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Vector Marketing & Cutco Philanthropic Endeavors

Efforts supported by the employees of Cutco Corp., Cutco Cutlery, Ka-Bar, Schilling Forge and Vector Marketing

Share Our Strength
The statistics are shocking. Each year, nearly 14 million children face hunger in the United States. Cutco executives recognized that they needed to help.

For several years, Vector Marketing, Cutco Cutlery and Cutco Corp. employees were among the foot soldiers in the battle against childhood hunger through its relationship with anti-hunger organization Share Our Strength. The company’s commitment to Share Our Strength ended in December 2006, with its support totaling over $1 million.

Cutco and Vector Marketing’s ties with Share Our Strength began in 1999 during the company’s 50th anniversary. From 1999 to 2001, the company provided $250,000 of financial and product support. In 2001, company officials committed to increasing its total commitment to $1 million of financial, product and promotional support through the end of 2006.

Product support was realized through donations to Share Our Strength’s Operation Frontline Side by Side nutrition classes held nationwide and for Taste of the Nation events nationwide.

The company also provided promotional support in many ways, including adding information in customer packages, on company Web sites, in Cutco customer catalogs and sales prospectus books for Vector Marketing.

"We believe in giving back to the communities in which we live and work, and over the years Cutco and Vector Marketing have been active supporters of a wide range of charities," James E. Stitt, Cutco president and CEO, said. "Share Our Strength, with its focus and dedication to meeting immediate demands for food and finding long-term solutions to hunger and poverty, is a perfect fit for our company and we are proud to have made a significant contribution to this worthwhile organization."

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