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Acme Electric Motor, Inc. (commonly referred to as Acme Tools) is a family-owned tool and equipment distributor [1] in the Midwestern United States.Founded in 1948 as Acme Electric Motor, Inc., this company was first rebranded as Tool Crib of the North in 1970, and then as Acme Tools in 2005.
The company is family-owned. The founder, Leonard Lee, was a recipient of the Order of Canada.He founded the company in 1978, in Ottawa, Ontario.Over the next ten years, the company opened several more stores in Toronto and Vancouver, and started manufacturing its own line of tools (starting with the Veritas Dovetail Marker in 1982).
Leonard G. Lee CM (July 17, 1938 – July 7, 2016) was a Canadian entrepreneur and founder of Lee Valley Tools and Canica Design. Lee was born in 1938 in Wadena, Sask., and grew up in a log cabin without electricity or running water.
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In 1997, Robert W. Miller and his son Steven G. Miller bought Big 5 back from Leonard Green & Partners, owners since 1992, by acquiring a majority take. By then, the company was making 400 millions in revenue with 202 stores in 9 states. [9] In 2016, the company posted net sales of $1.02 billion with 432 stores in 11 States. [10]
Hiram Lewis Leonard was born January 23, 1831, in Sebec, Piscataquis, Maine, to Lewis Leonard and his wife Hannah Blood. [1] Between 1835 and 1840, the family moved to Wayne County, Pennsylvania. Before he became pioneer of the modern bamboo fly rod, Hiram Leonard was a hunter, guide, gunsmith and self-taught engineer. He also played the flute. [2]
Harbor Freight Tools for Schools awards $1.5 million to skilled trades teachers and their schools annually. [ 10 ] Marking the opening of the 500th Harbor Freight Tools store near Chicago , Smidt announced the contribution of $100,000 and the donation of tools to Chicago Public Schools to support teachers and students in skilled trades learning ...