Who makes what?

[Geo-TH,In]

Talked to a guy who worked in a tool department. He was telling how small the world is getting. Don't remember all the details so that's why I'm posting the question who makes what?

Like, who makes most of the lawn mowers with different names?

What power tool company owns or makes tools sold under different names?

Just add to the list, like excide sells batteries under different names?

Husqvarna owns:

This may be interesting list.
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[Bret4207]

It used be AYP made most of the store brand tractors- Craftsman, etc. MTD used to make them too. Husky now owns a bunch of brands like Weedeater, Poulan, etc. It's pretty hard to keep track of it all.

 

[Married2Allis]

According MTD, they make ALOT:

Ace® Ace Hardware
Aircap® Discount & Mass Retail
Atlas® TruServ Hardware
Big-O® Orgills
Bolens® MTD Brand - Retailers Unspecified
Central Park® Handy Andy
Craftsman® Sears
Crusader® Heilig-Meyers
Cub Cadet® MTD Brand - Independent Cub Cadet Dealers & Select Major Home Improvement Stores
Garden King® Mid-States Distributors
Gardenway® MTD Brand - Retailers Unspecified
Gardenway by Troy-Bilt® MTD Brand - Sam's Wholesale Club
Hardware Hank® United Hardware
Huskee® Tractor Supply
Lawn Chief® TruServ Hardware
Lawnhawk® Ernst Home Centers
Lowes® Lowes Home Improvement
Malmo® Ernst Home Centers
Mastercraft® MTD Brand - Retailers Unspecified
Mastercut® MTD Brand - Retailers Unspecified
MTD® MTD Brand - Retailers Unspecified
MTD Pro® MTD Brand - Independent Cub Cadet Dealers & Sam's Wholesale Club Stores
Penncraft® J.C. Penney
Power Pro® K-Mart
Ranch King® Quality Farm & Fleet
Remington® MTD Brand - Independent White Outdoor Dealers & Hardware Stores
Ryobi® Costco
Servistar® TruServ Hardware
Signature® Montgomery Wards
Snowflite® MTD Brand - Retailers Unspecified
Statesman® Southern States
Town & Country® Tractor Supply
Trim King® Fred Meyer
Troy-Bilt® MTD Brand - Troy-Bilt Factory Direct, Independent Troy-Bilt Dealers, Home Improvement & Hardware Stores
Turf King® Central Tractor
Turf Power® Stambaugh-Thompson
Turf Pro® Heilig-Meyers
Western Sun® Intermountain Farmer
White Outdoor® MTD Brand - Independent White Outdoor Dealers & Hardware Stores
Wizard® Western Auto
Wolf-Garten® MTD Brand - Primarily sold in Europe
Yard Boss® MTD Brand - Independent White Outdoor Dealers & Hardware Stores
Yard Machines® MTD Brand - Retailers Unspecified
Yard-Man® MTD Brand - Retailers Unspecified

 

[Moonlite37]

Many manufacturers make several models for various markets. I bought a Coleman cooler and thought I had quality. I later saw it was indeed a Coleman made for Wal-Mart. I bought a pair of Mack boots with the Mack truck trademark on them. I bought them because I considered the Mack truck among the best, but the boots were no good. I bought a Schumscker (sp) battery charger which was good but discovered that the model was only sold in discount stores. It looks like the brand name means little

 

[Mike(NEOhio)]

I once tried that with Caterpillar work boots. Made by Timberline in China. Bret, AYP may own the names but who actually manufactures them? MTD started as Modern Tool and Die in Cleveland and used to stamp nearly everybody's mower decks. Later they transitioned into manufacturing.

 

[CenTex Farmall]

I have a big Craftsman ride-on from the 80's that was made by Roper. I think Roper is owned by AYP or became AYP.

 

[Geo-TH,In]

I'm find this to be very informative.
4 years ago I bought a whirlpool washer from lowes. Two years later a bearing went out of the transmission, Said it cost too much to fix. Internet said common problem. Went shopping for a different machine only to learn only one that didn't look like a whirlpool was a GE. The rest looked very similar from a bottom view. I thought whrilpool were a great company until then.
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[Married2Allis]

Hard to tell Mike. Could be a mega factory over in china turning out everything now. The companies that sell them don't want you to know. All the lawn tractors started to look alike 15 years ago.

 

[Goose]

I recall a number of years ago, I read that there were 213 tire brands in the U.S., and that 11 manufacturers made them all. With offshore tires coming on strong last several years, I'm sure that's all changed. However, I recently bought online a set of tires for my wife's Chrysler T&C that were advertised as "Cooper" brand. When they arrived, they had a different name on them. I mounted and balanced them and have no complaints. In fact, they look identical to a set of Coopers I have on my Dodge Grand Caravan that say Cooper, same tread, same everything except the name.

Another thing I found interesting. When I was building and racing stock cars, I routinely replaced the gears in a GM manual steering gearbox with Corvette manual gears to speed up the steering. Came the day when I built a Plymouth Duster stock car from the Chrysler kit car blueprints for a fellow. He also wanted the steering speeded up. I looked at the Mopar steering gearbox and the input shaft looked familiar. Upshot was, the Corvette gears interchanged perfectly with the gears in the Mopar gearbox. The main castings were nowhere near the same, but the gears interchanged.

when I was in the Marine Corps, I once had an M1 rifle that was manufactured by International Harvester. We joked about my "Farmall" rifle.

