3M's reputation for innovation, product range known to the world, the development of more than 60,000 kinds of high quality products in its hundred years history. For centuries, 3M products have deepened people's lives, from household goods to medical supplies, from the transportation, construction to various fields of business, education and electronics, communications, etc., greatly changed the way people live and work. In modern society, 50% of people every day, directly or indirectly, to 3M's products in the world. 3M Company, with offices, product sales in more than 200 countries and territories around the world in more than 60 countries and regions, the annual turnover of more than $ 21.2 billion. As one of the world's top 500 enterprises, 3M Company in 2003 by "Business Week" as one of the top 50 world's best performance in 2005 was named the world's 20 most innovative companies, and continuous Two years appeared in the "Fortune" magazine "Most Admired Companies in China." Over time, the success of the growing size of the company, but they tend to become more and more simple trademark. 3M Company and its logo is one such example. Today, the mark was designed by SiegeI & Gale, it has been used around the world for nearly a quarter of a century. 1906: The first feature is a trademark of 3M includes the company's full name, address, and a diamond-shaped diamond that is located on the trademark Chuo marked with the words "3MCo.". 1926: In the first 50 years of the history of the company's trademark in exchange for going, not much shines, not too many changes. 1937: The current combination of letters used in signs appeared in 1938: A year later, the monogram has disappeared 1942-1948 year: the monogram appeared, sometimes with a hyphen, sometimes without. 1950: one oval design introduced. Designer, design reasons have no way of knowing, but at the time it quickly gained widespread use. 1951-1960 years in the absence of a standard manual guidance on how to use the situation, oval design of the various variants of temporary prosperity. · Oval sometimes appear in physical form; sometimes, oval and completely disappeared. On 3M to celebrate his 50th anniversary logo Add a bay leaf when. 1961: 3M employs GeraldStahi & Associates design firm produced an authoritative flag - it will unify the company and its operations under the same mark. Results of the design is a symbol · 3M industrial look with its serifs a boxy earned it a nickname "plumber Gothic." 1961: With the emergence of the new logo, design units also given a manual that contains the logo of the four variants. The manual for the Dutch artist PietMondnan geometric paintings based. 1977: When the variant 3M company logo due to the need of different departments and increased design units Siegel & Gale redesigned logo to begin to solve this problem. The result is designed to simplify the extreme combination of letters 3M: serif gone, the slogan was gone. Even the gap between 3 and M are also removed. Use red color of the logo is to show a sense of power. Global sales: $ 21.2 billion overseas sales: $ 12.9 billion (61% of the total) 3M has offices in more than 60 countries and regions - there are 29 countries with the production line, 35 countries with laboratories to 3M nearly more than 200 countries worldwide customers and provide a wide range of high quality products and services worldwide has more than 60,009 thousand employees