Tomkins (company)
| Tomkins plc | |
|---|---|
| legal form | Public limited company |
| founding | 1925 |
| Seat | London, UK
|
| management | James Nicol ( CEO ) |
| Number of employees | about 34,000 |
| sales | 2,947,000,000 US dollars |
| Branch | Automotive supplier, rubber |
| Website | www.tomkins.co.uk |
| As of December 31, 2013 | |
The Tomkins plc in 1925 as FH Tomkins Buckle Company founded. Under its chairman Greg Hutchings , the company rose from 1983 to a large conglomerate . In 1996 the Gates Corporation from Denver and with it the Uniroyal Power Transmission Company were taken over. Tomkins is therefore the largest manufacturer of V-belts and one of the largest manufacturers of belt drives today . From 1987 to 2001, the small arms manufacturer Smith & Wesson belonged to Tomkins.
In 2010 the company was taken over by a consortium made up of the Canadian pension fund and Onex Corporation . Onex sold Gates Corporation (acquired by Tomkins in 1996) to Blackstone in 2014 .
Individual evidence
- ↑ gates.com: Executive Team
- ↑ https://ww2.gates.com/Turkey/brochure.cfm?brochure=10912&location_id=15323
- ↑ Annual Report 2013
- ^ Matthew Lynn: How pride came before a fall for Greg Hutchings
- ^ COMPANY NEWS; SMITH & WESSON IS SOLD TO MAKER OF TRIGGER LOCKS
- ↑ Devin Banerjee, Jodi Xu: Blackstone Agrees to Buy Gates Global in $ 5.4 Billion LBO. In: BloombergBusiness . April 4, 2014, accessed January 11, 2016 .