Federal Signal Corporation, founded in 1901, is a manufacturer and worldwide supplier of safety, signaling and communications equipment, fire rescue products, street sweeping and vacuum loader vehicles, refuse truck bodies, high-performance water blasting equipment, parking control equipment, carbide and superhard tipped cutting tools, precision metal stamping punches and components for plastic injection molds. The company is managed on a decentralized basis and comprises the following four major operating groups: Environmental Products, Safety Products, Tool and Fire Rescue.

Federal Signal's mission is to be the leading innovator, manufacturer and marketer of selected products and services in diverse worldwide industrial market niches.

Federal Signal's key strategies are:

-Continually and rapidly improve our businesses
-Operate businesses with leadership positions in select market niches
-Acquire, or partner with, companies in related businesses
-Maintain our diversification with lower-technology businesses
Increase penetration of non-U.S. markets
-Develop a superior work force within a decentralized management framework