Conair Corporation is an American company based in Stamford, Connecticut, which sells small appliances, personal care products, and health and beauty products for both professionals and consumers.
It is majority-owned by private equity firm American Securities, with some minority stakes held by family members of founder Leandro Rizzuto.[2]
History
Founded in 1959 in a garage in Queens, New York,[3] Conair started out by selling hair rollers and then hair dryers. It continued to expand, and became a public company in 1972, but then went private again after a leveraged buyout in 1985.[4] It was owned by the co-founder and chairman Leandro Rizzuto until his death in 2017.