Since then, it has continued opening stores, manufacturing more diverse tools, and selling through mail order and the internet.

Lee Valley Tools is notable for enforcing and codifying the concept of “pay slope”[2] limiting the pay at the highest levels in the company based on what the lowest paid employees earn.

The consumer part of the business runs under the main company name, Lee Valley Tools.

Lee Valley also has a manufacturing arm, called Veritas Tools.

Veritas makes many woodworking hand-tools, including hand planes, marking gauges and other measuring tools, router tables, sharpening systems, and numerous other gadgets.