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'Snap-on buys Illinois manufacturer Sturtevant Richmont for $13 million'. 'Snap-on acquires New Hampshire manufacturer'. '2010 IW Best Plants Winners: Excellence Thrives'. 'Snap-on expands Milwaukee hand tool facility'. ^ Lockwood, Denise (December 18, 2013).'Snap-on workers vote to join Teamsters'. 'Snap-on Tools closing Johnson City plant - 150 to lose job Elizabethton Plant to continue operations'. 'Snap-on plant in Elizabethton joins in company's centennial celebration'. For the 2010 racing season, the company sponsored Penske Racing. Snap-on sponsored NHRA drag racer Doug Herbert from 1992 until 2008. Snap-on has also sponsored Repsol Honda Team in MotoGP since 1998. In 2004, the company began sponsoring Cruz’s brother Tony Pedregon. Since 1992, Snap-on has sponsored Cruz Pedregon.

#Snap on tools driver#

The first driver Snap-on became associated with was Rick Mears in 1979.

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The company has sponsored Penske Racing teams in the NASCAR Cup Series and Xfinity Series as well as Ind圜ar.

In March 2021, Snap-on acquired Canada-based Dealer-FX Group for $200 million. based in Tustin, California for $36 million. In September 2020, the company acquired AutoCrib Inc. In May 2017, the company acquired Norbar Torque Tools Holdings Limited for $72 million. Later that year, the company acquired Sturtevant Richmont for $13 million. In October 2016, the company acquired Car-O-Liner Holding AB, a Swedish collision repair tool company, for $155 million. In 2014, the company acquired New Hampshire–based Pro-Cut for $42 million. Williams & Co was officially renamed Snap-on Industrial Brands. In 2010, the Murphy, North Carolina plant was named one of the top 10 plants in North America by IndustryWeek. In 1998, workers at the company's Milwaukee plant voted to join the Teamsters labor union and the company expanded the facility in 2013. The next year, Snap-on opened a manufacturing plant in Johnson City, Tennessee and closed the plant in 2007.

The company opened their wrench forging plant in Elizabethton, Tennessee in 1974. Eventually these salesmen became independent businessmen and authorized dealers using larger walk in vans to carry a growing product line. Newton Tarble was hired, and came up with the idea of developing routes for company dealers to see mechanics on a weekly basis. Īfter World War II, Stanton Palmer advertised for a military officer to organize and develop a larger sales force for the expected post war sales boom. In 1930, the company's headquarters moved to Kenosha, Wisconsin. The company's slogan was '5 do the work of 50'. The business manufactured and marketed ten sockets that would 'snap on' to five interchangeable handles. Snap-on was founded as the Snap-on Wrench Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1920 by Joseph Johnson and William Seidemann. These trucks are typically assigned to a particular region and work within that region with individual franchisees. The Snap-on TechKnow Express is a van that showcases everything Snap-on has to offer in the realm of diagnostic equipment, and the Rock 'n Roll Cab Express is a truck with various types of tool storage showing customization options, including units larger than what can fit on a standard franchisee van. Snap-on franchisees visit their customers in their place of work, once weekly, in a van loaded with items for purchase. Snap-on has always maintained the philosophy that the customer's time was too valuable to spend going shopping for tools. Snap-on tools are sold only by dealers and not in retail stores. Snap-on diagnostic products are sold in Europe and Brazil under the name Sun. Automotive emissions control diagnostics equipment is produced in its San Jose, California diagnostic facility.

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Software development happens in the US, Ireland, Australia, Mexico, Brazil and China. Snap-on produces hand-held electronic diagnostic tools for the computer systems used in most modern cars and heavy duty vehicles at their Kenosha site. The company manufactures tool storage cabinets in its Algona, Iowa plant. Torque products are made and assembled in City of Industry, California. Wheel balancers and tire changers are produced in Conway, Arkansas. Pneumatic and cordless tools are manufactured under the 'Ingersoll Rand' name in Murphy, North Carolina. operates plants in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Elizabethton, Tennessee, and Elkmont, Alabama.