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covers parts of the stainless steel, allowing the locks to come in different colors. Master Lock requested that the designer locks be stocked in departments outside the hardware section of retailers. In 2003, the company acquired
Illinois based American Lock and all their intellectual and material property.
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visited the Master Lock headquarters in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin and lauded the company's recent return of jobs from overseas locations. As of that time, it was reported that the company had returned about 100 jobs from overseas during the preceding two-year period. In 2012, Master Lock introduced a line
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Master Locks are made for a variety of uses, including personal locking, vehicle locking, and others. New products in the 2000s moved beyond locks, such as industrial space cover sealing mechanisms. As of 2012, almost all of the company's locks are known to have serious security flaws, which allow
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Titanium Series of padlocks, the first major redesign in fifty years. The goal was to add design variety and aesthetic value to the utilitarian functionality of their locks. The lock mechanism has titanium reinforced steel, with a stainless steel body. A shroud
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in 1921 to produce the locks themselves, initially with five employees. In 1924, the company was granted the first patent on such a laminated lock design. Stahl led the company to become a major manufacturer of locks and the three co-founders worked closely together until Soref's death in 1957.
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American Brands Corporation in 1970.
208:, thereby proving its durability and thus their slogan "Tough Under Fire". Master Lock continued running similar ads during future Super Bowls, spending almost their entire annual marketing budget on the single commercial. Later, Master would incorporate the image into a one second-long
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of combination padlocks called the dialSpeed. The dialSpeed lock is battery-operated, has a lit face, and features multiple user-programmable combinations. It has a master unlocking code that can be accessed through the company web site. In 2014, Master Lock acquired
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Before co-founding the company in 1921, Harry Soref had been a traveling locksmith in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico, had invented a lock for protecting military equipment, and had founded the "Master Key" company for making master
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service called Master Lock Vault that includes a web site and associated software applications for use on various devices. In 2011 Fortune Brands spun off Master Lock as part of
Fortune Brands Home & Security.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin area. In 1993, the company began moving much of its manufacturing to China. Motivated by the
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