Wasn't Homelite "A Textron Company" at one time?

Homelite was Textron's baby until they pulled a McCulloch--didn't develop new
technology, lost pro market to European saws, and had to settle with the Harry
Homeowner market. Textron unloaded them to John Deer maybe 10 years ago who
dropped all the (outdated) pro models left and concentrated 100% on junk. Deer
started getting a bad rep for this so they sold them to Techtronics a couple
years ago.

McCulloch swtiched to make crap way back in the '70-'80s, but hung around until
recently before going under and being bought by another offshore concern.

GTO(John)