Stanley hand tools are a long established and award winning producer of quality hand tools. Since 1857 they have been manufacturing measuring equipment and began making all type of hand tools in the 1920s.

Over the years, The Stanley Works has produced some of the most innovative and useful tools ever made. Among these tools are the Bailey® Plane, the PowerLock tape measure and most recently the FatMax line of products. In 1936 they created the first ever utility knife that would eventually lead to the famous “Stanley knife” 99e model. The design of which has not changed since 1961. 1999 Saw the introduction of the Fatmax tape measure, today rivalled by the new Ultra Compact Fatmax Tape measure range.