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SELIGChemical Industries

1880-Simon S. Selig born in Atlanta to Sigmund and Sophie Selig. Sigmund and Sophie involved in several business ventures, including a saloon at 336 West Mitchell Street until about 1897.

1896-Simon Selig, 16 years old, begins his career as a sales representative of West Chemical Corporation (New York). He sells soaps, disinfectants, and other household products out of a basket on his bicycle, which he rides through the residential areas on either side of Marietta Street west of downtown. First use of the name \"The Selig Company\". 1897-The Selig Company begins to grow rapidly and opens its first office, at 95 Garnett Street, Atlanta.

1902-Simon Selig begins manufacturing his own products under the Selig Company name for direct sale by its agents, but continues to represent West Chemical and its product line as well.

1906-The Selig Company moves its office to 48 Mitchell Street, Atlanta.

1910-The Selig Company moves its offices to 26 South Forsyth Street, Atlanta.

1915-The Selig Company builds a new office at 336-338 Marietta Street (this building and its 1927 addition comprise the building now listed as 342 Marietta Street). The company had continued to manufacture more and more of its products, which eventually led to the development of the company\'s own complete product line under the Selig brand name. By this time, the company has expanded its sales territory outside Atlanta throughout the southeastern U.S. as far west as Texas.

1915-1927-The company builds a large manufacturing facility in two buildings across Marietta Street from the new office, in the block bounded by Luckie, Latimer, Marietta, and Foundry Streets. The company\'s product line grows to include more sanitary products, insecticides, and disinfectants.

1927-The company doubles its office space on Marietta Street by completing an expansion addition to the 1915 building.

1927-1943-The company continues its growth despite the Depression and war years. In 1943, while on vacation in Hot springs, Arkansas, Simon Selig dies of a heart attack at age 64. He is succeeded as president of The Selig Company by his brother, Albert.

1955-Albert Selig dies and Simon S. Selig, Jr. is named president of the company.

1965-Due to the rapid expansion of the company\'s sales force in the years since the Second World War, as well as the need to consolidate its employees in a single and larger facility, the company moves from Marietta Street to new facilities on Selig Drive off Fulton Industrial Boulevard. The Marietta Street property is sold to the Pioneer Neon Supply Company, owned by Ira Weiss.

1968-The Selig Company is sold to National Service Industries (formerly National Linen Company). Simon S. Selig, Jr. resigns as president of the company and is succeeded by his first cousin, Lyons Joel (Mr. Joel, a grandson of Simon Selig Sr. and a lifelong employee of the company, remains president to this day).

1995-The Selig Chemical Company is part of the Chemical Division of National Service Industries, an Atlanta-based Fortune 500 corporation. Selig Chemical now employs over 500 people nationwide, with branches in Atlanta (its headquarters), Dallas, San Juan, New Orleans, Miami, Charlotte, and Louisville. On its own, Selig Chemical is one of the 20 largest chemical companies in the United States.

1996-Selig Chemical will celebrate its centennial. A book outlining the first hundred years of the company was published in early 1996.