Harbor Freight Tools
About Harbor Freight Tools is America’s largest privately held tool and equipment retailer, headquartered at 26677 Agoura Road, Calabasas, California 91302 — a 228,990-square-foot, four-building corporate campus at Corporate Center Calabasas on Agoura Road, which Harbor Freight moved into in 2019 under a 15-year lease. The company was founded in 1977 by Allan Smidt and his son Eric Smidt in North Hollywood, California — originally as Harbor Freight Salvage, a mail-order business selling surplus and salvage tools by catalog. Eric Smidt became CEO in 1999 and remains Chairman and CEO today, making Harbor Freight one of the largest privately owned, family-operated retail chains in the United States. Harbor Freight’s business model is built on cutting out middlemen by sourcing directly