Colson Caster History

In 1885 George Worthington, William Fay, and Fred Colson formed "The Worthington Company" in Elyria, Ohio. They made tricycles, invalid chairs, and wheel chairs. In 1910 Fred Colson (Secretary Treasurer of Worthington) purchased the company and changed the name to ..."The Colson Company". He expanded product line to include hospital wheeled equipment & industrial material handling equipment.

In 1953, lawyer/business man Jay Pritzker & his 26 year old brother Bob, an engineer, bought Colson and eventually moved the manufacturing and management offices to Jonesboro, Arkansas. In 1964 Colson combined with The Marmon/Herrington Company, successor to the Marmon Motor Car Company, to form the Marmon Group. The Marmon Group of companies is an international association of autonomous manufacturing and service companies with collective sales of over $6 billion.

The next few decades marked worldwide growth of manufacturing facilities, market share and capabilities for Colson Caster Corporation. Finally in 2002, Bob Pritzker purchased a majority interest in all of the worldwide caster companies that were member companies of The Marmon Group. He named the new company Colson Associates, Inc.