Who makes tools for each company?

I'm sure they change around often according to price, but it would be interesting to see who makes all the Walmart "stuff" they sell under their house "Equate" logo. I cant tell the difference in any of it versus the national brand usually...

Thanks for the post, interesting

John T
 
Back in the 1970's I worked at an auto part store part time while in high school. We carried a line of hand tools called TAT (Thorson Allied Tool). They made wrenches, ratchets and sockets, and the sort. They had a lifetime guarantee and we didn't require proof of purchase because we sold them. If they broke, bring them back for replacement no questions asked. A fella brought in a sizeable wrench one time, broke the box out doing whatever. I handed him a replacement, took the broken one in return. That was also about the time that Super Glue came out, so I took the broken wrench, cleaned it up and super glued it back together and laid it on the counter. My boss, the store manager gave me something to do, clean up, restock, something. We were friends so I screwed with him, "Me? Why do I always...?" and I picked up the wrench, yelling, I gave the counter a real good whack and the glued piece broke off and went flying as he looked on. I stopped, looked at the big broken wrench and then he took it from me and looked at the big broken wrench and told me not to get so mad. I took the wrench back, "Junk" and tossed it into the returns box. They weren't bad tools. Not as good as Craftsman, but were cheaper and guaranteed for life. I still have some. Think they've long since gone out of business or bought out.

Mark
 
I doubt that Home Depot, Lowes, or Harbor Freight manufacture tools. They do own tool brand-names, and contract with tool-making companies to buy tools marked with their brand names.
 
Personally if I had a business that required tools for my trade I would buy only brand name tools with a lifetime guarantee Basically a tax right off anyway. For the common man just buy the cheapest you can find. I have been working on cars and tractors for years and have had very little problems with what some people would call junk tools. Almost all tools if used correctly wont break but if you use a tool for some thing other than its design then it might. craftsman has always had a great guarantee. I had a 3/4 rachette for years. don't have a clue where I got it. probably in a box of junk at a sale. under pressure it would skip like some of the balls were broke. guessing it was at least 25 years old. took it to my local sears store and asked them about it. she pulled a new one off the shelf and gave it to me. I was happy. Its each individual preference to what tool they but and the maker of it but I suspect 90 percent of all tools are made in china. india or some other foreign country. just my 3 cents worth.
 

This is very deceiving. The chart shows who OWNS the tool brands, NOT who makes them!

I can assure you Harbor Freight does not make anything they sell. Neither do the majority of brands on the chart.

Like everything else these days, the brand is meaningless. You can have your own name on a line of power tools and have them delivered next week. Pick your color.

Grouse
 
Yeah but they left out that Makita owns
Dolmar which is what all there gas
powered tools are. It's a very
incomplete and misleading chart, there's
no Lowe's manufacturing plant, or harbor
freight factory, its all contracted out.
This chart is simply who owns what brand
nothing to do with who made it. And
besides harbor freight isn't the brand
just the store, they have Chicago
electric, Pittsburgh, Vulcan and a
million other of there own store brands
 
When the new Orchealns store opened. I was looking at their wrench display when I noticed one or two wrenches had "ACE HARDWARE" stamped on them. The rest of the wrenches were labeled "PRO CHOICE". They must both be made at the same factory.
 
Not tools, but fish: When I worked for the cannery, we'd get a load of fish in, and might pack as many as 6 different "brands" from one load of fish.

The ONLY difference was what lid got sealed onto the can.

I suspect the same thing is true of tools.

WalMart, KMart, and similar stores all get their tools from the Sum Ting Wong Ironworks and Noodle Factory in Smo Kee City, China.
 
(quoted from post at 09:31:00 10/02/17) Yeah but they left out that Makita owns
Dolmar which is what all there gas
powered tools are.

Makitas gas powered tools are branded Makita. Dolmar also appears as a stand alone brand. Makita owns Dolmar now. Nobody else makes anything branded Makita except Makita. Fine saws, Dolmars...
 
On the Garage Journal, there is a stiy thread in the "Power and Hand Tools" (I think) called Truck tools Equivalent. it lists many manufacturers of various tools and what they're rebranded as.
 
NAPA had a line of New Britain tools years ago that were better than Craftsman in my judgement! They lost that line for some reason, sad, I still have a few of their wrenches.
 

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