NYSE, ABD - Acco Brands Corp.
ACCO Brands Corporation ("ACCO Brands" or the "Company"), formerly doing
business under the name ACCO World Corporation ("ACCO World"), supplies branded
office products to the office products resale industry. On August 16, 2005,
Fortune Brands, Inc. ("Fortune Brands" or the "Parent"), then the majority
stockholder of ACCO World, completed its spin-off of the Company by means of the
pro rata distribution (the "Distribution") of all outstanding shares of ACCO
Brands held by Fortune Brands to its stockholders. In the Distribution, each
Fortune Brands stockholder received one share of ACCO Brands common stock for
every 4.255 shares of Fortune Brands common stock held of record as of the close
of business on August 9, 2005. Following the Distribution, ACCO Brands became an
independent, separately traded, publicly-held company. ...
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