Smith & Wesson
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Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. is an active legal entity established in 1852. The organization is based in Springfield, United States, and operates under the jurisdiction of Nevada. Its official website is smith-wesson.com, and it maintains a social media following of 273,000.
The company’s title page identifies its products as pistols, revolvers, and rifles. The entity is referenced by 587 other encyclopedia articles.
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Key facts
- Company type
- Public
- Traded as
- Nasdaq : SWBI
- Industry
- Manufacturing Arms industry
- Founded
- 1852 ; 174 years ago ( 1852 )
- Founders
- Horace Smith Daniel B. Wesson
- Headquarters
- Maryville, Tennessee , United States
- Key people
- Mark P. Smith ( president & CEO ) Deana L. McPherson ( CFO ) Robert L. Scott ( chairman )
- Products
- Firearms and ammunition
- Revenue
- US$ 535.8 million (2024)
- Operating income
- US$44.78 million (2024)
- Net income
- US$39.61 million (2024)
- Total assets
- US$578.0 million (2024)
- Total equity
- US$398.2 million (2024)
- Number of employees
- 1,509 (2023)
- Website
- smith-wesson .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Official website
Smith & Wesson | Pistols, Revolvers, and Rifles
Since 1852 we’ve been an industry leading manufacturer of pistols, revolvers, rifles, and shooting accessories. We continue to bring innovative firearms to market that meet the needs of every shooter and deliver on exceptional quality with a brand you’ve learned to trust.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- public company
- Country
- United States
- Founded by
- Daniel B. Wesson
- Headquarters
- Springfield
- Subsidiary
- Thompson Center Arms
- Industry
- weapons industry
- Stock exchange
- Nasdaq
- Official website
- www.smith-wesson.com
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- Commons category
- Smith & Wesson
- native label
- Smith & Wesson
- topic's main category
- Category:Smith & Wesson
- inception
- 1852-01-01
- product or material produced
- firearm
- has works in the collection
- Dutch Resistance Museum
- social media followers
- 273000
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Encyclopedic overview
Smith & Wesson Brands, Inc. (S&W) is an American firearm manufacturer headquartered in Maryville, Tennessee, United States.
Smith & Wesson was founded by Horace Smith and Daniel B. Wesson as the "Smith & Wesson Revolver Company" in 1856, after their previous company, also called the "Smith & Wesson Company" and later renamed as "Volcanic Repeating Arms", was sold to Oliver Winchester and became the Winchester Repeating Arms Company. The modern Smith & Wesson had been previously owned by Bangor Punta and Tomkins plc before being acquired by Saf-T-Hammer Corporation in 2001. Smith & Wesson was a unit of American Outdoor Brands Corporation from 2016 to 2020 until the company was spun out in 2020.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Smith & Wesson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.