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Fossil starts in Richardson by copying watch ads from the 1940s
1984
Richardson, Texas
Tom Kartsotis founded the company here in 1984 as Overseas Products International, after a trip to Hong Kong to look for something worth importing. The watches sold on retrospective designs lifted from magazine advertising of the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s, and from 1989 they came in a collectable tin. The company took the name Fossil from the nickname the Kartsotis brothers used for their father.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
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