Ames True Temper: Past, Present and Future...

We are a leading North American manufacturer and marketer of non-powered lawn and garden products including tools and decorative accessories.

We sell our products primarily in the U.S. and Canada through (1) retail centers, including home centers and mass merchandisers, (2) wholesale chains, including hardware stores and garden centers, and (3) industrial distributors. We have a large portfolio of recognized brands that enables us to channel manage and offer specific branding strategies for key retail customers. We believe that our global manufacturing strategy, based primarily upon a blend of domestic manufacturing and sourced product, makes us cost-competitive while allowing us to provide a high level of customer service.

Our brands are among the most recognized across our primary product categories in the North American non-powered lawn and garden products market. Our brand portfolio includes Ames, True Temper, Ames True Temper and Stanley (licensed from The Stanley Works), as well as contractor-oriented brands including Union Tools, Razor-Back, Jackson Professional Tools, and John Deere (licensed from Deere & Company). This strong portfolio of brands allows us to build and maintain long-standing relationships with the leading companies that sell our product categories.

With our acquisition of Dynamic Design™ in 2002, we became a supplier of plastic and foam flower pots, outdoor planters, window boxes, indoor planters and hanging baskets.

Products
Utilizing a variety of brand names, we manufacture and market one of the broadest product portfolios in the non-powered lawn and garden industry. We currently offer 14 distinct product lines, anchored by two core product categories: long handle tools and wheelbarrows.
We believe that, as a result of our high product quality, high level of customer service and strong customer relationships, we have earned market-leading positions in the following six product lines: long handle tools, wheelbarrows, snow tools, striking tools, lawn carts and repair handles.

The following is a description of each of our product lines:

Long Handle Tools: Our long handle tool product offering consists of shovels, spades, scoops, rakes, hoes, cultivators, weeders, post hole diggers, scrapers, edgers, forks and hooks. We offer numerous types of heads, including plastic and steel, and various handles manufactured from wood, engineered polymers and fiberglass. We currently offer over 1,600 SKUs in this category. Long handle tools are marketed under numerous brand names including Ames, True Temper, Jackson Professional Tools, Union Tools, Razor-Back, Garant and more.

Wheelbarrows: We manufacture a full line of wheelbarrows, primarily under the True Temper, Jackson and Garant brand names. We offer both poly and steel wheelbarrows at a full range of price points for a multitude of tasks.

Planters: With our acquisition of Dynamic Design™, we became a supplier of plastic and foam flower pots, outdoor planters, window boxes, indoor planters and hanging baskets. We source most of our pots and planters line from manufacturing facilities abroad. All of our pots and planters are sold under the Dynamic Design brand. The Dynamic Design planter line is extensive with pots in all price ranges. Our line includes plastic planters, polyurethane foam planters under the Ceramic-Lite® and Feather-Lite® brands, fiberglass planters, and our improved fiberglass material called PolyLam4®.

Hose Reels: We sell rotating, portable, freestanding and swivel hose reels for the home gardener and industrial customer. Hose reels are designed to keep hoses from getting tangled, while providing compact storage of hoses when not in use. Our hose reels are available in portable, wheeled and wall-mount versions. We also offer a line of patio and deck hose reels. We market our hose reels under the Ames brand name.

Snow Tools: We manufacture and distribute numerous types of snow tools, including shovels, pushers, roof rakes, sled scoops, and ice scrapers, with plastic, steel and aluminum heads. We recently introduced our new Snow Plow which clears snow significantly faster than traditional shovels and is designed to remove snow without heavy lifting, which is appealing to many older consumers. We make these products under the Ames, Garant and True Temper brand names.

Striking Tools: We offer a wide range of striking tools, including axes, picks, mallets, mauls, wood splitters and sledgehammers. These products are marketed under the True Temper, Jackson Professional Tools, Garant and Woodings brand names.

Decorative Accessories: We offer a wide variety of poly accessories, including edging, fencing, and splash blocks marketed under the Ames brand.

Lawn Carts: Lawn carts typically are used for transporting everything from plants and mulches to garden debris, sticks and rocks. Lawn carts have molded-in tool holders for ease of carrying tools. Their flat bottom design is useful for carrying plants and easy dumping. Our lawn carts are marketed under the Ames brand.

Pruning Tools: We offer a broad line of pruning tools, including grass, pruning, lopping, hedge and pole pruning tools, as well as a variety of trimming saws and cutting tools.
Repair Handles: We manufacture an extensive line of repair handles for lawn and garden tools, such as long handle tools, snow tools and striking tools. Our repair handles are marketed under our Garant and IXL brand names.

Garden Hoses: We supply light, medium and heavy-duty garden hoses.
In addition to the brands listed above, we also utilize unbranded products to capture the opening price point at major retailers. While this category does not generate significant revenues, it is an important part of our step up strategy. As an example, we use opening price point products for our long handle tools to strengthen the position of that category's "good", "better" and "best" product lines.

Contact Info:
Ames True Temper Company
465 Railroad Avenue
Camp Hill, PA 17011
TEL: (800) 833-3068
FAX: (717) 730-2552
Email: info@ames-truetemper.com

If you are a Canadian customer the line of Dynamic Design planters is available through Garant, our Canadian affiliate. You can contact Garant at:

Garant
375, chemin Saint-François Ouest
Saint-François, Québec, Canada G0R 3A0
Tél. : (418) 259-7711
Téléc. : (418) 259-2557
sales@garant.com