Tyco International
1962 Arthur J. Rosenburg incorporated Tyco, Inc. Having been doing experimental work for the government, the focus changed to high-tech products for the commercial sector.
1964 The company went public.
1965 Acquired Mule Battery Manufacturing Company; name changed to Tyco Laboratories, Inc.
1974 Tyco listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Acquired Simplex Wire and Cable Company.
1975 Acquired the Grinnell subsidiary of International Telephone and Telegraph.
1979 Acquired Armin Corporation.
1981 Acquired Ludlow Corporation.
1982 Reorganised into three divisions: fire protection and plumbing, electronics, and packaging.
1986 Purchased Grinnell Flow Control from ITT.
1987 Acquired Allied Pipe & Tube Corporation.
1988 Acquired Mueller Company.
1990 Acquired Wormald
1993 Name changed to Tyco International Ltd.
1994 Acquired Kendall International.
1997 Acquired the undersea cable-laying and maintenance operations of AT&T Corp. Also acquired Keystone International Inc., and Bermuda-based ADT Limited. Tyco merged into ADT, becoming a Bermuda-domiciled firm.
1998 Acquired American Home Products' Sherwood-Davis & Geck division and United States Surgical Corporation.
1999 acquired AMP Incorporated and Raychem Corporation.
2000 Acquired the global electronics connectors business of Thomas & Betts Corporation, Lucent Technologies Inc.'s power-systems division, and Mallinckrodt Inc.
2001 Acquired CIT Group, Inc.
2002 Split off CIT Group through a public offering.
2003 Divested more than 50 non-core businesses.
Tyco International was a security systems company incorporated in the Republic of Ireland, with operational headquarters in Princeton, New Jersey, United States (Tyco International (US) Inc.). Tyco International was composed of two major business segments: security solutions and fire protection.
2016 Merged with Johnson Controls and became Johnson Controls International