Nottingham Spirk
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
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| Industry | Product Design |
| Founded 📆 | |
| Founder 👔 | John Nottingham, John Spirk |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | Nottingham Spirk Innovation Center, , United States |
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| Divisions | NS Innovation Fund Management |
| 🌐 Website | www |
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Nottingham Spirk is an open innovation and product development firm established in 1972 by John Nottingham and John Spirk in Cleveland, Ohio. The firm currently has over 70 employees that work in disciplines such as: market strategy, product invention, design and engineering, user research, rapid prototyping, structural packaging, branding, interactive design, quality control and global sourcing.[1] They partner with companies in the consumer, medical,[2] retail, and business-to-business industries.
Nottingham Spirk uses vertical innovation in its facility known as the Nottingham Spirk Innovation Center where the entire product development cycle from focus group facilitation to product design and mechanical engineering is executed.[3]
Activities[edit]
Nottingham Spirk products range from consumer appliances, to household items, and medical devices.[1] Some of the company’s 900 patents[1] include: the Crest SpinBrush,[4] Swiffer SweeperVac [5] Phillips Eclipse MRI scanner, Scott’s Snap Lawn Spreader, Lubrizol’s Oil Filter,[1] the line of Dirt Devil products,[6] the Unilever Axe Bullet,[7] CardioInsight EC Imaging Vest, Purell Branding,[8] and the Sherwin Williams Dutch Boy Twist & Pour paint can.[5]
Nottingham Spirk has been featured in Fortune magazine, The New York Times, and Forbes. The firm has won numerous awards including: CLIO, IDEA, and The Dupont Packaging Award.[1]
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References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 "Business Innovation & Product Design Firm – Nottingham Spirk". Nottingham Spirk. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
- ↑ "To get jobs, areas develop industry hubs in emerging fields - USATODAY.com". Retrieved 10 July 2017.
- ↑ writer, By Anne Fisher, Fortune senior. "Designers at Nottingham-Spirk invent for companies like GE – June 11, 2007". money.cnn.com. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
- ↑ "BW Online – August 1, 2002 – Why P&G's Smile Is So Bright". Retrieved 10 July 2017.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "Community Leader – Cleveland Magazine". ibmag.com. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
- ↑ "Nottingham Spirk Innovation Center". 13 May 2013. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
- ↑ http://www.pdesigni.com/news/show/2175
- ↑ "If Sustainability is the New Religion, Maybe it Belongs in Church". 27 January 2009. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
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