Standard Motor Products, Inc. sells its products to warehouse distributors and auto parts retail chains around the world, under its own brand names such as Standard, BWD Automotive, Blue Streak Automotive, Blue Streak Wire, TechSmart, Intermotor, Factory Air, and Four Seasons, as well as under private labels for key customers.
Standard Motor Products was founded in Manhattan in 1919 as a partnership between Elias Fife, a Jewish immigrant from Lithuania,[2] and Ralph Van Allen.
[3] Standard Motor Products had its Initial public offering in 1960[3] and was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 1977.
The space was previously a manufacturing site producing items like distributor caps, but because of modern engine designs the workforce there dwindled over the years.
The remaining Long Island City manufacturing operations were moved to its plant in Reynosa, Mexico, and Independence, Kansas.
[8] On July 29, 2009, Chairman Sills rang the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange to celebrate the company's 90th anniversary.
The company's own brands include Standard, BWD/NIEHOFF, Intermotor, OEM, LockSmart, TechSmart, and GP Sorensen for engine management and Four Seasons, Factory Air, EVERCO, ACi, Imperial, COMPRESSORWORKS, TORQFLO, and Hayden for temperature control.