i remember that est was owned by otis
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Yes, and both companies are now owned by United Technologies.
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also kidde
And previously, EST was owned by General Electric.
We’re getting off topic here, let’s stay on track.
Major bump here… but after a lot of digging I finally figured out how this happened and why they ended up rebranding a direct competitor’s products.
Siemens-branded EST equipment is a holdover from back when Landis & Gyr - a Swiss company with several divisions, including building control - dabbled into the fire alarm market in the US with rebranded EST/FAST equipment. Landis & Gyr had started operating in the US when it acquired Powers (a Chicago-based building control company) in the 1980’s, and would sometimes use “Landis & Gyr Powers” cobranding.
In the mid-1990’s, Landis & Gyr was bought by another Swiss conglomerate known as Elektrowatt. Elektrowatt also owned Cerberus.
Interesting details (available in German only - if you need a translation, go to DeepL which has a reasonably-effective PDF translation option): https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m692_de.pdf
Elektrowatt would be purchased by Siemens just a few years later. (A few more years later, the non-building divisions of Landis & Gyr - such as utility meters - would be spun off from Siemens.)
Interesting details: https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/cases/decisions/m913_19971118_600_en.pdf
There is a landis and gyr rebranded siga-278 on eBay for $179 bucks, the front of the box says , landis and Staefa, but it says landis and gyr on the pull station it’s self