Lennox International Inc. - supplier of equipment for external climate control systems . Lennox manufactures and sells a wide range of products related to heating, ventilation, air conditioning and cooling systems. [1] The company's annual turnover (for 1998 ) was $ 1.82 billion; the number of employees is 11,700. [2]
| Lennox International Inc. | |
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| Type of | Public company |
| Listing on the exchange | |
| Base | 1895 |
| Founders | |
| Location |  USA : Richardson , Texas |
| Industry | Heating and Ventilation |
| Products | air conditioning, heating, ventilation |
| Site | www.lennox.com |
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History
- 1895 - Dave Lennox began to produce coal furnaces from sheet steel on rivets in his machine shop in Marshalltown , Iowa .
- 1904 DW NORRIS and other investors acquire the Lennox Furnace company for approximately $ 40,000.
- 1923 - Lennox builds a factory in Syracuse , New York .
- 1935 Lennox develops the industry’s first series of oil-fired and gas-fired air-heating furnaces.
- 1937 - Lennox starts producing furnaces with built-in fans.
- 1949 - John Norris Sr. becomes president of Lennox.
- 1953 - Lennox Industries builds a new headquarters and plant in Toronto , Canada .
- 1955 Lennox replaces the name Lennox Furnace Co. at Lennox Industries Inc.
- 1962 - Lennox opens a plant in Basingstoke, England , and becomes an international company.
- 1970 - CLIREF is established for the production of chillers, located in Mions near Lyon. One of the owners is Ets BRANCHER.
- 1971 - Ray C. Robbins replaces J. Norris Sr. as President and Chief Administrator.
- 1974 - Lennox builds a commercial production plant in Stuttgart , Arkansas . The company is established FRIMAIR for the production of equipment for HVAC, located in Longvic near Dijon.
- 1980 - J. Norris Jr. becomes president of Lennox.
- 1985 - Lennox buys Heatcraft .
- 1986 Lennox creates Lennox Int 'l Inc. as a parent company for Lennox Industries and Heatcraft.
- 1988 Lennox acquires Armstrong AirConditioning, Bellevue , Ohio .
- 1995 - LII creates Lennox Global Ltd for operations outside North America.
- 1996 - Lennox establishes a joint venture with Ets BRANCHER and a year later buys a controlling stake: HCF becomes HCF LENNOX.
- 1998 - LGL opens European headquarters in Brussels , Belgium .
HCF LENNOX becomes a LENNOX company.
- 1999 - LENNOX begins publicly issuing shares on the New York Stock Exchange.
- 2000 - LENNOX International acquires SERVICE EXPERTS. [3]
Products
The company's products are represented by a wide range of systems and independent units: [4]
- split systems
- roof conditioners (rooftopes)
- gas heating systems
- central air conditioners
- chillers
- fan coils
- precision aggregates
- autonomous boiler rooms
- capacitor blocks
- monoblock air conditioners
- control systems
Lennox International sells its products under the following brands [5] :
- Lennox
- Armstrong air
- Ducane
- Bohn
- Larkin
- Advanced Distributor Products
- Service Experts et al.
Structure and representation
Lennox has a developed network of representative offices and branches in many countries of the world. [6]
Australia
- Australia : LGL Australia Holdings Pty Ltd , Heatcraft Australia Pty Ltd , Heatcraft Sunshine Coast Pty Ltd
- New Zealand : Heatcraft New Zealand Limited
Asia
- PRC : Heatcraft Cooling Technology (Wuxi) Co., Ltd
- Singapore : Heatcraft Refrigeration Asia Pte Ltd.
America
- Brazil : Lennox Participacoes Ltda.
- Canada : Lennox Inc. , Lennox Industries (Canada) Ltd. , Bryant Heating & Cooling Co. Ltd.
- Mexico : LII United Products, S. de RL de CV
- USA : LHP Holdings Inc. , Lennox Hearth Products Inc.
Europe
- Belgium : Lennox Benelux NV
- United Kingdom : LGL Refrigeration UK Ltd.
- Germany : LGL Germany GmbH
- Spain : Lennox Global Spain SL
- Italy : LGL Refrigeration Italia srl
- Netherlands : LGL Holland BV
- Poland : Lennox Polska spzoo
- Portugal : Lennox Portugal Lda
- Russia : LeSash LLC
- Slovakia : Lennox Slovensko sro
- Ukraine : Representative Office of Lennox Polska SP Z.O.
- France : LGL France SAS
- Czech Republic : Lennox klimatizace Czech Republic as
Notes
Links
- The official website of the company
- Lennox on linkedin.com website
- Lennox International in numbers at finance.yahoo.com
- Dynamics of the number of employees by country (not available link)