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History of ACCO Engineered Systems
<br />ACCO Engineered Systems was founded in 1934 as Air Conditioning Company (A000), a proprietorship,
<br />by Ira Prentiss Fulmor at 1005 Santa Fe Street, Los Angeles. The former name of the company was chosen
<br />to indicate what the company did because few people knew about air conditioning. In 1949, the business
<br />moved from downtown Los Angeles to Glendale at its present address. In 1950, ACCO transformed from an
<br />air conditioning distributor and became an independent corporation. Kenneth D. Simon was President from
<br />1969 to 1980, Theodore M. Seidman was President from 1981 to 1989, followed by John Aversano in 1990,
<br />and Peter Narbonne in 2014. ACCO has a corporate Board of Directors made up of inside officers and outside
<br />directors with four scheduled meetings peryear, presided over by the Chairman of the Board.
<br />Over the years ACCO has grown to become a leader in the design, installation, and service of industrial,
<br />commercial, high-rise, residential, and institutional air conditioning, heating, ventilation, plumbing, process
<br />piping, and DDC control systems. ACCO's name was changed in 2002 to ACCO Engineered Systems to
<br />better reflect the many aspects of its business. A national trade publication recently ranked ACCO among the
<br />5largest heating, ventilating, and air conditioning contractors in the nation. ACCO's offices and manufacturing
<br />facilities occupy over 20 acres.
<br />The construction work areas include office buildings, biopharmaceutical, semi -conductor, medical centers and
<br />hospitals, micro -electronics, manufacturing plants, entertainment, retail, telecommunications, educational
<br />facilities, data centers, and high rise residential. ACCO has completed work in Arizona, California. Florida,
<br />Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, Oregon, Tennessee,
<br />Texas, Utah, Virginia, Washington, Washington D.C., and Mexico.
<br />ACCO's general offices are located in Glendale, CA, with other principal offices in San Leandro, Sacramento,
<br />Orange County, Azusa, San Diego, Bakersfield, Fresno, Petaluma, Redding, Vacaville, CA, Boise, ID, Las
<br />Vegas, NV, and Seattle, WA.
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