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Who Owns What Tool Brands 2019 Update 2

Many popular tool brands have made big names for themselves, but are actually part of larger corporate families. Complicating things further, brands can change hands during acquisitions, mergers, and spin-offs.

To help you sort things out, we put together the following guide, identifying the most popular tool brands and the companies that own or are affiliated with them.

Please note that these are not full lists of brands each parent company owns. This list highlights construction, industrial, DIY, and other tool-related brands, with the focus mainly on hand and power tool brands.

This guide discusses the following parent companies: Stanley Black & Decker, Tectronic Industries (TTI), Bosch, Fortive, Apex Tool Group, TTS Tooltechnic Sytsems, KKR, Chervon, Emerson, Werner, Illinois Tool Works (ITW), JPW, Snap-on, Ideal, Newell Rubbermaid, Delta PEC, Kyocera, and Positec.

This information was updated and republished on June 25th, 2020. Although infrequent, brand ownership can change. Please let us know if you discover an inaccuracy in this listing.

Stanley Black & Decker (including Dewalt, Craftsman, Irwin)
TTI/Tectronic Industries (including Milwaukee, Ryobi, Empire Level, Ridgid Power Tools)
Bosch (including Bosch, Freud, Dremel)
Fortive (including Fluke, Matco)
Apex Tool Group (including Crescent, Gearwrench, Wiss)
Festool Group (TTS Tooltechnic Systems, including Festool, SawStop)
KKR (including Metabo, Metabo HPT)
Chervon (including EGO, Skilsaw)
Emerson
Werner
ITW (including Paslode, Tapcon)
JPW Industries (including Jet, Wilton, Powermatic)
Snap-on
Ideal Industries
Newell Rubbermaid
Delta Power Equipment
Kyocera (Senco)
Positec

Stanley Black & Decker

Headquarters: New Britain, CT, USA

Stanley Black and Decker Tool Brands

Construction and DIY (CDIY)

Black & Decker
Bostitch
Dewalt
Porter Cable
Stanley
Irwin (Acquired in 2017)
Lenox (Acquired in 2017)
Craftsman (Acquired in 2017)
~~Hilmor~~ (Acquired in 2017, sold to DiversiTech in August 2018)

Industrial

Blackhawk (Proto)
Bost
Britool
Facom
Lista
Mac Tools
Pastorino
Powers
Proto
Sidchrome
USAG
Vidmar

More Info (via Stanley Black & Decker)

Irwin Tool Brands (Sold to Stanley Black & Decker in 2017)

Irwin Tool Brands

Irwin
Hanson
Marathon
Marples
Quick-Grip
Record (vises)
Speedbor
Strait-Line
Vise-Grip
Unibit

More Info (via Irwin)

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Techtronic Industries (TTI)

Headquarters: Hong Kong, China

TTI Tool Brands Milwaukee Ryobi and Others

Power and Hand Tool Brands

AEG
Empire Level (owned by Milwaukee Tool, as of mid-2014)
Hart
Imperial Blades (acquired by Milwaukee Tool in 2018)
Milwaukee Tool
Ryobi
Stiletto (owned by Milwaukee Tool, as of 2007)

Milwaukee Tool is headquartered in Brookfield, Wisconsin.

TTI owns the Ryobi power tools and accessories division in the USA, North America, the UK, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, but Ryobi is also an independent company with separate product lines in some other parts of the world.

TTI also develops and produces Ridgid power tools, under a licensing agreement with Emerson. This arrangement began back in 2003 (press release, PDF).

Home Appliance Brands

Dirt Devil
Homelite
Hoover
Oreck
Vax

More Info (via TTI)

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Robert Bosch GmbH

Headquarters: Stuttgart, Germany

Bosch Tool Brands in 2019

Power Tools and Accessories

Bosch
CST/berger
Dremel
Freud (and Diablo)*
RotoZip
~~Skil~~ (Sold to Chervon)
Vermont American

*Bosch purchased Freud's power tool accessories segment in December 2008, namely their saw blades, router bits, and cutters division.

Automotive Tools and Equipment

Accu-turn
Actron
Beissbarth
OTC
Robinair
Sia Abrasives
Sunpro

Gardening Tools

~~Gilmour~~ (Sold to Fiskars)
~~Nelson~~ (Sold to Fiskars)

More Info (PDF via Bosch North America 2013 Publication)

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Fortive (Formerly Danaher)

Headquarters: Washington, D.C., USA

Danaher Fluke Keithley Tektronix Logos

Matco

Test & Measurement

Amprobe
Fluke
Keithley
Pomona Electronics
Tektronix

Fortive was spun off from Danaher in mid-2016.

More Info (via Fortive)

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Apex Tool Group

Headquarters: Sparks, MD, USA

Apex Tool Group Brands

(Apex Tool Group was a joint venture between Danaher and Cooper industries, and is presently owned by Bain Capital.)

Hand, Electrical, Industrial Tool Brands

In late 2017, many Apex Tool Group hand tool brands were rebranded under the Crescent Tools label.

(Apex Tool Group's most popular and well-known brands are in bold.)

