Power Tool Manufacturers and Who Really Owns Them In 2024 

It is important to know that the owner of the brand, is not the same company that produce the tool, but he does determine the quality (and after sale service) . Many production companies produce tools (and parts of tools) for a large number of different brands.

I have been a woodworker for the last 40 years and have my own shop for the last 10 years. Just wanted to to say Nice Job. 👍💪

TTS parent company was missed (Festool, SawStop, Tanos, etc.) Also the parent company for Metabo and Metabo HPT was missed. Another is the company who makes Worx and Catipillar power tools.

Have not heard the name flymo in years! Used a flymo mower with no wheels, worked like a hovercraft , great on wet areas or steep slopes with a rope. Orange deck and I think a 2 stroke brown engine? 1980 ish.

Cant help but wonder what would happen to most of these companies with Chinese manufacturing if something were to happen with Taiwan.

Where can I get the graphic as a poster? I teach Engineering students and it would be awesome example of “the tangled web we weave”.

What about Festool and Metabo?

In England the rhyming slang for Black & Decker is Hack and Wrecker 😂

Skill has really done a great job creating home owner power tools, like their new contractor table saw that competes with Dewalt at about half the price.

Smart comment. First buy the tool, only to find out that that brand is junk. That Is something a professional cannot afford. He has to earn his living from that. He buys his tools based on experiences with the brand or reputation among his colleagues. This also applies to to a certain extent to the serious DIY where the price-performance ratio is an important factor. If I e.g. buy Makita, Festool or Hilti, I know that I am buying a very well-performing tool. Conclusion, it is important to know which manufacturer support which brand.

What about metabo and festool? And in Europe, what about Einhell, Dexter and Parkside?

That was an eye opener. Is there a chart available?

Stihl as Husqvarna are old and still strong manufactures specially in green works.

Started with DeWalt, then Milwaukee, then switched to MAKITA due to them being innovative and having tools others do not offer. Yes, some of it can be expensive, but the quality is excellent. Let’s face it, most tool brands are very good if not excellent. A skilled operator can do a lot with ANY brand of tool.

Chervon is also manufacturing tools for Hilti now, most notably the new oscillating multi tool.

is the picture available somewhere?

Nice review! Also missing: worx and einhell

Thanks for the review.

Years ago I used to buy Rockwell tools. They were good tools. Do they even exist today?

In countries such as Malaysia, South Africa and Panama for example, I am seeing Total and Ingco tools. They all the same but with different brands. They are budget tools, Chinese, but so far, the tools I have bought from them have stood up to the torture. I should add, I have pretty much owned many of the more well known brands, Bosch, Skill, Black and Decker, DeWalt, Makita, Ryobi and few stranger brands like Toro .... Have you encountered these?

Hilti is by far the best quality of all these brands listed here although also the most expensive one. But as so often, especially true with tools, you get what you pay for. No USA or Chinese Made crap can keep up. The bitter truth🤷‍♂️

What about Hyper Tough from Wall Mart.

Emerson manufactures the orange ridgid vacuums, as well the craftsman vacuums, and filters for both, not only the plumbing red and black tools

Kobalt 40v Gen4 and newer products, batteries and chargers are most definitely made by Chervon and no longer Greenworks. In fact a quick look at the products in store next to the skil 40v line will reveal they share a lot of the same small parts. Seems like they are pretty equivalent quality and price wise just built to Lowe's particular specifications, most of which I tend to prefer over the Skil version. Overall I've been happy with my gen4 Kobalt 40v stuff

Stanley’s divestment is doors/security is wild. They been at that for maybe 15 years now. All the automatic doors and secure heavy doors on any random commercial buildings. A large chunk of them are Stanley. Some interesting diversification when they have money and are able to invest. Panera Bread is heavily divested in veterinary clinics.

Nice job. Head spinner for sure!

As a US consumables manufacturer i have approached, served and continue to serve/supply some of these brands. I'm my segment it is always a race to the bottom. I call it busy work. There is near zero profit while you are required to jump through a maze of regulations, red tape, as their support portals charge you money for the privilege of getting paid in 90 days. We walked away from nearly all of it.

Some woodworking power tools missed include Grizzly, Ricon, Laguna, Harvey ...

Menard's Tool Shop air and electric tools used to be much the same as Harbor Freight's Central Pneumatic and Chicago Electric, some were just the brand sticker changed. I have an oscillating tool and roofing nail gun you can't tell which store they came from as the labels are now worn off. I know the gun came from Menards, at time of purchase I was fighting a wind and wasn't driving the 50+ miles to get to a HF just to dry in a roof before the rain came. I'm not positive where the oscillating tool came from, I may have gotten it while getting other items in Green Bay. Anyway, of late HF has changed most of their lines either moving to other factories or countries so not all the items have an equivalent in the other place.

Metabo and Hikoki

Fyi Harbor freight doesn't own its manufacturers. They are rebrander, something like sears craftsman, CF being just a name. We do know who is making tools for them for the most part. The other are different as they own the most of the factories and sell the tools to retailers under their names brands.

Would love to know the HPT/Metabo evolution?

