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Allen Roy Allen Roy is offline
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Default De-Por-ta and thining product lines?

WMH owns Powermatic, Jet, Wilton, Performax, Waxmaster, Columbian and
Polishmaster.

And from Black and Deckers website:

2004 - Black & Decker ® announce the purchase of the Tools Group from
Pentair, Inc. (NYSE: PNR) for approximately $775 million in cash. The Tools
Group, which includes the Porter-Cable, Delta, DeVilbiss Air Power, Oldham
Saw, and FLEX businesses, had sales of $1.08 billion and operating profit of
$82 million in 2003.



Yes I agree that the end users like us will suffer as some products
disappear out of their offering as well as good products being mass produced
in China so that the quality suffers.

Allen