Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. Appoints Rhonda Gass, Chief Information Officer, A Corporate Executive Officer
October 22, 2012 at 02:00 pm
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Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. announced that Rhonda Gass, Chief Information Officer, has been named an Executive Officer of the Corporation. Rhonda joined Stanley Black & Decker as CIO in September, having most recently served as Vice President of IT Strategy, Technology and Governance for Dell Corporation, where she held positions of increasing scope for more than a decade. As Chief Information Officer, Rhonda will be responsible for all aspects of the company's information technology activities, including IT strategy, the Stanley Fulfillment System's (SFS) Common Platforms initiative, web and e-commerce development, technology infrastructure and operations.
She will also support the company's business teams with IT subject matter expertise with respect to their supply chain and go-to-market strategies, as well as their overall business model development. Rhonda will continue to build on the progress made within the company's IT organization by Bert Davis, Senior Vice President and President of Stanley Healthcare Solutions who will now focus on growing the emerging Healthcare business.
Stanley Black & Decker, Inc. specializes in the design, manufacturing and marketing of tools and engineering solutions for professional, industrial and construction and consumer use. Net sales break down by family of products as follows:
- electric tools and accessories (71.1%): tools and electric devices (drills wire, sanders, saws, grinders, batteries, etc.), garden tools (shears, cutting edge, trimmers, aerators , grinders, chainsaws, etc.), vacuum cleaners, lamps, lights, battery chargers, starter batteries, power converters, hand tools (measuring and leveling tools, planes, hammers, knives, blades, screwdrivers, saws, etc.), consumer mechanics tools (wrenches and sockets), plastic tool boxes, pneumatic tools and fasteners (nail guns, staplers, staples, etc.);
- industrial products (16.2%): professional and automotive mechanics tools (wrenches, sockets, electronic diagnostic tools, etc.), storage systems, plumbing, heating and air conditioning tools (pipe wrenches, pliers, tubing cutters, etc.), hydraulic tools, etc.;
- access and security products (12.7%): automatic doors, door closers, emergency exit devices, locking mechanisms, integrated security devices, etc.
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: the United States (60.5%), Canada (4.7%), Americas (4.2%), France (4%), Europe (19.2%) and Asia (7.4%).
STANLEY BLACK & DECKER, INC. 
