Calling all spinoff lovers – it’s time to get your hard hats on because the end of this month is going to be crazy. Just call it the ‘Summer of Spin’. In the somewhat improbable five plus years we have been running this site (and I am willing to bet over the course of history), there has never… Read More »
TriMas(TRS) has had a long and winding road as a company. It originally began life as Campbell Industries, headed up by former Masco(MAS) executive Brian Campbell. Masco backed Campbell and sold many of its smaller manufacturing businesses to Campbell, resulting in a name change to TriMas. TriMas, owned largely by Masco, continued to acquire manufacturing assets until its… Read More »
Catching up on some news from the end of last year, TriMas Corporation (TRS) announced plans to spinoff its Cequent segments, which provide custom-engineered towing, trailer and cargo management products, into a standalone company. Post-spinoff, TriMas will be a more focused, diversified engineered products company. Love seeing the phrases ‘more focused’ and ‘diversified’ being used together like that, but… Read More »