Go to updated and illustrated post. __1887: __Harry Soref is born. The inventor will miniaturize the security of a bank vault into the everyday padlock. As a young man, Soref earned his living as a ...

MILWAUKEE - Master Lock's manufacturing facility in Milwaukee will begin closing this fall, the company confirmed Thursday, May 25, with operations ending in March 2024. A union representative said ...

In 1921, Russian-Jewish immigrant Harry Soref approached his family for startup money for his new brand. He wanted to sell improved locks, he told them. "Lox?" they said (Yiddish for smoked salmon.) ...

There are many sites around Milwaukee that were once home to large, buzzing industrial centers, employing hundreds, sometimes thousands of neighborhood folks, and we lament their shuttering and the ...

Master Lock’s world headquarters in Oak Creek is closing, affecting the 100-plus employees who work at the facility. The announcement comes less than a year after Master Lock’s Milwaukee plant closed ...