BNET Industries

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$212.8M
  • Private
  • US
Dow Jones Description

Aristotle wisely targets a stable market. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Stamford, CT, Aristotle Corporation (NASDAQ-CM: ARTL) manufactures and distributes a range of educational and other products. The company makes over 80,000 items which it sells through distributors, websites, and 45 catalogs. Its brands include Hubbard Scientific, Scott Resources, Spectrum Educational Supplies, Haan Crafts, To-Sew, CPR Prompt, and others. It also offers agricultural hand tools and equipment, nursing home supplies, and sampling bags and containers for the food industry. The company had 2005 revenue of about $188.8 million and employs about 850 people. In May 2006, it received a proposal from Geneve Corporation to merge.

Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
E Dward N Etter
Number of Employees 900
Contact Information

96 Cummings Point Rd

Stamford, Connecticut 06902

www.aristotleco...

(203) 358-8000

NAICS Code Medical, Dental, and Hospital Equipment and Supplies Merchant Wholesalers: 423450

Recent Events

  • The Aristotle Corporation Announces 2009 Third Quarter and Nine Month Results

    11/05/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

  • The Aristotle Corporation Announces 2009 Second Quarter and Six Month Results

    8/07/09 - Financial Announcement - View Story

News & Analysis

aristotle corp. - All News and Analysis

Decision Makers

Name (plus bio) Position
Steven B. Lapin President
Dean T. Johnson Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
W. Phillip Niemeyer President, Nasco Division & Executive Vice President
Brian Schlier Vice President
H. William Smith V.P., General. Counsel & Secretary
William J. Dallapiazza Controller
Donald T. Netter Director
Edward Netter Director
John L. Lahey Director
Roy T.K. Thung Director

Board of Directors

Name (plus bio) Position
E Dward N Etter Chairman, Chief Executive Officer
James G. Tatum Chairperson
Ira R. Harkavy Board of Directors
John A. Whritner Board of Directors
John J. Crawford Board of Directors

Organization Position Status
Aristotle Corporation Chairman, Chief Executive Officer Current

Organization Position Status
Geneve Corporation President Current
Southern Investors Corp President Current
Aristotle Corporation President Current
Honor Capital Corp. President Current
Aristotle Corporation Chief Operating Officer Current
Aristotle Corporation Board of Directors Current
Independence Holding Company Vice Chairman Current
Geneve Corporation Director Current
First International Reinsurance Company President Former
Geneve Corporation Chief Operating Officer Former
Independence Holding Company Board of Directors Former

DEAN T. JOHNSON has been a Senior Vice President of Aristotle since March 2008, prior to which he was Vice President of Aristotle from June 2003. Mr. Johnson has been Chief Financial Officer of Aristotle since October 2002. For more that the five years prior to the merger of Aristotle and Nasco International, Inc., Mr. Johnson was Chief Financial Officer of Nasco.

Organization Position Status
Aristotle Corporation Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer Current

W. PHILLIP NIEMEYER has been the President-Nasco Division of Aristotle since September 2002. Mr. Niemeyer has been the Executive Vice President of Aristotle since March 2008, prior to which he had been the Vice President-Production Coordination of Aristotle since the merger of Aristotle and Nasco International, Inc. ("Nasco") on June 17, 2002. Mr. Niemeyer has held various positions with Nasco for over 30 years.

Organization Position Status
Aristotle Corporation President, Nasco Division & Executive Vice President Current
Aristotle Corporation Board of Directors Current
Aristotle Corporation President, Nasco Division Former
Aristotle Corporation Vice President, Prod. Coordinator. Former

BRIAN R. SCHLIER has been the Vice President-Taxation of Aristotle since January 2003. Mr. Schlier has been Senior Vice President-Taxation of Geneve since March 2005, prior to which for more than five years he was Vice President-Taxation of Geneve. Mr. Schlier has been the Vice President-Taxation of Independence Holding Company, a publicly held holding company engaged principally in the life and health insurance business for more than the past five years, and the Vice President-Taxation of AMIC since November 2002.

Organization Position Status
Aristotle Corporation Vice President Current
Independence Holding Company Vice President, Taxation Former

H. WILLIAM SMITH has been the Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Aristotle since July 2002. Mr. Smith has been the Vice President-Legal and Secretary of Geneve, a privately held diversified financial holding company, since July 2002. For more than five years prior to joining Aristotle and Geneve, Mr. Smith practiced law with the private law firms Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP and Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pitman LLP.

