Who owns which tool brands?

[vssjim]

Miller Tool was part of the Kent Moore deal when OTC took over the whole lot of Kent Moore Robinair etc and they are not part of Snap On but were part of SPX Service Solutions which Bosch bought and now is called Bosch Service Solutions

 

[Justanoldguy]

is that a customer service number of someone who told you that?

Off topic but kind of funny.
Your profile Quote " This forum looks pretty cool, just found it a few minutes ago." ..
You have racked a heap of posts in just a few minutes..

 

[HaroRider]

Is Husky under the Stanley name? I dont see Husky at all on the list.

 

[jakemac]

As far as I know, Husky is a brand name owned by Home Depot. Like Craftsman belongs to Sears and Kobalt belongs to Lowes. All of them contract the manufacturing out to other companies to built under their label. It may be Stanley, or it may be someone else.

 

[Stuey]

Is Husky under the Stanley name? I dont see Husky at all on the list.

Stanley does not own Husky. Husky is Home Depot's private label brand, with numerous OEM relationships.

 

[WWIIjeep]

Stanley does not own Husky. Husky is Home Depot's private label brand, with numerous OEM relationships.

Stanley did own Husky for a while in the 1980s and 90s, which is probably where some of the confusion about current ownership (Home Depot) comes from.

Excellent list, Stuey. It should be required reading for everyone who buys new tools today.

A couple of other things perhaps worth considering:

1. There's a difference between the orange-underlined Ridgid branded products and the red-underlined Ridgid branded products. Same owner (Emerson) but really two different product lines. The red-underlined Ridgid tools are direct descendants of the historically ultra high quality professional plumbing tools. The orange-underlined Ridgid tools are not necessarily all true professional-quality tools.

2. Great Neck and Millers Falls brands. I believe both names are now owned by Hangzhou Great Star Industrial Co., Ltd. (China). Perhaps worth mentioning because at one time, both were well-known American brands. Great Neck was never particularly-noted for high-quality products, but Millers Falls was, and the current line of Millers Falls branded products pales in comparison to older Millers Falls branded products.

 

[WWIIjeep]

Where's Ingersoll Rand fit into that matrix?

THey were owned by Textron at one point.

I don't think so.

Ingersoll-Rand is a much larger company than Textron.

Herbert L. Henkel, the CEO of Textron for a brief period in the 1990s, left Textron in 1998 to become the CEO of Ingersoll-Rand, but there was no other connection between the two companies.