Tennant Company
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| legal form | Corporation |
| ISIN | US8803451033 |
| founding | 1870 |
| Seat |
Minneapolis , United States
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| management | Chris Killingstad, President & CEO |
| Number of employees | 3,236 |
| sales | 808,570,000 US dollars |
| Branch | Cleaning technology |
| Website | www.tennantco.com |
| As of December 31, 2016 | |
Tennant Company is an American manufacturer of mobile cleaning machines with around 3000 employees. It mainly produces floor scrubbers , sweepers , sweepers and vacuum cleaners . The Tennant Company is listed on the New York Stock Exchange .
The company operates worldwide and is the market leader in cleaning machines with a 13% market share in the USA, ahead of its competitor Nilfisk-Advance .
history
The company was founded as a wood processing company in Minneapolis by George H. Tennant in 1870. In 1907 it was incorporated as a company. In 1910, Tennant began manufacturing motorized floor cleaning equipment.
In 2013, the German company Kärcher won against Tennant in a lawsuit over misleading advertising.
Tennants B5 Battery Powered Burnisher won the Bronze IDEA (International Design Excellence Awards) in 2014. Tennant was on the 2014 Forbes list of the "100 Most Trustworthy Companies in America".
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Tennant 2016 Form 10-K Report , accessed March 26, 2017
- ↑ Who is the biggest floor-cleaning equipment maker in town?
- ^ History
- ^ Dpa: Misleading advertising: Kärcher wins over competitor Tennant. Wirtschaftswoche , June 14, 2013, accessed on May 11, 2015 .
- ↑ fool.com: Tennant