In 1972 the company was purchased by Staveley Industries Plc and was split into separate subsidiaries: housewares, industrial, etc., relocating as required. In the late 1980s and early 1990s Staveley acquired more businesses worldwide to form a new "weighing group", including the Weigh-Tronix company of America, and in 1998 after a
management buyout (MBO), this became the Weigh-Tronix Corporation, with Salter Housewares a part of that. The focus of the new corporation was increasingly towards industrial or commercial weighing, and in February 2002 the management team at Salter Housewares Ltd. bought the company out from the group to concentrate on its consumer businesses. The MBO was backed by Barclays Private Equity to the sum of £18 million (€28m). The company grew rapidly for the next two years, and in March 2004 it was sold to HoMedics, a US-based manufacturer of "personal wellness" products, generating an
internal rate of return (IRR) of approximately 70% for Barclays Private Equity. Salter began a partnership with chef
Heston Blumenthal in 2010. Salter’s design team work alongside Blumenthal’s team from
the Fat Duck kitchens to develop a range of precision weighing instruments. In 2011,
Greater Manchester based consumer goods giant Ultimate Products Global Sourcing licensed the Salter Brand to sell electrical cookware, bakeware, food prep and small domestic appliances. Ultimate Products announced the £34m acquisition of the Salter brand in July 2021. ==See also==