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- Fleer abstract "The Fleer Corporation, founded by Frank H. Fleer in 1885, was the first company to successfully manufacture bubblegum; it remained a family-owned enterprise until 1989.Fleer originally developed a bubblegum formulation called Blibber-Blubber in 1906. However, while this gum was capable of being blown into bubbles, in other respects it was vastly inferior to regular chewing gum, and Blibber-Blubber was never marketed to the public. In 1928, Fleer employee Walter Diemer improved the Blibber-Blubber formulation to produce the first commercially successful bubblegum, Dubble Bubble. Its pink color set a tradition for nearly all bubble gums to follow.Fleer became known as a maker of sports cards, and has also produced some non-sports trading cards. In 1995, Fleer acquired the trading card company SkyBox International and, over Thanksgiving vacation shuttered its Philadelphia plant (where Dubble Bubble was made for 67 years). In 1998, 70-year-old Dubble Bubble was acquired by Canadian company Concord Confections; Concord, in turn, was acquired by Chicago-based Tootsie Roll Industries in 2004.In late May 2005, news circulated that Fleer was suspending its trading card operations immediately. By early July, in a move similar to declaring bankruptcy, the company began to liquidate its assets to repay creditors. The move included the auction of the Fleer trade name, as well as other holdings. Competitor Upper Deck won the Fleer name, as well as their die cast toy business, at a price of $6.1 million. Just one year earlier, Upper Deck tendered an offer of $25 million, which was rejected by Fleer based on the hope that the sports card market would turn in a direction more favorable to their licenses and target collector demographic. One negative aspect associated with Fleer's Assignment for the Benefit of Creditors is that many sports card collectors now own redemption cards for autographs and memorabilia that may not be able to be redeemed; those fears were somewhat quenched in early 2006 when random memorabilia cards were mailed to the aforementioned collectors.".
- Fleer extinctionDate "2005-05-31".
- Fleer extinctionYear "2005".
- Fleer foundedBy Frank_H._Fleer.
- Fleer foundingYear "1885".
- Fleer genre Privately_held_company.
- Fleer locationCity Pennsylvania.
- Fleer locationCity Philadelphia.
- Fleer thumbnail Fleer_Logo.svg?width=300.
- Fleer wikiPageID "399700".
- Fleer wikiPageLength "16757".
- Fleer wikiPageOutDegree "66".
- Fleer wikiPageRevisionID "704523732".
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink 1994–95_Major_League_Baseball_strike.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Alex_Grass.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink American_Football_League.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink American_football.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Bankruptcy.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Baseball.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Baseball_card.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Basketball.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Billy_Ripken.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Blibber-Blubber.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Boston_Red_Sox.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Bubble_gum.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Category:Chewing_gum.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Category:Companies_based_in_Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Category:Companies_established_in_1885.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Category:Culture_of_Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Category:Food_production_companies_of_the_United_States.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Category:Trading_card_companies.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Charles_Barkley.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Chewing_gum.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Contract.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Correction_fluid.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Donruss.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Dubble_Bubble.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Federal_Trade_Commission.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Fleer_Greats_of_the_Game.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Fleer_Tradition.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Fleer_Ultra.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Frank_H._Fleer.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Google.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Hockey.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Internet.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Jimmy_Piersall.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Kirby_Puckett.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink License.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Major_League_Baseball_Players_Association.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Marvel_Entertainment.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Maury_Wills.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Michael_Jordan.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Monopoly.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink NBA_lockout.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink National_Football_League.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Non-sports_trading_card.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Pennsylvania.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Philadelphia.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Philadelphia_Gum.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Privately_held_company.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Profanity.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Right_of_first_refusal.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Roger_Clemens.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink SkyBox_International.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Skybox_Autographics.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Stolen_base.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Ted_Williams.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Tootsie_Roll_Industries.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Topps.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Trade_union.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Trading_card.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Upper_Deck_Company.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink Walter_Diemer.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLink File:Fleer_Logo.svg.
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fleer Baseball Card Gum Company".
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fleer Chewing Gum Company".
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fleer Corporation".
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fleer Entertainment".
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fleer Trading Cards".
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLinkText "Fleer".
- Fleer wikiPageWikiLinkText "Frank H. Fleer Company".
- Fleer defunct "2005-05-31".
- Fleer founder "Frank H. Fleer".
- Fleer genre "Private".
- Fleer locationCity "Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.".
- Fleer logo "150".
- Fleer name "Fleer/Skybox International LP".
- Fleer wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Baseball_year.
- Fleer wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:End_date.
- Fleer wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_company.
- Fleer wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Reflist.
- Fleer wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Sports_cards.
- Fleer wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Start_date.
- Fleer subject Category:Chewing_gum.
- Fleer subject Category:Companies_based_in_Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania.
- Fleer subject Category:Companies_established_in_1885.
- Fleer subject Category:Culture_of_Philadelphia,_Pennsylvania.
- Fleer subject Category:Food_production_companies_of_the_United_States.
- Fleer subject Category:Trading_card_companies.
- Fleer hypernym Company.