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Home Interiors and Gifts was a direct sales company specializing in decorating accessories, which were sold by more than 140,000 representatives through home parties in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Puerto Rico. Highland Capital Management later owned a majority interest in the company. [1] The company is defunct since 2008.
Since then, Gorilla Glass has generated more than $20 billion in revenue for the company, and is used globally on more than 8 billion devices made by Apple and other companies.
Oldcastle glass was created through the merging of multiple glass manufacturers, including Hordis Brothers (marketed as "Arm-R-Clad"), HGP Industries, [1] United Tempering Systems, North American Glass, O&W Glass, Downey Glass, Glass Distributors of America, General Glass, Tempglass, Armourguard Glass Products, Wescan Glass Industries, Free State Glass Industries, and Oldcastle Specialty Glass.
The company name was Frederick M. Amelung and Company, and the glass works was located in Baltimore's Federal Hill neighborhood. The works is often called Federal Hill Glass Works or the Baltimore Glass Works, but was also called the Patapsco River Glass House and the Hughes Street Works because of its location. [84]
Each factory became known by a letter (e.g. Factory A of United States Glass Company). [119] Hobbs Glass Company became Factory H, and more key talent immediately left the company, including Kopp. [120] The United States was in an economic recession at the time of the formation of the glass trust. [118]
The company went bankrupt in 1963, with the Tiffin plant reorganizing as the "Tiffin Art Glass Company". [2] The other plant which survived to that point was the Glassport, Pennsylvania , plant. It was closed after a storm on August 3, 1963, which resulted in the factory's water tower collapsing through the plant roof.