fortune brands home & security inc. type public company traded as nyse fbhs s & p 400 midcap index founded 2011 headquarters deerfield illinois key people christopher klein president & ceo 1 products fixtures hardware revenue us 3.33 billion fy 2012 2 net income tba fy 2012 2 total assets us 3.64 billion fy 2012 2 total equity us 2.12 billion fy 2012 2 website www.fbhs.com fortune brands home & security inc. fbhs is an american manufacturer of home fixtures and hardware headquartered in deerfield illinois . the company s product lines include master lock sentry safe masterbrand cabinets moen faucets therma tru entry door systems and waterloo tool storage products . 3 the company has said that it holds market leadership positions in all of its segments and has 16 000 associates that generated more than 3.6 billion in net sales in 2012 . 3 fortune brands home & security was created on october 3 2011 from part of the former fortune brands holding company . 3 the spin off was related to the pre announced corporate strategy of divesting unrelated product lines to focus on the liquor business . 4 5 on the day after spinning off fbhs fortune brands renamed itself as beam inc. to reflect this new strategy . 6 beam inc. was subsequently purchased by suntory to become its beam suntory subsidiary in april 2014 . 7 8 fbhs is included in the s & p midcap 400 index . 2 on october 18 2011 it was announced that pershing square capital management owned a 15 % stake in the company and considered its stock to be a very attractive investment . 9 references edit leadership executive committee . fortune brands home & security . a b c d e fortune brands home & security fbhs key statistics . yahoo finance . a b c fortune brands home & security now independent begins trading on nyse businesswire october 4 2011 . smith a. jim beam neat is company s new strategy cnn money december 8 2010 . fortune brands announces intent to separate company s three businesses the wall street journal december 8 2010 . beam inc. begins life as a pure play spirits industry leader businesswire october 4 2011 . beam suntory suntory press release april 30 2014 . suntory still has m & a thirst the wall street journal may 15 2014 . gammeltoft n. and fineman j. ackman says pershing square owns 15 % of fortune brands home bloomberg oct. 18 2011 . external links edit official website retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title fortune brands home % 26 security & oldid 681667326 categories companies listed on the new york stock exchangecompanies based in deerfield illinoishidden categories pages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages fran ais edit links this page was last modified on 18 september 2015 at 17 55 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view