Thursday, November 10, 2016

Simonds Corporate Names

1832-1851 J. T. Farwell & Company, a partnership of Abel Simonds and J.T. Farwell.

1851-1864 Abel Simonds manufacturing under his own name.

1864-1868 Simonds Brothers & Co., Simonds family ownership and management.

1868-1922 Simonds Manufacturing Co., Simonds family ownership and management.

1922-1965 Simonds Saw and Steel Co., Simonds family ownership and management.

1965-1988 Simonds Saw and Steel Division, when the Simonds family sold their shares in 1965 to publicly traded Wallace-Murray Corp. In 1980 Household International Inc. acquired Wallace-Murray Corp., making Simonds Saw and Steel a small part of a large, diverse, and unwieldy conglomerate.
1981 article: Household Finance's Strategy Questioned

1988-2003 Simonds Industries Inc., after senior management along with Greylock Management Co. bought the company in 1988 and returned it to private ownership.

2003-present Simonds International Corp., renamed when Simonds acquired the International Knife & Saw group of companies.
Bloomberg profile: Simonds International Corp.

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