Waltham, MA 9/5/07; Baltimore, MD 9/6/07—Thermo Fisher Scientific has acquired the instrument sales business of Davis Inotek Instruments, excluding its related calibration services. The business provides test, measurement and process control instruments through catalogs and e-commerce. It generated 2006 revenues of $30 million. Rebranded as Davis Instruments, the business will join Thermo Fisher’s Cole-Parmer customer […]
March l’Etoile, France 9/11/07—BioMérieux has acquired BTF, a supplier of reference standards for microbiological testing and water control solutions. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. Based in Sydney, Australia, BTF generated 2006 sales of AUD 4 million ($3.0 million) and employs 24 people. “We are excited about the acquisition of BTF, our third […]
Santa Clara, CA 8/23/07; 8/27/07—Agilent Technologies has announced that Chris van Ingen, president of its Bio-Analytical Measurement business (BAM), will retire on October 31. “I leave Agilent with a great sense of accomplishment,” stated Mr. van Ingen. “The past few years have been very exciting ones for us, with ongoing success in our current markets […]
Grand Rapids, MI 8/23/07—X-Rite, a maker of color spectrophotometers and colorimeters, has agreed to acquire Pantone for $180 million. Pantone provides products for color identification, matching and reproduction, including color matching systems and standards. In 2006, Pantone recorded revenues of $42 million and adjusted EBITDA of approximately 27% of revenues. X-Rite expects the transaction to […]
East Hills, NY 7/19/07; 8/2/07; 8/20/07—Pall announced in early August that its Audit Committee determined that the company will be required to restate its annual and quarterly results for some or all of fiscal years 1999–2006. The decision is related to Pall’s July announcement of an inquiry into “the possible material understatement of US income […]
Woburn, MA 8/28/07—Nova Analytics, a supplier and integrator of electrochemistry products, has announced that it acquired Global Water Instrumentation. Based outside of Sacramento, California, Global Water Instrumentation was established in 1990 and manufactures a wide variety of water testing instruments, including flow meters, pH meters, dissolved oxygen meters and conductivity meters. Chris McIntire, president and […]
Norwalk, CT 8/8/07—Applera has retained Morgan Stanley to explore alternatives for its tracking-stock structure under which its Applied Biosystems and Celera businesses are separately listed on the New York Stock Exchange. Among the alternatives under consideration is the creation of two separate, publicly traded companies. A tracking stock does not represent a separate company, but […]
Paoli, PA 8/13/07; Paris, France 8/13/07—AMETEK has acquired CAMECA SAS, a manufacturer of secondary ion mass and low-energy X-ray emission spectrometers, as well as tomographic atom probes and electron probe microanalysis instrumentation, for €82 million ($112 million) from the Carlyle Group. Based in Paris, France, CAMECA has annual sales of approximately €60 million ($82 million). […]
Washington, DC 8/6/07—ICx Technologies, a developer of security products, has filed for a public offering of its common stock on the US NASDAQ exchange. The filing did not specify the offer price or date. ICx’s 2006 sales increased 15.7% to $90.2 million (see page 12). Product sales for its Detection business grew 416% in 2006 […]
Santa Clara, CA and New York, NY 8/10/07—Symyx Technologies has agreed to acquire the infrastructure-related software applications and selected databases of MDL Information Systems from Elsevier for $123 million in cash. Elsevier will retain certain MDL content assets, including the CrossFire, Beilstein, the Patent Chemistry, Gmelin and PharmaPendium databases. MDL provides informatics framework and workflow […]
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