Jim Cramer, the zany host of CNBC's Mad Money investment show and a regular contributor to investment website TheStreet.com, tagged a couple of companies in the security industry as his "best of breed" in American manufacturing.
Cramer's list, which looked at U.S. manufacturing companies of excellence, tapped United Technologies (owners of Lenel, Chubb and Kidde in our industry) was marked as a well-diversified company that has its markets well-planted and well distributed, from fire and security, to aerospace, elevators, and air conditioning.
Also on the seemingly-frazzled host's list was Ingersoll-Rand, a manufacturing powerhouse that not only features Schlage, Recognition Systems and Dor-O-Matic, but which is also diversified in manufacturing and industrial equipment, and even refrigerated trucks.
Besides these two companies invested in security, Cramer's end-of-January show also tapped Fluor, Foster-Wheeler, Halliburton, Cummins, Caterpillar, Deere, Boeing, and even Toyota because the Japanese company manufacturers vehicles locally in the U.S.
