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Milwaukee Tools No Longer Available at Lowes Soon

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.

Newer news items:

05/22/2008 - Reciprocating saw that they claim is their fastest and most durable recip saw ever: the 6538-21 Supe…</div>', 270);" onmouseout="hidettip();">Milwaukee's 6538-21 Super Sawzall is their Fastest, Most Durable Ever
05/19/2008 - HOT: Milwaukee M-Spector Video Inspection Tool
04/30/2008 - Milwaukee's 2401-22 Compact Driver Featured in Popular Woodworking
03/26/2008 - Milwaukee Introduces New Ice Hardened™ Sawzall® Blades
03/25/2008 - Milwaukee Introduces New Ice Hardened™ Hole Saws
03/24/2008 - Milwaukee Introduces New Big Hawg™ Hole Cutters
03/23/2008 - Milwaukee Introduces the 0725-20 V28 4-½” Grinder
03/22/2008 - Milwaukee Introduces New 15 Amp Super Sawzall® Recip Saw: The 6538-21
03/21/2008 - Generators that ar…</div>', 270);" onmouseout="hidettip();">Milwaukee Introduces New Line of Gas-Powered Generators
03/20/2008 - Wet/dry vacuums that pro…</div>', 270);" onmouseout="hidettip();">Milwaukee Introduces New Cordless Wet/Dry Vacuums

Older news items:

11/02/2007 - Milwaukee Updates Popular Cordless Screwdriver to Lithium Ion
10/17/2007 - drill, Milwaukee is also launching a brand new 18v Lithium I…</div>', 270);" onmouseout="hidettip();">Two Different Milwaukee 18v lithium ion battery Systems?
10/17/2007 - Milwaukee's 2601-22 18V Lithium Ion Compact Drill/Driver
09/10/2007 - Milwaukee's New Compact Driver
07/12/2007 - Milwaukee Announces Recall of 14.4 & 18v NiCD Batteries

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Rick said:

	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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February 13, 2008
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Rich said:

	No trace of Milwaukee Tools on Lowes.com Web pages, 2/17/08
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February 17, 2008
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Bastet said:

	There will be no discounts on the remaining inventory of Milwaukee tools at Lowe's.
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February 21, 2008
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Donna Young said:

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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February 28, 2008
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NA said:

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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S. French said:

	I will not buy from Lowes if they will not support a U.S.A. company. That is it too many of our companies and jobs are and will be lost to foreign made products. I am especially upset that they will not support Milwaukee products. They better look at this issue again and change their minds. S. French
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