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OAK PARK, IL - JANUARY 05: Craftsman accoutrement are offered for auction at a Sears abundance on January 5, 2017 in Oak Park, Illinois. Sears appear it was affairs their Craftsman apparatus to band to Stanley Black & Decker for $900 million.(Photo: Scott Olson, Getty Images)
Stanley Black & Decker is architecture a bigger retail cast for Craftsman tools: the iconic apparatus cast will anon be accessible at Lowe's stores.
The apparatus maker will activate affairs Craftsman articles including ability tools, wrenches and mowers at the home-improvement alternation during the additional bisected of abutting year, Stanley Black & Decker appear Tuesday.
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The New Britain, Conn.-headquartered aggregation bought the Craftsman cast from Sears Holdings in January for about $900 million. At the time, Stanley Black & Decker said it accepted sales of Craftsman articles to add about $100 actor of anniversary acquirement advance over the abutting decade, or about $1 billion in 2027.
"Craftsman is a broad-based cast beyond North America (and) plays beyond so abounding categories and channels," said Jeffery Ansell, Stanley Black & Decker's admiral of all-around accoutrement and storage said Tuesday in a appointment alarm with analysts afterwards the aggregation appear its third-quarter earnings.
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Most sales of Craftsman articles today are in Sears food and Sears-related retailers including Kmart, as able-bodied as Sears Hometown and Outlet stores, which afar from Sears Holding Corp., in 2012. Another 10% of Craftsman sales are at added retailers including Ace Hardware.
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Sears awash the Craftsman cast to advice account losses as it struggles to accomplish a turnaround. The afflicted banker has allowable several circuit of abundance closings at Sears and Kmart stores.
Sears will abide to advertise Craftsman products, but Tuesday the aggregation appear it would abdicate affairs Whirlpool appliances since the companies could not accede on pricing. However, Sears will abide to advertise Whirlpool-produced Kenmore appliances.
"Craftsman has a acclaimed history as an iconic American cast and in Stanley Black & Decker we accept begin a abundant buyer that is committed to accretion Craftsman and allowance it to ability its abeyant alfresco of its accepted channels," said Sears CEO and Chairman Edward Lampert at the time of the sale.
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