Illinois Tool Works

Short description: American company

Illinois Tool Works Inc.

Type| Public

Traded as

| NYSE: ITW
S&P 500 Component
Industry| Manufacturing
Founded| 1912; 112 years ago (1912)
Founder| Byron L. Smith
Headquarters| Glenview, Illinois, U.S.

Area served

| Worldwide

Key people

| E. Scott Santi (CEO)
Revenue| US$14.1B (2019)[1]

Number of employees

| 45,000 (2019)[2]
Website| {{{1}}}

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]

## Contents

* 1 ITW subsidiaries
* 2 Illegal exports
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## 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]

## References

1. ↑ investor.itw.com
2. ↑ "ITW | Global Diversified Manufacturer". https://www.itw.com/.
3. ↑ "Fortune 500 List of Companies 2022". Fortune. https://fortune.com/fortune500/2022/search/.
4. ↑ , Wikidata Q104920246
5. ↑ "Illinois Tool Works" (in en-US). https://www.itw.com/about-itw/.
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "ITW website". ITW. http://www.itw.com/about-itw/.
7. ↑ "Commercial Refrigeration Equipment | Commercial Fridges and Freezers". Foster Refrigerator. http://www.fosterrefrigerator.co.uk.
8. ↑ Note, Recent Case: Tax Court Holds in Favor of Taxpayer on Loan Between Foreign Subsidiaries, 132 Harv. L. Rev. 2378 (2019)
9. ↑ "U. S. Bureau of Industry and Security - Illinois Company Settles Charges of Unlawful Exports of Chemicals". Bis.doc.gov. 2000-05-02. http://www.bis.doc.gov/news/archive2000/illinoistoolworks.htm.

## External links

* Business data for Illinois Tool Works:

* Google Finance
* Yahoo! Finance
* Reuters
* SEC filings

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