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Master Lock
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Master Lock is an American company that develops padlocks, combination locks and related security products and manufactures them mostly in China and Mexico. Now a subsidiary of Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc., Master Lock Company LLC was formed in 1921 by locksmith-inventor Harry E. Soref, and is headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.〔〔〔 In 1970, the company was purchased by American Brands from Soref's heirs. American Brands was later renamed to Fortune Brands, which then split on October 3, 2011 to create the Fortune Brands Home & Security company.
==Early company history==
Before founding the company in 1921, Harry Soref had been a traveling locksmith in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico,〔(Harry E. Soref ), Univ. Wisconsin Milwaukee Sheldon B. Lubar School of Business.〕〔 had invented a lock for protecting military equipment,〔 and had founded the "Master Key" company for making master skeleton keys.〔 In 1919, Soref then invented a padlock design that used laminated steel layers to economically produce an exceptionally strong lock body.〔Alfred, Randy, (March 2, 1887: Birth of the Master Locksmith ), Wired.com, March 2, 2009 (republished March 2, 2011).〕 He initially tried to get some large companies interested in using his design, but was unsuccessful, so he recruited financial backing from two friends, P. E. Yolles and Sam Stahl,〔(Master Lock Company History ), Funding Universe,〕 and founded the Master Lock company in 1921 to produce the locks himself, initially with five employees.〔〔 In 1924, he was granted the first patent on such a laminated lock design.〔 He led the company to become a major manufacturer of locks before his death in 1957.〔 However, the brand had not yet reached its peak status as an iconic, universally-familiar consumer brand at the time of his death.〔 Sam Stahl, one of the original investors, then led the company until he also died in 1964.〔https://books.google.ca/books?id=ZDjcBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA59〕 The Soref family then took over the company management, later selling the company to the American Brands Corporation in 1970.〔
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