started 1944
Connecticut, Missouri

• 1892 Founded in East Alton, IL by Frank W. Olin
  – blasting powder for coal mines
• 1898 Franklin Olin formed the Western Cartridge Company
  – competitors got suppliers to limit raw materials
  – Olin diversified
• 1931 Western bought the Winchester Company.
• 1935 formed Winchester-Western
• 1944 Franklin Olin companies organized under Olin Industries, Inc
• 1954 Olin Industries and Mathieson Chemical merged
  – Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation
• 1963 John Olin retired
• 1964  “re-tooled” the Winchester line, which damaged their reputation of quality
• 1969 became the Olin Corporation
  – sold off many of its acquired businesses
•  December 12, 1980  Olin sold Winchester firearms to the employees
  – with the name US Repeating Arms Company
  – Olin kept the Winchester brand and licensed it to US Repeating Arms Company
  
•  2006 entered a new license with Browning Arms Company
  – to make Winchester rifles and shotguns
• World’s number one chlorine producer
• #1 producer of small ammunition globally