GFF Stock Discussion

Griffon Corporation Description

Griffon Corporation, through its subsidiaries, manufactures and markets residential, commercial, and industrial garage doors to professional installing dealers and home center retail chains in the United States and internationally. It offers insulated flush panel steel garage doors, wood doors, window frames, grilles, inserts, and decorative hardware. The company also engages in manufacturing non-powered landscaping products for homeowners and professionals, including long handle tools, wheelbarrows, planters and lawn accessories, snow tools, striking tools, pruning tools, and garden hoses and hose reels; and embossed, laminated, and printed specialty plastic films that are used in hygienic, health-care, and industrial applications. In addition, it offers electronic information and communication systems for defense, aerospace, civil, industrial, and commercial applications, including aircraft intercommunication systems, radars, air traffic management systems, identification friend or foe equipment, and Integrated Homeland Security systems, as well as custom, mixed-signal, application-specific, and integrated circuits. The company sells its products through a direct sales force primarily to multinational consumer and medical products companies; and a network of distributors. Griffon Corporation was incorporated in 1959 and is headquartered in New York, New York.

Sector: Basic Materials
Industry: Building Materials
Keywords: Aerospace Integrated Circuits Retail Chain Communication Systems Homeland Security Radar Medical Products Security Systems Traffic Management Planters Hose Reel Homeland Security Systems Plastic Film Plastic Films Traffic Management Systems