Despite the name, Scotch tape wasn’t invented by the Scottish. It was invented by a college dropout named Richard Drew from Minnesota who worked for a small sandpaper company founded in 1902 called ...

Bill McColl has 25+ years of experience as a senior producer and writer for TV, radio, and digital media leading teams of anchors, reporters, and editors in creating news broadcasts, covering some of ...

NEW YORKNEW YORK — The maker of Post-Its and Scotch Tape has named a new chief executive. With his employment contract set to expire this month, 3M Co. announced Wednesday that CEO George Buckley will ...

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It’s a very fuzzy word. That word is digital. So says Shaun Braun, Senior Vice President of Digital Transformation at 3M, a firm best known inevitably for PostIt notes and Scotch Tape, but which in ...

Austin, Texas-based 3M Electrical Markets Division is celebrating its Scotch vinyl electrical tapes with a new promotion in conjunction with NASCAR. Tape containers decorated with 1940s pin-up girl ...

Minnesota-based manufacturing company 3M says plans to close its North Austin manufacturing plant by the end of 2019, a move that will affect about 120 employees. 3M said the 220,000-square foot ...

3M (NYSE: MMM) is a company that most people know about but few fully understand. Going well beyond its most visible products like Post-It Notes and Scotch tape, 3M has its fingers in a huge number of ...

3M (NYSE:MMM) has inked a deal to buy the office and consumer products business of Avery Dennison (NYSE:AVY) for $550 million in cash, adding Hi-Liters and others educational products to the ...

NEW YORK -- The maker of Post-Its and Scotch Tape has named a new chief executive. With his employment contract set to expire this month, 3M Co. announced Wednesday that CEO George Buckley will retire ...