Clauss Cutlery Company opener. Clauss Cutlery Company Clauss Cutlery is a cutlery brand owned by the Acme United Corporation since 2004. It was founded as Elyria Shear Works in 1877 by John and Henrie Clauss in Elyria, Ohio. At one time the company was the largest manufacturer of scissors and shears in the world. The two brothers John and Henrie Clauss, of German origin, started Elyria Shear Works from a one-room building in Elyria, Ohio. Together with five employees, they began manufacturing scissors, shears, straight razors and serrated kitchen knives. In the early 1880s, with his shear business prospering, John Clauss planned a
Stephen Messer (entrepreneur) these patents, which covered a cookie-less way of tracking commission information, was covered in the NY Times. In 2008, Messer co-founded Cross Commerce Media with his sister Heidi Messer and Tad Martin. He currently serves on its board of directors as the company's Vice Chairman. In 2014, Messer was awarded three patents in conjunction with Collective[i]'s data analytics network. He is noted as a co-inventor for patent #8,713,076 and patent #8,825,716, "Providing a Multi-Tenant Knowledge Network", as well as patent #8,825,618, "Methods and Systems for Enhanced Data Unification, Access, and Analysis". Messer is also co-founder of World Evolved, a platform