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The company now known as KCI was founded in Baltimore County, Maryland, in 1955 in the basement of one of its cofounders. In 1977, the company was purchased by industrial products conglomerate Walter Kidde & Company and was subsequently merged with three other architectural and engineering firms into an engineering subsidiary that came to be known as Kidde Consultants Inc., or KCI. In 1987, Kidde was purchased by Hanson Trust PLC, a British manufacturing company with diversified holdings worldwide.
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Street, V.L., Weer, C.H., Shipper, F. (2014). KCI Technologies, Inc.: Engineering the Future, One Employee at a Time. In: Shipper, F. (eds) Shared Entrepreneurship. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137405807_14
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