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Founded as an importer and distributor of fire doors and fire sprinklers, it grew over the decades into a diversified manufacturer of steel and metal products as well as a leader in the fire protection industry in
Australia and New Zealand. Valued at US$ 1 billion by 1990, it was acquired by American
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security division, for a nominal NZ$ 1 in 2014. The sale was completed on 29 January 2016. The new owners have returned
Wormald to local management, claiming that "the sale presents an exciting opportunity for the Wormald business to return to its roots and benefit from a more flexible, less
194:. With Mr. Russell retiring in 1896 to join Mather & Platt as the country manager of France, Harry (who migrated to in Australia in 1890) joined the company as a sub-manager two years later and was admitted into partnership in 1900, Russell & Wormald becoming Wormald Bros., based in
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Evergreen Capital, LLC. Evergreen Capital had formed an Australasian business relationship with Tyco, having previously acquired Tyco's fire and security operations in Fiji (including the rights to the Wormald brand there) two years previously and purchasing Armourguard, Tyco's
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Wormald International Limited, acquired Mather & Platt, whose fire-protection products began Wormald's business nearly a century earlier. In 1990, Wormald International, valued at US$ 1 billion, was itself purchased by
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centralised business structure...with a renewed focus on regional-based decision making to provide our customers with...trusted local service".
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