Founded in 1996, with 39 employees and headquarters in Houston, Texas, the focus of Ringers Gloves has been on creating high performing, task-specific work gloves that advance hand safety technology. Beyond the Company’s broad portfolio of gloves designed to serve the unique needs of customers worldwide, Ringers Gloves offer value add programs such as work site assessments to help their customers achieve compliance goals and improve their safety records. Ringers Gloves recently expanded into specialty glove segments and acquired Valeo Technologies, LLC, including Valeo Safety Performance Workwear, which has further expanded their offering and position globally.
Ringers Gloves are uniquely designed for use in demanding environments and applications and have a track record of introducing customer-focused, innovative new products to meet unique customer and industry needs. Click here to visit the Ringers Gloves website.
This acquisition is a key opportunity for Ansell to acquire a top specialty hand protection provider with a leading position in the oil and gas sector and support Ansell’s expansion in the specialty, thermal and impact protection segment, in addition to enhancing our position in the oil & gas industry. The acquisition also serves as another step toward building Ansell’s overall hand protection business, especially for oil & gas workers, as part of the Ansell Industrial Global Business Unit.
“Ringers Gloves are uniquely designed for use in demanding environments”
“The acquisition of Ringers Gloves is consistent with Ansell’s growth strategy as we look to strengthen our market leadership position across the full range of industrial hand protection needs,” says Magnus Nicolin, Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director at Ansell. “Acquiring Ringers will advance Ansell’s safety protection solutions platform, creating a leading position in the important and growing specialty category of impact protection gloves. Ansell has a track record of achieving accelerated growth from highly synergistic strategic acquisitions where the acquired business can be rapidly developed through leveraging Ansell’s global sales reach and strength of customer relationships, and Ringers presents an excellent new opportunity for us.”
The acquisition will offer Ringers’ existing customers access to Ansell’s world-class Mechanical, Chemical, Single Use and Body Protection solutions. Ansell customers should expect to realize significant long-term value through the combination of Ringers Gloves’ noted strengths with the industry-leading innovation capability, global reach, and broad product range of Ansell.