Anchor Hocking Company is a

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. The Hocking Glass Company was founded in 1905 by Isaac Jacob (Ike) Collins in

Lancaster, Ohio Lancaster ( ) is a city in Fairfield County, Ohio, in the south-central part of the state. As of the 2020 census, the city population was 40,552. The city is near the Hocking River, about southeast of Columbus and southwest of Zanesville. It is ...

, and named after the

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. That company merged with the Anchor Cap and Closure Corporation in 1937. From 1937 to 1983, the company operated the oldest glass-manufacturing facility in the United States, established in 1863, in

Salem, New Jersey Salem is a city in Salem County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, the city's population was 5,146,

. Anchor Hocking's wine and spirit bottles are crafted at a factory in

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. It also had facilities in

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, and

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. In 1987, the Newell Company acquired Anchor Hocking Corporation. The company was the sponsor of the

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''. It was also slated to sponsor television's first

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, '' The Don Hornsby Show'', before Hornsby suddenly died shortly before its debut. In 2012, then-owner Monomoy merged Anchor Hocking with

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and created EveryWare Global. In January 2014, EveryWare Global announced its plans to close its regional office and the Oneida outlet store, both in Sherrill, New York, with the process starting in April. The original Oneida outlet store in Sherrill, New York, was closed April 26, 2014. EveryWare Global filed for bankruptcy in 2015. EveryWare Global was renamed The Oneida Group in 2017. Anchor Hocking and their headquarters in Lancaster, Ohio, are a focus of Brian Alexander's February 2017 book ''Glass House''.

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Most of the original Anchor Hocking glass container plants then operating were "spun off” in 1983 to form the newly created Anchor Glass Container Corporation, with headquarters in Tampa, Florida. A wide variety of glass containers for many types of foods, beverages, and other products was produced. AGCC filed for bankruptcy in 2011. Their "stylized anchor" trademark logo, which consists of two angular letter, G oriented back-to-back (or “mirrored” ) was registered with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on February 19, 1985. Anchor Glass Container has manufacturing facilities in

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;

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;

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;

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;

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; and

Depression glass

The company was a major producer of

Depression glass Depression glass is glassware made in the period 1929–1939, often clear or colored translucent machine-made glassware that was distributed free, or at low cost, in the United States and Canada around the time of the Great Depression. Depress ...

. The first glassware produced as Anchor Hocking Glass Company was Royal Ruby in 1939. In addition, Anchor Hocking produced Forest Green Glass and

Fire-King Fire-King is an Anchor Hocking brand of glassware similar to Pyrex. It was formerly made of low expansion borosilicate glass and ideal for oven use. Currently it is made of tempered Soda–lime glass, soda-lime-silicate glass. History Fire- ...

and Anchor Ovenware.

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Depression glass

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