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1725 slough avenue scranton pa Continue Visit us at Scranton Business Park, located at 1725 Slough Ave Scranton, PA 18506-7427Dunder Mifflin Phone: (570) 904-5026Email: Email protected Call us or stop by at any time, we aim to serve all your paper requests within 24 hours during business hours. We are open from 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday. Fictional Paper Company from the American TV series The Office Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, Inc.SeriesThe Office (USA) Founded1949CaicionHeadquarters:New YorkRegional Branches:Akron Albany (closed) Binghamton (closed) Buffalo (closed) Camden (closed) NashuapittsPitfield (closed) RochesterSkranton OneStemford (closed) Closed) SyracuseOuticaOnkers (closed) Owner Commonly traded on the New York Stock Exchange Exchange (seasons 1-6)Sabre (seasons 6-8)David Wallace (season 9)Key peopleRobert Dunder (co-founder)Robert Mifflin (co-founder)Alan Brand (CEO)David Wallace (CFO/CEO/owner) North East Sales)Ryan Howard (former Vice President, North East Sales) Charles Miner (Vice President, North East Sales)Michael Scott (regional manager)Robert California (former CEO)Andrew Bernard (former regional manager)Dwight Kurt Schrute (former assistant regional manager/regional manager)Jim Halpert (co-regional manager, assistant regional manager)Karen Filippelli (regional manager, Dunder Mifflin Utica)Joshua Porter , Dunder Mifflin Stamford)SloganLimitless Paper in Paperless WorldWebsite Inc. Office DepotPrince Family Paper (closed) Michael Scott Paper Company (purchased) Big Red Paper CompanyOsprey Paper Dunder Mifflin Paper Company, Inc. - fictional paper sales company shown in the American television series The Office. It is similar to Wernham Hogg's in the British original series, and Papier Jennings and Cogirep in the French Canadian and French adaptations, respectively. Initially, the company was completely fictitious, but in the end, the brand was used to sell products in Staples and other office outlets. Two websites were created to support a fictional company, one featuring a public website, and one had to look like an intranet corporation. NBC sold branded goods on its NBC Universal Store website. Its logo was widely displayed in several locations in downtown Scranton, Pennsylvania, where the show is set. Scranton has been linked internationally with Dunder Mifflin due to the show's international coverage. In a 2008 St. Patrick's Day speech in the suburb of Dixon City, the then-Taoiseach, or Irish Prime Minister, Bertie Ahern, made reference to a fictional branch of the city. Review of the fourth season of the episode, Dunder Mifflin Infinity, said the company was in 1949, Robert Dunder (John Ingle) and Robert Mifflin, originally for sale of brackets for use in construction. The episode of the fifth season of The Picnic Company said that the co-founders met during a tour of Dartmouth College. The U.S. News and World Report compares it to many real companies in its size range: It faces an increasingly competitive market. Like many smaller players, it just can't compete with the low prices charged to big boxes of rivals like Staples, OfficeMax and Office Depot, and it seems to be constantly bleeding corporate customers who focus on cutting costs themselves. The show's creators share this assessment: It's basically Staples, just not as big, says co-producer Kent Sbornak, like some of those companies. Since Dunder Mifflin can be seen among our competitors, says Chuck Rubin, Office Depot executive, I think Michael Scott is actually the perfect person to run his Scranton office. The Dunder Mifflin logo on display at Scranton's Mall at Steamtown, often mentioned in the exhibition, was depicted as new York-based, with branches in small northeastern cities. The episodes are set in the branches of Scranton, but other branches have been mentioned and seen. Currently closed at Stamford, Connecticut, the branch was spotted when Jim Halpert (John Krasinski) moved there during the first half of the third season. Another episode, Branch Wars, gave viewers a brief overview of a branch of Utica, one of several believed to be in upstate New York. He said the city was on the short list where the show was based, with some of its writers having ties to Central New York, and that they were always intended, at least the branch would be located there, for phonetics reasons. Duck was such a different name than Scranton, says Sbornak. But also, we did a little research and thought that our kind of business could survive in Otic. The Buffalo branch was mentioned in several episodes, and the Rochester office was also mentioned in an episode called Lecture Circuit. Dunder Mifflin also lists a branch of Yonkers. Albany is another mentioned New York place that in a remote scene in Stress Relief, as it turned out, has closed. He also said that there are branches in other states, including: Akron, Ohio; Camden, New Jersey; and