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Hallmark Cards

Hallmark Cards, Inc.
Company typePrivate
IndustryRetail, greeting card, television
Founded1907 (as Norfolk Post Card Company)
1910 (as Hall Brothers)
1928 (as Hallmark)
FounderJoyce Hall
Headquarters2501 McGee Street, ,
U.S.
Number of locations
1,245 stores (September 2023)
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
  • Donald J. Hall Jr. (executive chairman)
  • David E. Hall (executive vice chairman)
  • Mike Perry (president & CEO)
Products
  • Greeting cards
  • Gift wrap
  • Party goods
  • Giftware
  • Stationery
  • Electronic greetings
  • Keepsake ornaments
  • Media/entertainment
Brands
RevenueIncrease US$5.0 billion (2020)[1]
OwnerHall family
Number of employees
30,000 (2020)[2]
Subsidiaries
Websitehallmark.com

Hallmark Cards, Inc. is a privately held, family-owned American company based in Kansas City, Missouri. Founded in 1910 by Joyce Hall, Hallmark is one of the oldest and largest manufacturers of greeting cards in the United States.[3] In 1985, the company was awarded the National Medal of Arts.[4]

In addition to greeting cards, Hallmark also manufactures such products as party goods, gift wrap, and stationery. Hallmark acquired Binney & Smith in 1984, and would later change its name to Crayola, LLC after its well-known Crayola brand of crayons, markers and colored pencils. The company is also involved in television, having produced the long-running Hallmark Hall of Fame series since 1951, and launching the Hallmark Channel 50 years later (replacing an earlier joint venture with The Jim Henson Company, Odyssey Network).

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference HallmarkFacts was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "America's Largest Private Companies: No. 110 Hallmark Cards". Forbes. Retrieved November 24, 2020.
  3. ^ "About Hallmark". corporate.hallmark.com. Retrieved February 8, 2023.
  4. ^ "Lifetime Honors: National Medal of Arts". National Endowment for the Arts. Archived from the original on May 6, 2009.

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