Libman Company

The Libman Company started in 1896 with one mission: to make the finest, most durable wire-wound corn brooms. William Libman left Lithuania for the United States in the 1890s. He landed in Chicago and started life in the New World by peddling sundries from a pushcart, selling everything from brooms to clothes-pins. The old-fashioned corn broom was always a top seller. Seeing a need and an opportunity, the company opened a corn broom factory on Kinzie Street in Chicago, the commercial heart of the Midwestern broom corn market.

Today, Libman is 1.1 million square foot facility still located in central Illinois with the fourth generation of Libmans who have come on board. They are as committed as their predecessors to providing high-quality, American-made cleaning products including mops, brushes, cleaning tools, and of course, brooms.