Hobart, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch - as well as 10 other locations in Australia and New Zealand with 'Resident Representatives' or 'Resident Engineers'. In 1974, the company, now known as Wormald International Limited, acquired Mather & Platt, whose fire-protection products began Wormald's business nearly a century earlier. In 1990, Wormald International, valued at US$1 billion, was itself purchased by Princeton, New Jersey-based Tyco International - becoming part of its Boca Raton, Florida-based fire protection division that included Grinnell Mechanical Products (the company whose fire sprinklers Mather & Platt had licensed to be distributed by Wormald in 1889). On 4 December 2015, Tyco International's fire-protection business in Australia (encompassing Wormald, National Fire Solutions, GAAM Emergency Products, Exegard and Simplex Time Solutions) was acquired by New York City-based private equity firm Evergreen Capital, LLC. Evergreen Capital had formed an Australasian business relationship with Tyco, having previously acquired Tyco's fire and security operations in Fiji (including the rights to the Wormald brand there) two years previously and purchasing Armourguard, Tyco's New Zealand security division, for a nominal NZ$1 in 2014. The sale was completed on 29 January 2016. The new owners have returned Wormald to local management, claiming that "the sale presents an exciting opportunity for the Wormald business to return to its roots and benefit from a more flexible, less centralised business structure...with a renewed focus on regional-based decision making to provide our customers with...trusted local service". References Manufacturing companies established in 1889 Privately held companies of Australia Australian companies established in 1889