Who owns Bryant?

Who owns Bryant depends on which Bryant you are referring to, as there are multiple companies and entities with Bryant in the name. For Bryant heating and cooling, which is the most common reference in HVAC, Bryant is owned by Carrier Global Corporation, a large American multinational HVAC company headquartered in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida. Carrier acquired Bryant in 1955, and Bryant has operated as a brand of Carrier ever since, making furnaces, air conditioners, and heat pumps that are manufactured by Carrier. For Bryant University, the private university in Smithfield, Rhode Island, it is owned as a nonprofit educational institution governed by its board of trustees, not by a corporation. For the surname Bryant and family, there is no single owner. For Bryant as an electrical brand, there is Bryant Electric which was historically part of Hubbell, as Hubbell acquired Bryant Electric in the 1920s, and Bryant Electric outlets and switches are now part of Hubbell Wiring Device-Kellems. So in HVAC, Carrier owns Bryant; in electrical devices, Hubbell owns the historic Bryant Electric brand; and Bryant University is an independent nonprofit university. The most commonly asked ownership is HVAC, where Carrier is the parent company of Bryant.