Fuller Brush files for bankruptcy after ‘reboot’

2/23/2012
BLADE STAFF AND NEWS SERVICES

WILMINGTON, Del. — Fuller Brush Co., founded in 1906 and for decades known for its door-to-door salesmen, has filed for bankruptcy less than two months after saying the company had “completely rebooted itself.”

The cleaning-products maker, based in Great Bend, Kan., listed assets and debt of as much as $50 million each in Chapter 11 documents filed Tuesday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York.