Dunder Mifflin a Paper Company

The entire show of The Office stems its basis from Dunder Mifflin a paper company. In the show, Dunder Mifflin is a paper sales company competing against big box stores such as Staples and Office Depot. Dunder Mifflin was actually a fictional company that was created in means for the show. Interesting after the show aired, Dunder Mifflin became a real paper company in the United States with the help of NBC. In the show, the main focus of the company is the Scranton branch ran by the branch manager character Michael Scott (played by Steve Carell). During the fourth season (by an episode labeled "Dunder Mifflin Infinity"), it was said that the company was founded in 1949 by Robert Dunder and Robert Mifflin. The company did not start in the paper industry, however; it started with selling raw materials for the construction field. During the fifth season (by an episode labeled "Company Picnic") we find out that the co-founders met on a tour of Dartmouth College. Dunder Mifflin is heavily segmented on sales and developing new clients. This leads to a rather funny rivalry with two salesmen Jim Halpert (played by John Krasinski) and Dwight Schrute (played by Rainn Wilson). This starts an office war of “who is the better salesmen.” What makes this rivalry so humorous is that both characters begin to start office pranks on each other that does not end until the series was completely finished. Every department of Dunder Mifflin Scranton have a diverse group employee characteristics which each character grows within throughout the series.