Who owns AMES?
AMES is owned by Griffon (the United States, NYSE: GFF).[1]
Evidence: Griffon Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-19, SEC EDGAR, 19 November 2025. Verified from filings; last checked .
Key facts
- Current owner
- Griffon Corporation verified
- Owner HQ
- 🇺🇸 United States, New York
- Origin
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Founded
- 1774
- Category
- Home, garden & DIY › Home improvement › Lawn & garden
- Parent ticker
- NYSE: GFF
- Last verified
- · 1 sources
About AMES
AMES is a lawn and garden tools brand that Griffon's 10-K says was founded in Massachusetts in 1774. It sits in the Consumer and Professional Products segment, where it is sold in North America, Australia, New Zealand, the UK and Ireland. The Ames Companies, Inc. is a Delaware subsidiary with Australian, New Zealand and UK affiliates.
What Griffon's annual report says about AMES
Sentences about AMES from Griffon's latest annual filing[1], copied word for word.
On July 1, 2024, Griffon announced that its subsidiary, The AMES Companies, Inc., ("AMES") expanded the scope of its Australian operations by acquiring substantially all the assets of Pope, a leading Australian provider of residential watering products, from The Toro Company (NYSE:TTC) for a purchase price of approximately AUD 21,800 (approximately $14,500) in cash.
This is CPP's seventh acquisition in Australia since 2013, and further expands AMES's product portfolio in the Australian market.
AMES, founded in Massachusetts in 1774, has the distinction of being one of the oldest companies in continuous operation in the United States.
How often Griffon names AMES in its annual report
A plain count of the times the name appears in the text of each annual report, not counting the start of a sentence. A brand that an owner writes about more is usually one it treats as central. The brand is named less often than it was three years earlier.
Ownership timeline of AMES
Where AMES sits in Griffon
Controlling ownership as of . Brands grouped under the entity that owns them; large groups are collapsed.
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Other brands owned by Griffon
Griffon controls 5 brands on Brandtree, 5 of them in home, garden & diy.
Also in home, garden & diy
Other brands in lawn & garden, and who owns them
The 29 brands in lawn & garden on Brandtree belong to 17 owners. The largest is Bioceres, with 5; Griffon has 2.
| Brand | Owner | Owner based in |
|---|---|---|
| Bioceres Semillas | Bioceres | 🇦🇷 Argentina |
| Flymo | Husqvarna Group | 🇸🇪 Sweden |
| Hayter | Toro | 🇺🇸 United States |
| Dolphin | Maytronics | 🇮🇱 Israel |
| Miracle-Gro | Scotts Miracle-Gro | 🇺🇸 United States |
| BASF Agricultural Solutions | BASF | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Roundup | Bayer | 🇩🇪 Germany |
| Pennington | Central Garden & Pet | 🇺🇸 United States |
About the owner: Griffon
Griffon is a publicly listed company headquartered in New York, United States. Brandtree records 5 brands under its control, and it is listed as NYSE: GFF.
Griffon Corporation is a New York holding company with two segments, Home and Building Products (Clopay garage doors) and Consumer and Professional Products (AMES tools, Hunter Fan, ClosetMaid and others). This page lists only the brands whose origins its fiscal 2025 10-K or subsidiary list supports. Its Pope brand was bought from The Toro Company in 2024.
🇺🇸 AMES and other American brands
Brandtree records a controlling owner for 2,399 brands that began in the United States. 461 of them (19%) are now controlled by a company headquartered in another country; AMES is not one of them.
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Frequently asked questions
Who is the parent company of AMES?
The parent company of AMES is Griffon, a publicly listed company headquartered in the United States.
Is AMES American?
Yes. AMES originated in the United States in 1774 and its owner, Griffon, is also headquartered in the United States.
Is AMES still owned by Griffon?
Yes. As of 9 October 2026, AMES is still owned by Griffon. The ownership record was last checked against primary sources on that date.
Sources (1) & corrections
Last verified . Every ownership fact above is backed by one of these primary documents. Numbers in brackets in the text refer to this list.
- [1] Griffon Corporation Annual Report on Form 10-K filed 2025-11-19 — SEC EDGAR, SEC Form 10-K, published 19 November 2025; retrieved 4 October 2026.
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