Throughout the 1950s and ’60s, Midwest Tool continued to grow due to the quality of the tools.
Midwest Tool & Cutlery Company (Midwest Tool) is celebrating its 75th anniversary. It was in July 1945, when WWII was ending, and material became easily available, that Midwest Tool made their first shipment. The following year Midwest Tool landed their dream customer, Sears, Roebuck and Company.
Back then, Midwest Tool was strictly an OEM private label tool company focused on manufacturing scissors, tinners, gardening shears and other related hand tools for Sears under the Craftsman brand as well as other, now major tool brands.