for fraud (he had the Scranton branch label sales they made on the phone as website sales).

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