Johnson Controls

Johnson Controls International plc is a public company listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Its world headquarters is in Cork, Ireland, and its North American operational headquarters is in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Warren Johnson founded the business in Milwaukee in 1885 as Johnson Electric Service Company to make automatic temperature controls for buildings, and it took the Johnson Controls name in 1974.

The company sells to commercial, industrial, institutional, government and data center customers, and its brands include YORK, Metasys, Silent-Aire, Simplex and Grinnell. It acquired York International in 2005 and has properties in almost 60 countries. It runs its own data center at its campus in Glendale, Wisconsin. At the end of fiscal 2025 it employed about 87,000 people, about 31,000 of them in the United States.

Johnson Controls History:

• In July 2025, Johnson Controls sold its residential and light commercial HVAC business to Robert Bosch GmbH.
• In March 2025, Joakim Weidemanis became chief executive officer.
• In September 2016, Johnson Controls, Inc. merged with Tyco International plc, and the combined company took the name Johnson Controls International plc.
• Founded in 1885 in Milwaukee.