Ames Companies 401(k) and pension plans

The Ames Companies, Inc., Orlando, FL. EIN 22-2335400. Annual reports 2009–2024. Also filed as Ames True Temper, Inc.

The Ames Companies, Inc. has one active retirement plan on file, the Clopay Ames Pension Plan, with 3,527 participants and $132 million in assets in 2024. Principal has been its administrator since 2020.

Active plans: 1
Participants: 3,527
Plan assets: $132 million
Administered by: Principal
Plans on file: 2
Industry: Manufacturing

All 2 plans

Active plans first

Clopay Ames Pension Plan

Pension (defined benefit), frozenActive

Active. The plan filed its annual report for the 2024 plan year.

Plan number: 410Employer EIN 22-2335400
Participants (2024): 3,527
Net assets (2024): $132 million
Administered by: PrincipalEarlier: Wells Fargo (2012–2019), Diversified Retirement (2011), Diversified Investment Advisor (2010), Transamerica (2009)
Plan administrator: The Ames Companies, Inc.
13485 Veterans Way
Orlando, FL 32827
(717) 730-2508As filed for 2024
In effect since: January 14, 2002

Plans merged into this one: Clopay Pension Plan (2011).

Earlier sponsor: Ames True Temper, Inc. (2009–2012).

Earlier plan names: Ames True Temper, Inc. Pension Plan; Clopay Ames True Temper Pension Plan.

Year by year, 2009 to 2024

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2024	3,527	$132 million	Principal
2023	3,642	$132 million	Principal
2022	3,728	$127 million	Principal
2021	3,805	$161 million	Principal
2020	3,881	$156 million	Principal
2019	3,936	$149 million	Wells Fargo
2018	3,978	$136 million	Wells Fargo
2017	4,048	$153 million	Wells Fargo
2016	4,099	$145 million	Wells Fargo
2015	4,101	$145 million	Wells Fargo
2014	4,198	$158 million	Wells Fargo
2013	4,246	$154 million	Wells Fargo
2012	4,356	$143 million	Wells Fargo
2011	5,121	$143 million	Diversified Retirement
2010	3,551	$117 million	Diversified Investment Advisor
2009	3,620	$102 million	Transamerica

Ames True Temper Retirement Savings and Investment Plan

401(k)Merged

Merged. In 2011 its assets moved to the Griffon Corporation Retirement Plan, sponsored by Griffon Corporation (EIN 11-1893410, plan 005). Accounts moved with them, so that plan is the one to contact.

Plan number: 411Employer EIN 22-2335400
Participants (2010): 1,379
Net assets (2010): $30.1 million
Recordkeeper: Transamerica2009–2011
Plan administrator: Ames True Temper, Inc.
465 Railroad Ave
Camp Hill, PA 17011
(717) 730-2508As filed for 2011
In effect since: January 14, 2002

Year by year, 2009 to 2011

Plan year	Participants	Net assets	Recordkeeper
2011	0	$0	Transamerica
2010	1,379	$30.1 million	Transamerica
2009	1,473	$24.8 million	Transamerica

If you had money in one of these plans

Call Principal (principal.com), which runs the Clopay Ames Pension Plan. With your Social Security number and the plan name, it can tell you whether you still have a balance and, if not, where it went.
Or call the plan administrator listed on the plan below ((717) 730-2508). That number was filed for 2024; ask for the benefits or retirement plan office.
If your plan was merged, your account moved with it. Follow the link on the plan to the plan it went into, and contact that one.
Still stuck? The Department of Labor's benefits advisers help for free: askebsa.dol.gov or 1-866-444-3272. Never pay anyone to find your own money.

What these numbers are

They come from the Form 5500 annual reports each plan files with the Department of Labor, as the plan filed them. A plan year is usually a calendar year.
Participants counts everyone in the plan at year end: current employees, former employees who still have a balance or a pension coming, and retirees or beneficiaries being paid.
The recordkeeper is the service provider whose Schedule C entry says it keeps the plan's records. Small plans do not file Schedule C, so some plans show none.
We cannot see anyone's account. Only the plan or its recordkeeper can tell you your balance.

Sources: U.S. Department of Labor, Form 5500 datasets and PBGC trusteed plans. How we read them.

All 2 plans

Clopay Ames Pension Plan

Ames True Temper Retirement Savings and Investment Plan

If you had money in one of these plans

What these numbers are

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