Lefax
{{Short description|Personal organizer company}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = Lefax
| type = Personal organizers
| foundation = 1910
| founder = J. C. Parker
| location_city = Philadelphia, PA
| location_country = United States
| products = Personal organizers
| fate = Bought by Filofax, used as a brand for several years, then phased out.
| successor = Filofax
}}
Lefax was a company founded in 1910 by J. C. Parker in Philadelphia that produced a range of personal organizers.{{cite web|url=http://www.kipnotes.com/Office%20Equipment.htm|title=Office Equipment - Business History of Manufacturers|publisher=kipnotes.com|accessdate=2009-05-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081106134723/http://www.kipnotes.com/Office%20Equipment.htm|archive-date=2008-11-06|url-status=dead}}{{cite web | url=http://www.filofax.co.uk/about-filofax | title=A Brief History | publisher=Filofax | work=About Filofax | accessdate=7 September 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170801025231/http://www.filofax.co.uk/about-filofax | archive-date=1 August 2017 | url-status=dead }} In its early days, the biggest customers were power plant engineers whose technical handbooks had grown too big to carry.{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/04/08/business/organizing-pays-off-at-filofax.html|title=Organizing Pays Off At Filofax|last=Lohr|first=Steve|date=1987-04-08|work=New York Times|accessdate=2009-05-26}}
In 1921, a London printer and stationery marketer, Norman & Hill Ltd., began importing the organizers, called Lefaxes. Several years later, they began to make the personal files under their Filofax brand.
The Lefax trademark was registered 5 October 1926. Its use in the engineering industries was so pervasive that some journals were published in Lefax format.{{cite journal|date=March 1947|title=Meet Your Past President... J. J. VOLLERTSEN, 1925|journal=Journal of the American Oil Chemists' Society|publisher=Springer|location=Berlin / Heidelberg|volume=24|issue=3|pages=A18|issn=0003-021X|doi=10.1007/BF02632363}}
In the 1980s Lefax was bought out by London Wood Partners, a British firm, and in 1992 the company was acquired by its rival, Filofax. The original intention was that Lefax would be Filofax's top-of-the-line range{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1993/01/03/style/foraging-the-high-art-of-organizing-your-life.html|title=FORAGING; The High Art of Organizing Your Life|last=Greenberg|first=Cara|date=1993-01-03|work=New York Times|accessdate=2009-05-26}} but the Lefax brand was eventually phased out.
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