About Salter
High Value Brand
For many years the UK's No.1 brand for domestic weighing scales
has been Salter Housewares Ltd (with currently around 40% market
share). They have become renowned for their quality, and with a 10
year guarantee on all their scales, Salter certainly go further than
the rest showing their confidence in just how good Salter scales
are.
Early History
Salter Housewares itself began life in the late 1700s in the
village of Bilston, England. At this time Richard Salter, a spring
maker, began making 'pocket steelyards', a scale similar to the
fisherman's scale of today.
By 1825 his nephew George had taken over the company, which
became known as George Salter & Co. and later established a large,
well equipped manufacturing site in the town of West Bromwich.
From here the company produced a wide variety of scales including
the UK's first bathroom scale. Other items were added to the range,
including irons, mincers, potato chippers, coin-operated machines
and another 'first' for the UK, the typewriter.
Then a major employer in the area, the company offered advanced
social facilities to its staff, including a works football team,
from which developed the club known today as West Bromwich Albion!
The business thrived throughout the 1900s and by 1950 employed
over 2000 people, still in the same area and owned by the same
family. Then, in 1972 the company was purchased by Staveley
Industries Plc and was split into separate subsidiaries, housewares,
industrial etc. relocating as required.
Combining Forces
In the late 1980s, and early 90s Staveley acquired more
businesses world-wide to form a new 'weighing group' including the
Weigh-Tronix company of America, and in 1998 after a management buy
out, this became the Weigh-Tronix Corporation, with Salter
Housewares a part of that. The focus of the new corporation however
was increasingly towards industrial or commercial weighing, so on
February 7th 2002, the management team at Salter Housewares Ltd,
backed by Barclays Private Equity, bought the company out from the
group, to concentrate on it's consumer businesses.
So rapid was the growth over the next two years that the company
became an attractive acquisition target, and consequently on 31st
March 2004 was sold to the US-based HoMedics company, leaders in the
"personal wellness" product category.
Located in the UK, USA, & Canada, with distribution to over 100
countries world-wide, and now part of the highly successful HoMedics
group the company is now set for continued global growth and product
extension towards its "Living with Salter" concept.
Salter products available from dietandfitnessresources.co.uk:
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Salter
Salter 1250 Electronic Diet Scale
Salter 1440 Nutri-Weigh & Go Scale
Salter 1450 Nutri-Weigh Dietary Computer
Salter
9155 Goal Weight Scale
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