Talk:Assa Abloy/Archives/2013

"World's leading manufacturer and supplier of locks"? Advertising!
This claim in the article's introduction already had a Citation Neededtag on it. And, it's just plain old advertising! The claim is one the company makes itself. Most companies out there try to pump themselves up/advertise themselves as No. 1 (i.e. World's leading company at what they do (or just "world's leading company". You know how it goes. :-)). With the huge number of companies of every profession out there worldwide, not really any "world's leading" claim can be really backed up.

I deleted the claim on September 13 (see the article's history tab), and only a few minutes later, User:Petri Krohn reverted my edit, without providing a link to any Wikipedia policies or anything that would back up his restoration of the claim. So now I have restored my edit and posted this to back it up. Regards. [|Retro00064|&#9742;talk|&#x270D;contribs|] 02:10, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * It is clearly the world's largest lock-maker, so it is not simply a case of the company pumping itself up. I have added an independent reference to support. Gr1st (talk) 07:48, 29 September 2010 (UTC)
 * There is a difference in "world's leading company" and "world's largest company". World's Leading means your the No. 1 company out there, and better than everyone else. World's Largest means your simply the largest company, with more money and more products coming out of your factories. I was referring to "world's leading", not "world's largest". World's Largest with source is OK, but World's Leading is something that is extremely hard, if not impossible, to prove. [|Retro00064|&#9742;talk|&#x270D;contribs|] 04:25, 30 September 2010 (UTC)

ASSA ABLOY has only ever helped a small minority in their global business role! Its the worlds leading company only by sloppiness and overpriced locks that will eventually dissolve into the more competent Asian and European Locksmith Manufactures! It is part of what gives globalization a bad name! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 196.44.148.250 (talk) 07:08, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

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The name "Abloy" is interesting because 80% of its letters come from abbreviations of the term "limited company", and only one single letter from what the company actually does. Even though they "oy" part comes from completely native Finnish, most Finns find it difficult to pronounce as one syllable, because it breaks vowel harmony. It is more natural to pronounce it as "abloi", but this breaks the Finnish rule of every letter always being pronounced the same way. J I P | Talk 22:12, 24 February 2009 (UTC)

I used Abloy disc tumbler locks and keys in 1979, so more information and links in the history for Abloy Oy would be welcome. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 22yearswothanks (talk • contribs) 04:16, 22 May 2010 (UTC)