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Velcro

United Kingdom, Switzerland · Founded 1941

Velcro was founded in 1941 by George de Mestral, and is based in United Kingdom, Switzerland.

Key facts

Legal form
privately held company
Employees
3,500

About

Swiss corporation behind popular hook-and-loop fastener and its registered trademark

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In context

We hold 10 other industrial manufacturing companies founded in the 1940s. None has a closure on record yet.

Counted across this directory, from founding and closing years in public records. Medians cover only companies whose closure is recorded; a company with no closure date may have quietly ceased without the record catching it.

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