Company type | Subsidiary |
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Industry | Personal care |
Founded | January 1906 | (as Personna American Safety Razor Company)
Headquarters | Verona, Virginia, U.S. |
Products | Razor, Shave brush |
Parent | Edgewell Personal Care |
Website | Personna |
American Safety Razor Company is a personal care brand founded in 1906 by a merger of the Gem Cutlery Company and Ever-Ready. It is a principal competitor to Gillette, with which it shared a name from 1901 to 1904, when the latter renamed for its founder, King C. Gillette.[1] It produces a range of personal care, medical and industrial blades with manufacturing operations in the Czech Republic, Germany, Israel, Mexico and the United States.[2]