The Rand Company

The Rand Company

The history of Randex Ltd. starts in 1898 when James H.Rand Sr, introduced the Visible Ledger for sale to businesses. Over the next 10 years he constantly improved the product while also expanding his markets across the United States. In 1908 James H. Rand Jr, after graduating from Harvard, joined his father’s firm, now called the Rand Corporation as sales manager.

James Rand Jr, soon became dissatisfied with the efforts made by the company in developing visible equipment, for up to this time most of the effort of the Rand Corporation had been devoted to the Visible Ledger line of products. He proposed that visible records be housed in steel cabinets, later called Kardex cabinets. This suggestion seemed too radical to the more conservative board of directors and as a result he resigned.