Egham, UK 11/26/12—Spectris has agreed to acquire Analytical Spectral Devices (ASD) for $14 million, excluding debt and cash. In addition, a contingent consideration of up to $19 million will be payable based on sales through December 2015. ASD is a provider of NIR instrumentation solutions and application expertise for materials measurement and research. “ASD’s successful […]
Mountain View, CA and Shenzhen, China 9/17/12; Washington, DC 11/13/12; Washington DC, 11/21/12; Washington DC 11/25/12; Washington, DC 11/27/12—Publicly held Complete Genomics, a provider of DNA sequencing services, has rejected an offer by Illumina to acquire the company. On November 20, Illumina submitted a $3.30 per share unsolicited offer for the firm. In September, Complete […]
Company Announcements In August, Danaher acquired Hangzhou Dingli Environmental, a Chinese distributor of Hach products for online water quality instrumentation. In September, Pall announced that its New England Life Sciences Center of Excellence in Westborough, Massachusetts, will open in spring 2013. The 113,000-square-foot facility will provide a range of process solutions. Existing operations in Northborough, […]
For some of the acquisition reported in IBO over the last year, purchase prices were not available at the time of the announcement. The table below shows the prices for acquired companies that were later disclosed in regulatory filings or company reports. Bio-Rad Laboratories also disclosed in its third-quarter regulatory filing that it paid $5 […]
Radnor, PA 11/2/12—VWR International has purchased Lab3, a distributor of scientific lab supplies headquartered in Bristol, UK. Lab3 is an existing VWR distributor and provides consumables, chemicals, equipment and technical services in the UK. The company also provides custom labeling and kitting services, as well as technical services such as installation, calibration and repair. Financial […]
Waltham, MA and Shanghai, China 11/13/12—PerkinElmer has acquired China-based Shanghai Haoyuan Biotech, an infectious disease diagnostics company, for $38 million in cash and potential future additional consideration. The company supplies molecular infectious disease screening technologies for blood banks and clinical labs in China. The acquisition extends PerkinElmer’s capabilities into nucleic acid blood screening and molecular […]
Carlsbad, CA 11/5/12—Life Technologies has acquired Advanced Microscopy Group (AMG), incorporated as Westover Scientific, a developer of imaging systems for research microscopy, for an undisclosed amount. Life Technologies’ FLoid Cell Imaging Station for fluorescent microscopy is manufactured by AMG. AMG also provides the EVOS range of microscopes, which includes systems that address the tissue culture […]
After several years of sizable transactions, merger and acquisition (M&A) activity in the instrument and laboratory product–related industry was restrained in 2012. The combined value of the top five largest pure-play acquisitions amounted to $2.2 billion in 2012, compared with an average of $7.2 billion over the previous five years. However, the absence of any […]
Los Angeles, CA 10/24/12—OpenGate Capital has acquired Thermo Fisher Scientific’s Laboratory Workstations business for an undisclosed amount. With $175 million in annual revenues, the Laboratory Workstations business designs, manufactures and installs lab furniture, fume hoods and epoxy resin tops. “I am confident that great value will be created as this acquisition sits perfectly in our […]
Hercules, CA 10/31/12—Bio-Rad Laboratories has acquired a cell sorting system from Propel Labs. Bio-Rad will sell the compact, easy to use and affordable system designed for use by individual researchers as the S3 Cell Sorter. Shipments will begin in January 2013. “With this acquisition, we benefit from Propel Labs’ years of expertise in cell sorting,” […]
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