Company:Illinois Tool Works

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Short description: American company
Illinois Tool Works Inc.
TypePublic
NYSEITW
S&P 500 Component
IndustryManufacturing
Founded1912; 112 years ago (1912)
FounderByron L. Smith
HeadquartersGlenview, Illinois, U.S.
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
E. Scott Santi (CEO)
RevenueIncreaseUS$14.1B (2019)[1]
Number of employees
45,000 (2019)[2]
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Illinois Tool Works Inc. or ITW is an American Fortune 500 [3] company that produces engineered fasteners and components, equipment and consumable systems, and specialty products. It was founded in 1912 by Byron L. Smith and has built its growth on a "small-wins strategy" based on decentralization, simplicity, customer-focused innovation, and acquisitions.[4]

Today, it employs approximately 45,000 people[5] in hundreds of businesses across 53 countries,[6] and is based in Glenview, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago .

ITW has more than 18,000 granted and pending patent applications worldwide.[6] The company typically ranks in the top 100 of patent issuers in the U.S.[citation needed]

ITW subsidiaries

ITW comprises a number of subsidiaries. Notable brands include Hobart, Miller Electric, Paslode, Foster Refrigerator,[7] Brooks Instrument. In August 2018, U.S. Tax Court Judge Albert G. Lauber determined that ITW owed no tax on over $356 million in repatriated funds from its foreign subsidiaries because the transactions had been sufficiently structured as debt.[8]

Illegal exports

The United States Department of Commerce imposed a $142,000 civil penalty on Illinois Tool Works in 2000, to settle allegations that the company illegally exported chemicals to Brazil on seven occasions between March 1994 and October 1997 without the required licenses and making false or misleading statements on Shipper's Export Declarations. Illinois Tool Works agreed to pay the penalty. $37,000 was suspended as part of the settlement. The chemicals exported can be used for commercial purposes and in the making of chemical weapons as well.[9]

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