Unisto

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Unisto AG
Type Public
Industry Manufacturing
Founded1926, Switzerland
FounderHans Felix and Leo Stoffel [1]
Headquarters,
Area served
Europe, Americas, Africa, Far East & Asia, Australia & New Zealand
Key people
Peter Stoffel(CEO)
BrandsUnisto Manta
Unisto SealTrak, etc.
Revenue CHF 15-38 Mio [2]
Total equity CHF 1.5 Mio [2]
Number of employees
600 (2013) [3]
Website www.unisto.com

Unisto is a Swiss company that specialises in security products. It produces Unisto security seals, name badges and brand profiling products to guarantee the authenticity of a product from its manufacturing origin to its point of sale.

It was founded as Stoffel and Co. in Horn, Switzerland [4] in 1926, a small family-owned business making packaging accessories used for brand labeling and securing products. The company later became an international company with more than 600 employees [3] in factories and offices worldwide. [5]

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