Organization Position Status
Aristotle Corporation V.P., General. Counsel & Secretary Current
Aristotle Corporation Board of Directors Current

Organization Position Status
Aristotle Corporation Controller Current

Organization Position Status
Aristotle Corporation Chairperson Current
Independence Holding Company Board of Directors Current
Aristotle Corporation Director Current

DONALD T. NETTER, for more than the past five years, has served as Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and Senior Managing Director of the managing member of the general partner of the Dolphin Limited Partnerships, investment limited partnerships. Mr. Netter has served as a Senior Vice President of Geneve Corporation, a privately-held diversified financial holding company, for more than the past five years. Donald T. Netter is the son of Edward Netter.

Organization Position Status
Aristotle Corporation Director Current

Mr. Edward Netter is Chairman of Independence Holding Company and a director of American Independence Corp. Mr. Netter is also Chairman of the Executive Committee and a director of The Aristotle Corporation, a publicly traded manufacturer and global distributor serving the education, health and agriculture markets. Mr. Netter is Chairman and CEO of Geneve Corporation, a private diversified holding company which holds a controlling interest in IHC and Aristotle. In 1971, Mr. Netter, a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, organized the predecessor company to Geneve after serving as an Executive Officer, Director and principal of the investment firm of CBWL-Hayden Stone. Mr. Netter is a trustee of Thanks to Scandinavia, an organization which provides scholarships to international students, is a member of the advisory committee of North General Hospital in New York City, and serves on the National Advisory Board of The Center for Community Partnerships at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Netter is engaged in a number of other philanthropic activities relating to science, education and human services. In 2006, Mr. Netter was elected to the Business Leader Hall of Fame at Quinnipiac University. Mr. Netter and his wife, Barbara, founded Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy, Inc. in 2001. ACGT facilitates funding for high-potential research into gene therapy, in hopes of realizing an effective alternative to the current treatment and management of cancer

Organization Position Status
Geneve Corporation CEO Current
Thanks to Scandinavia Co Trustee Current
University of Pennsylvania Trustee Current
Geneve Corporation Chairman Current
Independence Holding Company Chairman Current
American Independence Corporation Board of Directors Current
Thanks to Scandinavia Co Board of Directors Current
Aristotle Corporation Director Current
Geneve Corporation Executive Officer Former

Ira A. Harkavy has been an Associate Vice President at the University of Pennsylvania since 1996, and Director, Center for Community Partnerships (“CCP”) at the University of Pennsylvania since CCP’s inception in 1992. CCP and its school and community partners have created university assisted community schools that educate children, their families and the broader community through school-day curriculum based problem solving learning, and after school and other programs that advance learning, development and an array of other needs and interests of the wider community.

Organization Position Status
Aristotle Corporation Board of Directors Current

JOHN A. WHRITNER is a retired school administrator. Dr. Whritner spent more than forty years in the education field including as a teacher and school administrator, and as the Superintendent of Schools in East Lyme, Connecticut, Grosse Pointe, Michigan, and Greenwich, Connecticut. For more than five years following his retirement as a school administrator, Dr. Whritner was a Senior Associate with Hazard, Young, Attea & Associates, a school superintendent search firm. Dr. Whritner was a director of Nasco International, Inc. from April 1998 until the merger of the Aristotle and Nasco on June 17, 2002.

Organization Position Status
Aristotle Corporation Board of Directors Current

Organization Position Status
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven Chair, Investment Committee, Member, Audit and Executive Committees Current
Albertus Magnus College Board of Directors Current
Webster Financial Corporation Board of Directors Current
Aristotle Corporation Board of Directors Current

Organization Position Status
Quinnipiac University President Current
Yale-New Haven Hospital Director Current
UIL Holdings Corporation Board of Directors Current
The United Illuminating Company Director Current
Aristotle Corporation Director Current
Independence Holding Company Board of Directors Current
Wqun President Current
University of Dayton Master's Degrees In Philosophy Former
Columbia University Master's Degree In Higher Education Administration Former
University of Dayton Bachelor's Former
Columbia University Bachelor's Former

Organization Position Status
American Independence Insurance Company Chief Executive Officer Current
American Independence Corporation Chief Executive Officer Current
American Independence Corporation President Current
Independence Holding Company Board of Directors Current
Aristotle Corporation Director Current
American Independence Corporation Board of Directors Current
Independence Holding Company President & CEO Former
American Independence Corporation Principal Executive Officer Former
New York University M.B.A. Former

Executive News

  • The Aristotle Corporation Announces 2009 Second Quarter and Six Month Results

    Stockwatch - 8/07/09 - View Story

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