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Colt's Manufacturing Company vs Heckler & Koch

Side by side, from the public record each company was imported from. Where a figure is missing it is because no source we hold states it — not because it is zero.

Colt's Manufacturing Company is the older of the two, founded in 1855 — 94 years before Heckler & Koch.

Founded
1855
1949
Status
Active
Active
Headquarters
West Hartford, United States
Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany
Industry
weapons industry
weapons industry
Employees
Not recorded
923
Legal form
privately held company
Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
Parent
Colt CZ Group
Not recorded

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Colt's Manufacturing Company and Heckler & Koch.