Ideal Standard
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Ideal Standard International is a privately-held multinational plumbing fixture company based in Brussels, Belgium. Principally owned by Bain Capital Partners, it operates throughout the world except in North America where the formerly affiliated American Standard Brands operates which Bain Capital Partners has a minority stake in.
[edit] History
The company was originally founded as the National Radiator Company in Kingston upon Hull in 1936 [1]
"(W)hile at first glance its factory, like the city, may be tarnished with age and lack the shine of its modern European equivalents it's still there and, also like its hometown, it's trying to find its place in a new global manufacturing environment." [2]
It is also the name of a renowned athletics club.
