Company Profile
Handy Wacks Corporation was founded on the 8th day of July 1929. It was operated out of a facility on the Northwest side of Grand Rapids, Michigan. Daniel W. Atkinson, one of the original stockholders, acquired the sole ownership of the company's assets in September of 1932 and directed the company operations until his death in 1934. Daniel Atkinson's daughter, Lou A. Keller, joined the company as Office Manager and held the company's ownership along with her siblings, Pearl Burtch and Walter Atkinson, upon Daniel's death. Handy Wacks physically shifted its operations to Sparta, Michigan, in 1936.