Great Star has been expanding at a rapid pace. They acquired Goldblatt back in 2010, and then they acquired Pony and Jorgensen in 2016, and Arrow Fastener in 2017. Hangzhou Great Star Industrial acquired Shop Vac in late 2020, saving them from bankruptcy, and they recently acquired SK Hand Tool from Ideal Industries. Earlier this year, Great Star also acquired certain assets from Joh Friedrich Behrens, a German pneumatic nailer company. There is another company that Great Star is in the process of acquiring, and if it goes through, this will be (at least) their third in less than a year. Great Star is in the process of acquired Geelong Holdings, a tool box manufacturer. According to a news story...
s The point man for Canada’s vaccine rollout is aiming to ensure provinces aren’t left scrambling when doses don’t arrive as planned, as Ontario reported a record number of new daily COVID-19 infections. Maj.-Gen. Dany Fortin said 855,000 doses of the Moderna vaccine that were to have arrived last week are now in the country and distribution should wrap up Thursday. Ontario Premier Doug Ford has blamed Moderna lags for immunization clinics closing their doors or cancelling appointments in recent days. Fortin said quality assurance backlogs, not production issues, have led to delays of about a week to 10 days for Moderna shipments. Four million more doses of that vaccine are expected by the end of May and deliveries are...
For hands-on advice from designers and pro DIYers, plus more scrappy before-and-after transformations, subscribe to Reno. Let your in-box do all the hard work—for now. Today we’re used to buying everything online—mattresses, groceries, plants. Now you can renovate your kitchen without ever getting up from the sofa, too. Semihandmade, the brand known for offering beautiful fronts for IKEA cupboards, has launched a direct-to-consumer line called Boxi by Semihandmade that’s all about getting you new, preassembled cabinets superfast. Think: three to four weeks fast. No wonder Sarah Sherman Samuel and Anita Yokota have already used them for their latest projects. “You don’t need to go to a big-box store; you don’t need to go to IKEA—that’s the exciting part,” says the company’s founder, John...
s WASHINGTON — The number of American bald eagles has quadrupled since 2009, with more than 300,000 birds soaring over the lower 48 states, government scientists said in a report Wednesday. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said bald eagles, the national symbol that once teetered on the brink of extinction, have flourished in recent years, growing to more than 71,400 nesting pairs and an estimated 316,700 individual birds. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, in her first public appearance since being sworn in last week, hailed the eagle’s recovery and noted that the majestic, white-headed bird has always been considered sacred to Native American tribes and the United States generally. “The strong return of this treasured bird reminds us of our...
You’re reading The Waugh Zone, our daily politics briefing. Sign up now to get it by email in the evening. When politicians appear to defend the bureaucracy of a system rather than the needs of the public, they can sound tone deaf. When that defence involves matters of life and death, they risk coming across as robotic at best, callous at worst. So it’s not hard to imagine that if Welsh first minister Mark Drakeford were a Tory minister, he would have got a right royal kicking from Labour. Why? Well, Drakeford tried to defend the lower vaccination rate in Wales by arguing that it would be “logistically very damaging” to try to use up all its stocks of the...