Airetool
~~Allen~~
Apex
~~Armstrong~~ Read More about the closure
Atkins
Belzer
Campbell
Cleco
Collins
Crescent
Delta (Truck Boxes)
Diamond
DGD
Doler
Dotco
Erem
Gearwrench
Geta
H.K. Porter
Iseli
Jacobs Chuck
Jobox
KD Tools
K&F
Lufkin
Master Power
Mayle
Metronix
Niagara Tools
Nicholson
Plumb
Quackenbush
Recoules
Sata
Spline Gauges
Utica
Weller
Wiss
Xcelite

More Info (via Apex Tool Group)

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TTS Tooltechnic Systems

Headquarters: Wendlingen, Germany

Festool SawStop Logos

Festool
Tanos (Systainers)
Cleantec
Microcell
Narex
SawStop
Shaper Tools
Schneider Airsystems

SawStop was acquired by TTS Tooltechnic Systems in 2017.

Shaper Tools, a handheld CNC Router technology company, was acquired in 2019.

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KKR

Headquarters: New York, NY, USA

Metabo HPT/HiKoki – formerly known as Hitachi Power Tools
Metabo

KKR acquisition of Hitachi Power Tools and Metabo was announced in early 2017.

Hitachi Power Tools was rebranded to Metabo HPT (North America) and HiKoki (internationally).

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Chervon

Headquarters: China

Chervon Tool Brands

EGO (outdoor power tools and equipment)
Devon
Flex
Skilsaw (acquired from Bosch in 2017)
Skil (acquired from Bosch in 2017)
X-Tron
Hammerhead
Calmdura

Chervon is also an OEM that produces cordless power tools for other brands, including private label brands such as Lowes' Kobalt 24V Max brushless power tools line.

More Info (via Chervon)

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Emerson Tools

Headquarters: St. Louis, MO, USA

Greenlee – as of 2018
Klauke – as of 2018
Ridgid
ProTeam
Workshop

Emerson also manufactures wet/dry vacuums under Dirt Hound, and goClean brands.

Emerson acquired Greenlee from Textron in 2018, along with Klauke and Paladin (acquired by Greenlee in 2007).

Greenlee and Rothenberger engaged in a joint venture agreement for handling the North American market, lasting from 2004 thru 2015.

Ridgid power tools sold exclusively by Home Depot are developed, produced, and marketed by TTI. Ridgid hand tools and other plumbing and professional industry tools are not included in the arrangement.

More Info (via Emerson)

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Werner Co.

Headquarters: Greenville, PA, USA

Werner Co Brands

Bailey
Green Bull
Keller
Knaack
Weather Guard
Werner

More Info (via Werner Co)

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Illinois Tool Works (ITW)

Headquarters: Glenview, IL, USA

ITW Brands

Buildex
Duo-Fast
Kester
Hobart
Miller
Paslode
Racor
Ramset
Red Head
Tapcon

More Info (via ITW)

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JPW Industries/WHM Tool Group/Walter Meier Manufacturing

Headquarters: New York City, NY, USA

JPW Brands

JPW Industries is currently owned by Gamut Capital Management, a private equity firm (as of July 2017)

JET Tools
Powermatic
Wilton

Other JPW Brands

Edwards Manufacturing
Promac
Tool Air
GYS

More Info (via JPW)

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Snap-on Incorporated

Headquarters: Kenosha, WI, USA

Snap-on Industrial Brands

Snap-on
Acesa
ATI
Bahco
Blue Point
CDI Torque
Irazola
Irimo
Lindstrom
Palmera
Sioux
Wanda
Williams

(These companies fall into four groupings – Snap-on, Snap-on Industrial, SNA Europe, and Snap-on Specialty Tools, with some overlap.)

More Info: Snap-on Incorporated, Snap-on Industrial, SNA Europe

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Ideal Industries

Headquarters: Sycamore, IL, USA

Ideal Tool Brands

Ideal
Anderson Power
Casella Measurement
Pratt-Read
SK Hand Tools
Trend Communications
~~Western Forge~~ (Closing as of Feb 2020)

More Info (via Ideal)

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Newell Rubbermaid

Headquarters: Atlanta, GA, USA

Newell Rubbermaid Tool Brands Update 2019

Dymo
~~Hilmor~~
~~Lenox~~ (Sold to Stanley Black & Decker)
Rubbermaid Commercial Products
~~Sharpie~~

~~Irwin Tool Brands~~ (Sold to Stanley Black & Decker)

More Info: Newell Rubbermaid

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Delta Power Equipment Corporation (Chang Type Industrial)

Headquarters: Anderson County, SC, USA (Delta PEC); Taichung City, Taiwan (Chang Type)

Delta PEC Tool Brands

Biesemeyer
Delta

More Info (via ToolGuyd)

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Kyocera

Headquarters: Japan (Kyocera Parent Corporation)

Kyocera acquired Senco, known for their air compressors and nailers.

Kyocera also acquired Ryobi, but not the Ryobi brand that North America users are familiar with – that brand's tools and accessories North America business is still owned by TTI.

Senco
Aerfast Europe BV (formerly Van Aerden Group BV, a European pneumatic tools brand)
Ryobi (not the Ryobi most USA readers are familiar with)

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Positec

Positec Tool Brands Logos Rockwell and Worx

Rockwell
Worx

Positec has also been known to manufacture tools for other brands.

More Info (via Positec)

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Reader Recommendations

Which other companies should be added to this guide to corporate tool brands?

Independent Brands

Makita is one of few remaining power tool brands not owned by a larger corporation. Fein and Hilti are also independent.

There are very many hand tool and tool storage brands that remain independent. They're not listed here, although you can inquire about your favorite brands if you're unsure.