Who knows who makes what.

 

[Geo-TH,In]

This made me very consfused. Looks to me like Stanley is the white elephant in the room. Stanley has it's fingers in many brands.
Link who owns by whom

 

[Geo-TH,In]

Who owns milwaukee power tools? Techtronic Industries of Hong Kong.

Techtronic Industries owns Ryobi, AEG, DreBo, Homelite and Hoover just to name a few

Disclaimer, this info is off the internet and as fast as things seem to change, not sure who owns what or where they are doing business. geo.
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[Geo-TH,In]

Husqvarna owns several brands:[5]

Husqvarna
Gardena
McCulloch
PoulanPro
WeedEater
Flymo
Jonsered
Klippo
Diamant Boart
RedMax

 

[JerryS]

During the Vietnam War, a wide assortment of heavy ordnance was manufactured by the Remington Rand typewriter/computer company.

 

[Cory Schmidt]

Ariens makes products for several different brands, including(but not limited to) MTD and Yard Man...I know someone that use to work there.

 

[El Hombre]

Last 30 or 40 years it's become common to buy the competition instead of competing with them. Why get into a price war that takes all the profit out of what you're selling? Just buy them and depending on circumstances, either keep them above ground or bury them. Either way they won't be making trouble for you....

 

[CenTex Farmall]

I took an entire steering box from a 70's Ford van and it literally bolted onto the front of my 70's Chevrolet Impala stock car. Before that I was using a spare that came from a Camaro. Obviously those steering boxes were a vendor type item.

 

[notjustair]

I pulled the pan off the '58 GMC grain truck. It has the GMC only 270 straight six. When got the pan off I was staring at the floating oil pickup identical to the one in a Farmall M. I don't know if it was a copied design or a shared supplier.

 

[Ian Beale]

We're pretty sure that the brake assembly from an Allis 45 grader has a lot of similarity to the ones on a Cat 12 of the era. Not sure yet if the shoe width might be be a bit less on Cat.

More when we know more

 

[Ian Beale]

George

I think you'll find that Husqvana's parent is Electrolux

And there's rumours here that Electrolux has a hand in Stihl.

Now that would be like Birmingham Small Arms not really worrying if you bought a BSA or Triumph motor bike way back when they owned both

 

[Geo-TH,In]

This post has shown me, you can't judge today's tools by what we had 30 and 40 years ago. Who makes what, who owns what, is constantly changing along with where they are made.

Not to mention there are professional grade tools, diy grade and many grades in between. So it's not really fair to compair your professional grade tools to diy grade. Some people may use their diy grades on weekends.

This is information overload for an old man like me.
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[DGinVT]

Goose:
During WW11 there was a hugh demand for firearms and ammo. As a result there were many different manufactures of carbines, rifles and handguns. When I worked for the US Treasury/Coast Guard. I had a 45ACP made by Union Switch and Signal, a carbine by Inland Motors and another manufacturer made the M1 rifle. It is interesting to note that Remington has recently come out with a .45 ACP, the first one they made since WW11. Today I wish I had a 45 ACP made by all the different vendors that supplied them. Perhaps the rarest 45 ACP is the one made by Singer Sewing Machine Co. The reason being that the Singers had many skilled German Machinists, some immigrants and some native born. The government considered them too good to waste on 45 autos and they were put to work using their skills on other more essential war products.

 

[jacksun65]

Mtd also makes the John Deeres sold at lowes

 

[Steven-Id]

This is an interesting subject. Here is some info.

Steven
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[T in NE]

Cooper has a Starfire line, and Roadmaster, which are "engineered by Cooper". Basically they can still claim they make all their Cooper tires here.

They also make a lot of "house brand" tires, and made Pep Boys' tires for them.

 

[Jason S.]

(quoted from post at 00:27:09 05/21/16) Mtd also makes the John Deeres sold at lowes

MTD does not make the Deere mowers sold at Lowes. John Deere makes those mowers. I'm on break in the factory that builds them typing this. If you looked closer you would see that the mowers carry a card stating where they was built. Greeneville TN. If you are still not convinced then watch Fox news because they were here a few weeks ago filming for an upcoming show.

 

[Jason S.]

and before somebody says it the Deere mowers sold at Lowes and Home Depot are the same mower that you find at the dealer. A D170 at Lowes is the same D170 at the dealer. No difference. NONE! The Ztrak 535 is the same mower at Lowes or the dealer.

 

[BarnyardEngineering]

Mack and Caterpillar boots are not made by Mack or Caterpillar.

Companies LICENSE their name and logo out to anyone who is willing to pay for rights to put it on unrelated products. Used to be just hats and T-shirts, but someone figured out you could put that logo on other products such as boots and tools, thus fooling the customer into thinking that the product was made by the "quality" manufacturer!!

Caterpillar boots are the equivalent of Superman underoos!