STANLEY ACQUISITIONS

ACQUISITIONS

 1937: Stanley Works entered the UK market with the acquisition of J.A
Chapman of Sheffield
 1980: Stanley Works acquired Mac Tools.
 1984: Stanley Works purchased Proto from Ingersoll Rand and it
becomes Stanley Proto.
 1986: Stanley Works acquired Bostitch from Textron.
 1990: Stanley Works acquired Goldblatt and ZAG Industries.
 1992: Stanley Works purchased the Chatsworth, California-based
Monarch Mirror Door Co. Inc., a 1,000-employee manufacturer of
sliding and folding mirror-doors, formerly owned by Oscar Kain, of Los
Angeles (now deceased). Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
 2000: Stanley Works acquired Blick of Swindon, England, a leading UK
integrator of security solutions, communication, and time management
solutions to the commercial and industrial sectors, selling direct to end
users, and CST Berger.
 2002: In October, Stanley Works acquired Best Access Systems of
Indianapolis, Indiana for $310 million. The acquisition also prompted
the creation of a new Access Controls Group for Stanley. Further
additions to this new working group included Blick.
 2004: In January, Stanley announced plans to acquire Frisco Bay
Industries Ltd., a anadian provider of security integration services, for
$45.3 million. In December, the acquisition of ISR Solutions, Inc.,
headquartered in Washington, DC was announced. ISR Solutions is an
electronic security integrator providing the U.S. federal government
and commercial customers with access security system services.
 2005: In January, the acquisition of Security Group, Inc. was
announced. Security Group was composed of two primary operating
companies: Sargent & Greenleaf, Inc., a manufacturer of medium and
high security locks and Safemasters, a North American provider of
physical security installation, maintenance and repair services, with an
emphasis on mechanical locking systems. An additional acquisition of
Precision Hardware was made in 2005.
 2006: Stanley furthered its corporate assets in the security market by
acquiring HSM Electronic Protection Systems after it had been spun off
from Honeywell in compliance with pre-emptive Securities and
Exchange Commission antitrust rulings. In the
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meantime, the company obtained security contracts as the primary

contractor to secure three NASA spaceflight centers.[9] In 2006 also
Stanley Works acquired Facom.

 2007: Late in the year, Stanley acquired OSI Security of Chula Vista,
California, a provider of battery operated wireless lock technology and
supplies to government, education and healthcare industries.
 2008: In June, Stanley announced the acquisition of Sonitrol, which
provides high end security systems that use audio listening devices as
the primary means of intrusion detection. Since the 1960s, they have
accumulated over 100,000 commercial accounts in over 150 cities, and
have an impressive record of helping police departments apprehend
criminals. There is a combination of corporate owned locations and
franchise locations. Stanley also acquired Xmark Corporation, which for
over 25 years has provided Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
solutions to locate and protect people and medical equipment in
healthcare environments. As of 2008, many of the Stanley Security
Services divisions are being integrated under the unified HSM brand.
 2009: On November 2, Stanley announced a merger with Black &
Decker. The merger was completed on March 12, 2010.