Hello congradulations on the reserch and info given about the maine tool manufacturers very informative... But i was wondering who makes METABO and WALTER STHIL, DELTA, KING and GENERAL tools ? unless i missed the info ! Thank you

Where can we find a PDF poster of the brands. I am a visual learner and there is no way for me to remember what you listed and being able to make meaningful purchase decisions based on common platforms and manufacturers would be great.

Is the Ottawa Tool Company OTC still it's own company or has it been bought up by others?!? 🤔

I didn't see Porter Cable, did you cover them? I mostly own Makita, but have a few Porter Cable Routers and bench sander.

Stanley also installs security systems

I didn't hear you mention Snap on.

Festool, Tanos etc…

Who makes ozito tools please

I believe Hitachi owns Metabo or maybe it was the other way around. Who owns Fein?

Doesn't TTI also do Hart for Walmart? They look like rebranded Ryobi tools. EDIT: I see you have them in your graphic, just not in the video. Could add Amazon's Denali brand is just repackaged Skil products too. And I personally like some Vessel hand tools... which seems independent like Knipex and Klein?

Excellent job finding all this ownershop info. My question is who makes quality power tools? When a company is slurped up, does it suffer? Is the previous management and manufacturering left intact? I started with the Ryobi battery system. So, I have to stay with them. For home products, they are fine.

I was wondering about Lisle tools

Much like VCR war and the DVD battles and the latest apple vers USB .. the battery alliance is going to dominate the future of cordless tools. It is beyond frustrating to have throw out a 350.00 impact wrench because of this propriety battery format like ryobi and older BOSCH post system version when all others have switch to a sliding battery system of the battery alliance.

What about Klein?

Would this list only include tools distributed in America? As from what I can gather the South African version of Ryobi differs quite a lot from our American cousins across the pond, The South African Ryobi flavor of tools is currently distributed by a company known as Stevens & Co, which, correct me if I am wrong, was Ryobi Japan licensing sold off to Kyocera.

What did Stanley B&D do with Delti and Porter Cable?

I know i will never buy a so called lifetime warranty tool from Black and Decker or their parents companies. When an expensive Challenger ratchet broke i was asked to mail it to their HQ and after 6 months and multiple calls they sent me back a very cheap one telling me it was equivalent...equivalemt to Dollar Tree quality

Matco & Snap-On

Makita also owns Maktec

What about Hikoki (formally Hitachi)?

Can we get a link to download that chart of all the tool manufactures you use ?

You missed festo (festools) in your list

Masterforce from Menards In The Midwest is owned by chevron tools too!

What about Parkside Powertools??

Who makes Delta table saws

Quite interesting to learn about all these tool manufacturers. I have a question I haven't been able to know in a long time; I bought a double bevel/slide 10" compound miter saw about 20 years ago from a company called RONA (they took over Lowe's here in Canada). It was made in the People's Republic of China. That's all I know about it. Who was the manufacturer of this brand of saw? I'd love to know! Anyone? Anyone? :)

How about Snap-On tools?

who makes the delta unisaw now?

You mentioned greenworks, but who owns them?

Who makes Ozito tools?

Festool and lamelo sawstop

Most are made in China. Just check the box the tools came in.

And all these companies get the parts and pieces made in the from the same manufactures as well.

What about Stihl?

We know who makes what....Real info would be exactly where these tools are manufactured...what city,what facility..

What's missing from this is what all this really _means._ Okay, so Craftsman and DeWalt are both owned by Stanley Black & Decker. So what? I take it that each of those brands are still operating separately, at least for the most part. Does having the same owner change those brands' products in any way? Or in any way that matters? If so, how?

What about Stihl? Did I miss it. Does Stihl make any other brands? And what about Delta?

Igual a indústria de alimentos e bebidas e a indústria de carros. Ou seja, estamos nas mãos deles...

Metabo?

You could have left the graphic up.

Snap-on where do they come into the picture?

Who owns Ramset ?

worcester bosh saws is good on cheese on toast

Stihl? Knipex?

Is it possible to get a copy of the chart you show listing all of the brands?

Millwalkee, Ryobi anf AEG .. from the same company... Too funny... oh and Hoover.

Who owns green works?

Thank you for this video! I was kind of curious about who owns what!

So many great historical quality brands whom are mostly garbage and the only thing of quality is their history.

Most of my tools are Metabo, missing here

WORKPRO?

Now answer the question ; What country owns the companies you mentioned.. Also the Appliances we have in the kitchen and the laundry appliances, and the hand tools in your garage. China owns us now.

Who owns Greenworks?

It should be said that Chervon is a Chinese company. So just remember that ego brand that gives you problems is Chinese.

Who owns Greenworks Tools?

I’ll stick with Makita.

no metabo

Put on headphones and listen to the noise when you are show different brands. I have on the airpod pro 2 and its headache inducing and totally unnecessary.

Can you say oligopoly?

Would have given thumbs up but pity about the annoying background music. Many more European brands are missing.

If the tool works well, who cares who makes it?

is MTD trash?

Western Forge is no more. They closed in 2020.

Chinese can make the best or worst tools, it depends ...

That cut sound he plays before saying each brand were sooo annoying that I couldn't watch past the 1st minute.. Kill the messenger..lol

Almost everything made by Stanley Black and Decker brands is disposable garbage with only a few notable exceptions.

Worcester is pronounced.....wooster......not whorchester 😀😀😀

Stop pounding on the desk. 🤧