
Companies like TTI, Apex Tool Group, ITW, Great Star Tools, and others also enjoy adding to their numbers.įinally, if we missed any tool mergers or acquisitions, please leave a comment below. By far, Stanley Black & Decker demonstrates the largest buyout pattern. While you may have thought you knew who owned all those power tool manufacturers, consolidation has changed the playing field.

In other scenarios, tools are “offered” to a retailer and then manufactured in bulk upon acceptance of a buyer’s order. That means the tools get specified by the store but executed by another manufacturer. Note that many (if not all) of the brands below represent ODM or OEM solutions. We can’t leave out the popular house brands available at those big-box retailers and home improvement warehouses. In either case, it’s pretty impressive the market share each of these companies enjoys! Who Makes House Brands at Big Box Stores? However, considering Makita announced it would stop making gas products in 2022, the Dolmar acquisition now seems less significant. Makita, on the other hand, did acquire the Dolmar brand in 1991, bolstering its already-impressive line of outdoor power equipment tools. Hilti doesn’t have any subsidiary companies underneath them or a parent company over them. Hilti and Makita are just Hilti and Makita. Brands under the Harbor Freight store include: We wish we could give a definitive answer, but Harbor Freight has remained tightlipped as to its power tool manufacturing partners. Powerplus is a division of the European company Varo with headquarters in Belgium. Not to be outdone, others have suggested Powerplus as the manufacturer behind the Drill Master, Warrior, Bauer, and Hercules lines of tools. In bullet point format, its subsidiaries include: TTS is truly behind the scenes as it doesn’t really have appear to have its own website (at least not in the US) or an official logo. KGīased in Wendlingen, Germany, TTS or Tooltechnic Systems owns Festool (electric and pneumatic tools), Tanos (not to be confused with the guy who destroyed half the universe), Narex, Sawstop, and now Shaper Tools. More Smaller Power Tool Manufacturers and Companies TTS Tooltechnic Systems AG & Co. This company has acquired a considerable number of well-known tool brands over the past several years, including: Their brands include manufacturers of hand tools, electric tools, pneumatic fastening tools, laser measuring tools, laser radar, tool cabinets, industrial storage cabinets, industrial vacuum cleaners, and more. Who Owns Milwaukee Tools? Techtronic Industries Co Ltd (TTI)Įstablished in 1993, Hangzhou Greatstar Technology Co., Ltd. If you want to see an exhaustive list of SBD subsidiaries, click here. Infastech (rolled into Stanley Engineered Fastening brand).

As of 2022, the company maintains a $16.9 billion business. In late 2021, SBD completed its acquisition of MTD Holdings and Excel Industries, making it a global leader in the outdoor power equipment market. In 2010, it merged with another company that started in 1910-Black and Decker. Dating back to 1843 with a man named Frederick Stanley, the company quickly formed its roots.

Stanley Black & Decker (SBD) turned heads when it bought Craftsman Tools in 2017 after Sears closed 235 stores in 2015.
