Company type | Private |
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Industry | Manufacturing |
Founded | Toronto, Ontario, Canada (September 12, 1912 ) |
Founder | Alex Gray |
Headquarters | , Canada |
Number of locations | 2 |
Key people | |
Products |
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Number of employees | 100 (2011) |
Divisions | Dynamic Tools |
Website | www.graytools.com |
Gray Tools is a Canadian professional tool company based in Brampton, Ontario. Founded in 1912 by Alex Gray (1883-1969), Gray Tools is Canada's largest professional tool manufacturing company, with 4000 industrial products available. [2]
Gray Tools Canada was founded in 1912 by Alex Gray as a machinery equipment supplier. [3] As the automobile industry was starting up, Gray began making automobile manufacturing tools and tool kits specific to the automobile companies in nearby Detroit.[ citation needed]
In May 2012, President and owner Alex Gray III sold the company to Garry Nuttall and Frank Dominguez. Alex Gray III remains with the company as chairman. [4]
As of 2013, the company employed 60 people [5] at its head office in Brampton, Ontario, where all manufacturing is done. [6] Company warehouses are located in Brampton and Edmonton, Alberta. [7]
Gray Tools celebrated its 100th birthday by making a large donation of tools and equipment to local schools and by initiating the Gray Tools Canada Highest Standard Achievement Award, presented to a student with exceptional success in vocational education. [6] [8] [9]
The main focus at Gray tools is the professional hand tool line. Tool storage and organization is a subsidiary product line. A cheaper line of foreign-made tools sold as Dynamic are made to compete with the middle range tool marketplace. [3]
Company type | Private |
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Industry | Manufacturing |
Founded | Toronto, Ontario, Canada (September 12, 1912 ) |
Founder | Alex Gray |
Headquarters | , Canada |
Number of locations | 2 |
Key people | |
Products |
|
Number of employees | 100 (2011) |
Divisions | Dynamic Tools |
Website | www.graytools.com |
Gray Tools is a Canadian professional tool company based in Brampton, Ontario. Founded in 1912 by Alex Gray (1883-1969), Gray Tools is Canada's largest professional tool manufacturing company, with 4000 industrial products available. [2]
Gray Tools Canada was founded in 1912 by Alex Gray as a machinery equipment supplier. [3] As the automobile industry was starting up, Gray began making automobile manufacturing tools and tool kits specific to the automobile companies in nearby Detroit.[ citation needed]
In May 2012, President and owner Alex Gray III sold the company to Garry Nuttall and Frank Dominguez. Alex Gray III remains with the company as chairman. [4]
As of 2013, the company employed 60 people [5] at its head office in Brampton, Ontario, where all manufacturing is done. [6] Company warehouses are located in Brampton and Edmonton, Alberta. [7]
Gray Tools celebrated its 100th birthday by making a large donation of tools and equipment to local schools and by initiating the Gray Tools Canada Highest Standard Achievement Award, presented to a student with exceptional success in vocational education. [6] [8] [9]
The main focus at Gray tools is the professional hand tool line. Tool storage and organization is a subsidiary product line. A cheaper line of foreign-made tools sold as Dynamic are made to compete with the middle range tool marketplace. [3]