Black & Decker, Stanley deal has history 

Posted: 11:11 am Tue, November 3, 2009
By Danielle Ulman

The seeds of the marriage between Black & Decker Corp. and The Stanley Works were sown nearly three decades ago. Black & Decker’s CEO Nolan D. Archibald said in a conference call with analysts Tuesday morning that leaders at the companies had met three different times over a 28-year period to see if a merger might ...