Who Owns Whom?

Aug 1, 2004 12:00 PM


This list is a handy resource when you can't find a company. Many of these brands were once independent companies that have been acquired by larger corporations over the last 20 years. Some of these brands live on, while others are not actively promoted. The brand names are in bold type with the parent following the slash.

A.B. Chance/Hubbell

Agastat/Tyco

Allen-Bradley/Rockwell Automation

Appleton/EGS Electrical Group

Blackburn/Thomas & Betts

B-Line/Cooper Industries

Burndy/FCI

Bussmann/Cooper Industries

CEFCO/British General Electric Co. (English Electric Fuse Corp.)

Challenger Electrical Equipment Corp./(Westinghouse)/Cutler-Hammer/Eaton Corp.

Crouse-Hinds/Cooper Industries

Edison/Cooper Industries

Fargo/Hubbell

Furnas Electric Co./Siemens

GEC Alsthom/Ferraz Shawmut

Gould Shawmut/Carbone Ferraz

ITE (Breakers/Controls)/Siemens

ITE (Protective Relays)/ABB

M. Stephens Manufacturing/Intermatic

McGraw-Edison/Cooper Industries

McGraw-Edison OCB/Pennsylvania Transformer

Merlin Gerin/Schneider Electric

Modicon/Square D (Schneider Electric)

Reliance Electric/Siemens Energy and Automation

Siemens Electromechanical Components/Tyco

Sola/Hevi-Duty/EGS Electrical Group

Sprecher+Schuh/Rockwell Automation

Square D/Schneider Electric

T.J. Cope/Tyco

Telemecanique/Schneider Electric

Texas Instruments controls division/Siemens Energy and Automation

Westinghouse Electric Corp.(Breakers/Contactors/Controls)/Cutler-Hammer/Eaton Corp.

Westinghouse Electric Corp.(Protective Relays)/ABB

Westinghouse lamps/North American Philips (now Philips Lighting)