In 2002, the company's employees purchased the company from its 96 investors.

He was 14 at the time his father purchased the company, and had worked as a Watkins salesman for many years.

In 1970, with 12 others, he purchased the company and helped expand.

In June 1998, a group of transit industry executives purchased the company.

In 1961, he purchased the company from the brothers for $2.7 million.

Five years later, he purchased the company with a partner.

The owner would not sell him the bell unless he purchased the whole company.

In 1995, Mark and his brother Jim purchased the company from their father.

He headed the group of investors that purchased the company in 1959.

Skelly later purchased the entire company on June 28, 1928.