Textron
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Formerly | Special Yarns Company |
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Company type | Public |
ISIN | US8832031012 |
Industry | Aerospace industry Automotive industry Defence industry |
Founded | 1923 |
Founder | Royal Little |
Headquarters | Providence, Rhode Island, US |
Key people | Scott C. Donnelly (Chairman, CEO, President, Member of the Management Committee) |
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Number of employees | 35,000 (2015) |
Subsidiaries | Subsidiary list
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Website | www |
Footnotes / references [1] |
Textron Inc. is an American industrial conglomerate based in Providence, Rhode Island. Textron's has a lot of subsidiaries which include Arctic Cat, Bell Textron, Textron Aviation (which itself includes the Beechcraft, Hawker, and Cessna brands), and Lycoming Engines.[2][3]
History
[change | change source]![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8f/Charlotte_J_Sternberg_-_Textron_advertising_-_Ladies%27_Home_Journal%2C_1948.jpg/220px-Charlotte_J_Sternberg_-_Textron_advertising_-_Ladies%27_Home_Journal%2C_1948.jpg)
Textron began as a textile company in 1923, when a Royal Little founded the Special Yarns Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts. The company manufactured a lot of products such as synthetic yarns, and niche product at the time. By the start of World War II, the company was known as Atlantic Rayon Corporation and manufactured parachutes.[4]
Divisions
[change | change source]• Able Aerospace Services
• Arctic Cat
• Bell Textron
• E-Z-GO
• Greenlee Textron
• Jacobsen
• Kautex Textron
• Textron AirLand
• Textron Aviation
• Textron Systems
References
[change | change source]- ↑ "2015 Textron Annual Report" (PDF). Textron. 2015. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ↑ "Textron | 2020 Fortune 500". Fortune. Retrieved 2021-05-20.
- ↑ "History | Textron". www.textron.com. Retrieved 2021-05-20.