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Feb 13 2008

Milwaukee Tools No Longer Available at Lowes Soon

Written by Ben Jackson

Wednesday, 13 February 2008

For a few days now, we've been hearing rumors that soon Home Depot will soon be the sole big-box tool retailer carrying Milwaukee brand power tools, which have previously been available from both Lowes and Home Depot stores. These rumors have been confirmed and it looks like Lowes will no longer be a retailer of Milwaukee products. Of course, this could mean that there could be some good deals to be had on Milwaukee Tools at Lowes stores.

In a way, it does make a lot of sense. After all, the company who owns Milwaukee Tools, Techtronic Inc (TTI), is also the manufacturer of Home Depot's popular store brand power tools, Ryobi and Ridgid. They also make a lot of Craftsman-brand power tools, Dirt Devil/Hoover vacuum cleaners and a few other brands of consumer home goods.

Editor's Note: We initially published that Home Depot was going to start carrying Milwaukee tools..but that turns out it was old news. Thanks to ToolDork for pointing out our error.

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Milwaukee at HD
written by Rick , February 13, 2008

Good, more made-in-China cordless tools at HD.

Anybody notice the loose fit between the battery and the drill base on the V18 0824 hammer drill/driver.

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Milwaukee Gone from Lowes.com,
written by Rich , February 17, 2008

No trace of Milwaukee Tools on Lowes.com Web pages, 2/17/08

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Milwaukee at Lowe\'s
written by Bastet , February 21, 2008

There will be no discounts on the remaining inventory of Milwaukee tools at Lowe's.

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Milwaukee
written by Donna Young , February 28, 2008

TTI Bought Milwaukee a few years back and it was announced at the international builders show in Orlando. It was announced at the same time that the Ridgid line was introduced. I was at the press conference when TTI gave then CEO of Home Depot Nardelli a custom Orange County Chopper. I think it would be interesting to see if one of HD purchases was TTI. HD is in bad financial shape. I prefer to shop at Lowe's where people actually know waht they are talking about

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milwaukee employee
written by NA , June 10, 2008

I'm a Milwaukee employee. TTI bought us about 4 years ago. We heard nothing from them for a year other than welcome to TTI. Since then, they have closed the Mexico plant, Kos, MS plant closes this month, Blythville, AK plant closes in Sept. Jackson, MS and Greenwood, MS plants are the only ones that will be open by the end of the year. They say that Greenwood won't close, but nobody's saying Jackson won't close. I feel that my job is on borrowed time.

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