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The Stanley Works is positioned to meet
tomorrow's competitive challenges and continue as a
leading worldwide manufacturer and marketer. Our businesses
are diversified in terms of products, geographic spread
and channels of distribution. We have moved effectively
to expand our products into new market areas such as
the Far East and Eastern Europe. Today, the Stanley
name is known around the world as a reliable guarantee
of quality and value.
In 1843, an enterprising businessman named Frederick
Trent Stanley established a little shop in New Britain,
Connecticut to manufacture door bolts and other hardware
from wrought iron. Stanley's Bolt Manufactory was only
one of dozens of small foundries and other backyard
industries in town struggling to make a go of it by
turning out metal products. But Stanley possessed a
special innovative spirit and an uncommon passion for
doing things right and his modest enterprise prospered
and grew as The Stanley Works.
Today, 163 years after the company's
founding, The Stanley Works is a worldwide manufacturer
and marketer of tools, hardware and specialty hardware
products for home improvement, consumer, industrial
and professional use. The company stills bears not
only Frederick Stanley's name but also the spirit
and passion that drove him to succeed where others
failed. The essence of that drive was summed up in
1877 by a widely read trade publication, Asher & Adam's
Pictorial Album of American Industry:
"The secret of this company's
success is an open one -- all who will may avail themselves
of it, and all who do so will succeed -- one word tells
it all and that one word is -- Excellence."
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