San Diego, CA 12/9/13—Accelrys, a provider of scientific innovation lifecycle management (SILM) solutions, has acquired QUMAS for $50 million in cash. QUMAS is a supplier of compliance software supporting regulatory and quality operations in life sciences and other highly regulated industries. QUMAS offers an electronic document management application with related R&D submission and quality analysis […]
Reinach, Switzerland 12/3/13—Industrial measurement and automation equipment company Endress+Hauser has completed its cash offer of €13.75 ($18.75 = €0.74 = $1) per share to the shareholders of scientific instrument firm Analytik Jena (see IBO 9/30/13, 11/15/13), gaining an additional 1% stake in the company. Endress+Hauser now controls 76% of voting rights. “This position allows us […]
London, UK 11/27/13; London, UK 12/2/13; London, UK 12/9/13; London, UK 12/10/13—Andor Technology, a provider of scientific digital cameras, has agreed to high technology tools and systems company Oxford Instrument’s takeover offer of 525 pence ($8.33 = £0.63 = $) per share, or approximately £176 million ($279 million) (see IBO 11/15/13). On December 6, Oxford […]
Company Announcements Hitachi High-Technologies’ fiscal second quarter 2014 Science and Medical Systems (SMS) sales grew 7.5% to ¥37.1 billion ($375.2 million = ¥98.89= $1) due to the acquisition of SII NanoTechnology (see IBO 12/15/12) and currency. Sales of Electron Microscopes and Other Scientific Instruments climbed 8.3% and 47.7% to account for 21% and 18% of […]
Paris and Codolet, France 11/18/13; Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 11/18/13—Drug discovery and IVD assay developer and service provider Cisbio Bioassays has been sold by Ion Beam Applications to private equity firm Argos Soditic and management for €16.3 million ($22.0 million = €0.74 = $1). Based in Codolet, France, with annual revenues of €35 million ($47 million), Cisbio […]
Conshohocken, PA 11/22/13; London, UK 11/22/13—Instem, a publicly held supplier of IT solutions to the early development health care market, has acquired Perceptive Instruments for £1.0 million ($1.6 million = £0.62 = $1). Perceptive develops, manufactures and supplies image analysis and data processing solutions primarily focused on toxicology, microbiology and immunology. The UK-based firm had […]
Graz, Austria 11/18/13—High precision instrument firm Anton Paar has acquired CSM Instruments for an undisclosed amount. Based in Switzerland, CSM develops, produces and markets laboratory instruments for the characterization of mechanical properties on material surfaces at the micro- and nano-scales. The company generated sales of €12 million ($15 million = €0.78 = $1) in 2012 […]
Waltham, MA 11/26/13; Brussels, Belgium 11/26/13—The European Commission (EC) has cleared the merger of Thermo Fisher Scientific and Life Technologies (see IBO 4/15/13) with conditions. The EC found that the merger risked reduced competition in the European Economic Area with respect to the production and supply of media and sera for cell culture, gene silencing […]
Details of an acquisition not released when it is announced are occasionally available from a company’s SEC filings. The table below shows purchase prices disclosed in SEC filings. Additional details are also available. VWR disclosed that United Biochemicals, which it acquired in July (see IBO 7/15/13), has annual sales of around $12 million.
Sarasota, FL 10/28/13; Houston, TX 11/6/13—PAC, a Roper Industries company, has acquired Advanced Sensors, a supplier of oil-in-water process analyzers, for £34 million ($55 million = £0.62 = $1). Advanced Sensors’ analyzers utilize ultrasonics, fluorescence, video microscopy, optical spectrometry and MS to ensure process and environmental control and offer early warning indicators of leaks and […]
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