If only you could order parkside all year around. Currently I have to wait for the product that I want to buy, to randomly appear in one of my local Lidl stores and then rush to hope to get one before they sell out. It’s not a real alternative
One of the reasons I went with Einhell. No regrets.
To my knowledge, Parkside and Bosch are mostly manufactured in China. Parkside is a name brand for Lidl, from Grizzly Tools.
My Bosch Professional 12V drills are made in Malaysia.
My Makita tools were made in Romania. Does that count?
Huh, I just assumed they displayed Bosch and Makita
Never saw any other company here lol
Parkside is the brand from Lidl. Not great, not terrible.
Bosch also funds a company helping Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_Stiftung
I think top tier is Hilti (Swiss) , expensive of course.
But Bosch, Metabo and Festool are reall good choices ayway.
Is parkside really the only other option to put next to Bosch? I mean, I love the middle isle as much as the next guy, Lidl own brand seems a stretch
Festool, Einhell
TLDR: out of all of these the only real european companies are:
- Bosch (group)
- TTS tooltechnic systems (group)
- Fein (independent)
- Hilti (independent)
And makita from Japan and one of the only independent manufacturers left, as well as Fein and Hilti.
Einhell (also own Ozito) is also on its own, headquartered in Germany. Mostly made in China. But they are moving battery production to Hungary. Also planning to build tools in other Asian countries to be less dependent on China.
Metabo and Hikoki are also a company. Don’t know if its based in Japan.
I’m sorry, but for this stuff I’m team Makita.
Yeah you can’t just change brands. It’s too expensive. You get the battery. You are locked into that ecosystem. Simple as that.
You can get adapters but yes it doesn’t cure anything but waste to get rid of functioning tools
