Carlisle Companies, Inc. is a Charlotte, North Carolina-based diversified manufacturing company serving construction materials, commercial roofing, specialty tire and wheel, power transmission, heavy-duty brake and friction, heavy-haul truck trailer, foodservice and data transmission industries. Carlisle Companies Incorporated began in 1917, when Charles S. Moomy opened Carlisle Tire and Rubber Company in Carlisle, Pennsylvania to sell inner tubes to Montgomery Ward and Company. With thirty employees working ten-hour days, Carlisle Tire and Rubber Company began producing automobile inner... tubes. The Company continued to grow and prosper through the 1920s. With the Stock Market crash of 1929 and the beginning of the Depression, Carlisle Tire and Rubber, like most other companies during that era, found itself in a desperate struggle to stay afloat. Near the end of the 1930s, in order to avoid bankruptcy, Moomy turned all of his common and preferred stock over to the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia which by then, as the largest shareholder, had control of the company. The end of the depression and the beginning of World War II forced changes upon the rubber industry.
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| NYSE symbol: | CSL |
| Founded: | 1917 |
| Headquarters: | Charlotte, North Carolina |
| Annual revenue: | $2,971,400,000 |
| Net income: | $55,800,000 |
| Operating income: | $244,900,000 |
| Market cap: | $2,400,000,000 |
| Industries: | Rubber Product Manufacturing, Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing, Food, Manufacturing |