Everything about Remington Products totally explained
Remington Products, commonly known as simply
Remington, is a worldwide
personal care corporation which manufactures razors (
shavers),
epilators, and
haircare products for both men and women. It is a subsidiary of
Spectrum Brands.
History
The origins of Remington Products date back to the formation of
E. Remington & Son, a
firearms maker founded in
1816. E. Remington & Son made occasional forays into products other than firearms, such as
sewing machines and
farm implements—but its most significant side venture was when inventor
Christopher Sholes persuaded the firearms company to help him develop the
typewriter with the
QWERTY keyboard, which is still the standard today. In
1886, E. Remington & Son sold the typewriter company, which became Remington Typewriter Co. The gun company became
Remington Arms Company, still a leading firearms maker.
Remington Typewriter Company merged with the
Rand Kardex Corporation in
1927 to become
Remington Rand. Remington Rand branched out into making
adding machines,
filing cabinets,
punch card tabulating machines, and other
office equipment to become a leading office equipment company. Remington Rand began to make
electric shavers in
1937 with the
Remington Model E. The company's most significant move was when it bought the pioneering
Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company in
1950. Remington Rand delivered the first
UNIVAC computer to the
United States Census Bureau the following year.
Remington Rand merged with
Sperry Corporation, developer of the
automatic pilot, amongst other
devices, in
1955. The combined company became the
Sperry Rand Corporation. In
1979, Sperry Rand sold off its office machines business and
Victor Kiam bought the electric shaver company in a
leveraged buyout. This left Sperry Corporation, as the company became, with the computer company and related operations.
Burroughs Corporation, another computer company, bought Sperry in 1986. The merged company became
Unisys Corporation.
Victor Kiam's Remington Products Company became very profitable, branching out into other personal care
appliances, buying
Clairol's personal care appliance business in
1994. Kiam sold
controlling interest in Remington to
Ike Perlmutter prior to the Clairol
acquisition that same year. Remington changed hands again on
June 1996 when Ike and Victor sold controlling interest in the company to
Vestar Investment Group. Victor Kiam died in
2001. In
2003, the Kiam family and Vestar sold Remington to the
battery company
Rayovac. Rayovac changed its name to
Spectrum Brands and
markets Remington brand men's and women's electric shavers,
hair clippers,
beard and
moustache trimmers, nose and ear hair trimmers,
foot massagers,
make-up mirrors, heated hair rollers,
blow dryers, and
curling irons.
Products
Products made by Remington Products include the
Lady Remington, an electric shaver for women.
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