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Fortune Brands Home & Security

Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc.
Public company
Traded as FBHS
S&P 500 Component
Founded 2011; 6 years ago (2011)
Headquarters Deerfield, Illinois
Key people
Christopher Klein, President & CEO
Products Fixtures
hardware
Revenue IncreaseUS$ 5.0 billion (FY 2016)
413 million (FY 2016)
Total assets IncreaseUS$5.1 billion (FY 2016)
Total equity IncreaseUS$2.4 billion (FY 2016)
Website www.fbhs.com

Fortune Brands Home & Security, Inc. (FBHS) is an American manufacturer of home fixtures and hardware, headquartered in Deerfield, Illinois. The company's product lines include Master Lock, Sentry Safe, MasterBrand Cabinets, Moen faucets, Therma-Tru entry door systems, and Waterloo tool storage products. The company has said that it holds market leadership positions in all of its segments, and has 16,000 associates that generated $5.0 billion in net sales in 2016.

Fortune Brands Home & Security was created on October 3, 2011 from part of the former Fortune Brands holding company. The spin-off was related to the pre-announced corporate strategy of divesting unrelated product lines to focus on the liquor business. On the day after spinning off FBHS, Fortune Brands renamed itself as Beam Inc. to reflect this new strategy. Beam Inc. was subsequently purchased by Suntory to become its Beam Suntory subsidiary in April, 2014.

On October 18, 2011, it was announced that Pershing Square Capital Management owned a 15% stake in the company, and considered its stock to be a very attractive investment.


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