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American Greetings Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and sale of greeting cards and other social expression products worldwide. It offers everyday and seasonal greeting cards, gift wrap, party goods, calendars, and stationery, as well as educational products and custom display fixtures. The company, through its subsidiary, AG Interactive, Inc., provides email greetings, personalized printable greeting cards, and other social expression products through its Web sites www.americangreetings.com, www.bluemountain.com, and www.egreetings.com; cobranded Web sites; and online services. AG Interactive also distributes ringtones for cellular telephones, graphics, games, alerts, and other social messaging products and applications to mobile devices. American Greetings’ distributes its products through mass merchandisers, chain drug stores, and supermarkets, as well as card and gift shops, department stores, military post exchanges, variety stores, and combo stores. The company also sells its products to third-party distributors. As of November 24, 2006, it owned and operated 496 card and gift retail stores in the United States and Canada. American Greetings was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio.
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