Fairchild 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.

Fairchild is the older of the two, founded in 1925 — 24 years before Heckler & Koch.

Founded: 1925; 1949
Status: Closed 2003; Active
Headquarters: San Antonio, United States; Oberndorf am Neckar, Germany
Industry: weapons industry; weapons industry
Founders: Sherman Fairchild; Alex Seidel, Edmund Heckler, Theodor Koch
Employees: Not recorded; 923
Legal form: Not recorded; Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung
Website: Not recorded; heckler-koch.com

Facts on both companies come from the public records named on Fairchild and Heckler & Koch.