Brand file
Homelite
From generators in Port Chester, New York, to the 12-pound XL-12 and three million saws, then Textron, John Deere and a Hong Kong toolmaker. Where the Homelite name ended up.
Ownership timeline
- 1921Homelite starts in Port Chester, New York, making small portable generators
- 1955Becomes a division of Textron (by September 1956 at the latest)
- 1957Gastonia, North Carolina chainsaw plant dedicated on 25 November
- 1963The XL-12 reaches dealers in November
- 1971Homelite builds its three millionth chainsaw
- 1994Deere & Company buys Homelite from Textron for about $120 million
- 2001Deere exits; Techtronic Industries agrees to buy the Homelite brand
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