Company type | Private |
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Industry | Electrical components, Switches |
Founded | 1888 |
Defunct | 1988 |
Fate | Acquired by Hubbell Incorporated |
Successor | Hubbell Incorporated |
Headquarters | Bridgeport, Connecticut |
Key people | Waldo Calvin Bryant, Founder |
Number of employees | 1,600 |
Parent | Westinghouse Electric Corporation (1901-1927) |
The Bryant Electric Company was a manufacturer of wiring devices, electrical components, and switches founded in 1888 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. It grew to become for a time both the world's largest plant devoted to the manufacture of wiring devices and Bridgeport's largest employer and was involved in a number of notable strikes, before being closed in 1988 and having its remaining interests sold to Hubbell in 1991.[1][2]