Nashua, New Hampshire. Company Picnic announced that Camden and Yonkers branches had closed and that the Buffalo branch was about to close. The Boys and Girls, Pittsfield, Massachusetts branch was mentioned until Ian closed it when their warehouse workers traded in. The Turf War episode focuses on the closure of the Binghamton branch, and as representatives of the Syracuse branch compete with Scranton employees for Binghamton's old customers. Business writer Megan Barnett pointed out parallels between Dunder Mifflin and the real-life W.B. Mason Paper Company, based near Boston, in Brockton, Utah Similarly, the regional focus, serving corporate and new england and the Mid-Atlantic states. Like Dunder Mifflin, its original product line (rubber brand) was something other than paper, and it faces stiff competition from national and international chains. He also has a branch in Stamford but Mason remains open. In 2009, he was involved in an accounting scandal that resulted in corporate clients paying $545,000, just as Donald Mifflin had to deal with the arrest of Ryan Howard for fraud a year earlier. Dander Mifflin also bears a strong resemblance to Alling and Cory, a mid-size Northeast American printing paper, business products and packaging company. Alling and Cory had branches in Scranton, Akron (closed), Buffalo, Otic, Syracuse, Albany and Rochester, as well as several other cities including Marlton, New Jersey (10 miles from Camden). Alling and Cory were organized in three regions, as well as appointed regional managers. Most of Alling and Cory's offices were shared with the warehouse, including Pittsburgh, a branch briefly managed (in 1992) by Thomas Scott, a Western regional manager (former seller). Like Dunder Mifflin, Allin and Corey faced strong competition from large suppliers and were bought by another company. (Union Camp Corp., 1998). The image of the company's corporate culture is clearly a dysfunctional top-down management style being a major source of tension on the show, notes Chicago writer Ramsin Canon. Corporate headquarters rejects the television advertising created by Michael, as he, in turn, insisted on his own ideas for advertising and ignored his employees. (quote necessary) Ryan Howard (BJ Novak), who started as a temporary, becomes Michael's new boss because he is M.B.A., despite never selling paper or paper. Michael, in turn, treats his employees the same way. The portrayal of dysfunctional corporate culture has led some commentators to menting Dander Mifflin to the creator of Initech software in Mike Judge's cult comedy Office Space and the unnamed company that features Dilbert's comic book. The tower of the Pennsylvania newspaper and the supply company, seen in the office's opening credits. Dunder Mifflin is also portrayed as struggling to meet the needs of a diverse workforce. The episodes focused on the sensitivity of training sessions and other informal efforts. Sexual harassment occurred often enough, however, that it gave its name to the episode. Employment lawyer Julie Elgar has started a blog analysis of each episode for a plot event may be an action if they occurred in real life and assess the legal bill and/or possible verdict the company will incur in the event of a lawsuit, Michael's former supervisor, Ian Levinson (Melora Hardin) did in one episode, alleging wrongful termination. Greg Daniels, the show's creator, said many of the episode's storylines are actually based on anecdotes told Sensitivity training he and other members of the show cast and crew are required to accept annually as employees of NBC, a General Electric subsidiary. The Boys and Girls episode showed that the company strongly resisted efforts to unionize its employees, right up to the closure of the branch, as many real companies do in the same situation. The locations and kits used by the Scranton branch office and warehouse were located in the production company's office in Van Nuys, California, although the show's first season used a real office. For episodes in the second season and beyond, scenes set in the parking lot used the exterior of the production company's office building. Since there were no windows on stage, writer Jennifer Celotta's office was dressed to look like Michael Scott when the script called him or someone else to look out the parking box. In the second and subsequent seasons, office interiors and exteriors are located elsewhere in Van Nuys. Annual reports and documents on the locations of unusual shareholders at the Office congress in 2007. Some viewers have speculated that the Pennsylvania paper and supply company tower, a city center scranton that appears in video footage shot by cast member John Krasinski for the show's opening credits, is the office of Dunder Mifflin. The real company, which also sells paper and office supplies, welcomed the exposure (and business growth) and has an exhibition hall on the ground floor where it sells both its products and T-shirts with the tower.