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Acquisitions Make Headlines Throughout 2015

November 30
00:00 2015

FEATURE

Below is a summary of fastener industry acquisitions during 2015 by way of 24 FIN headlines this year – with a week of potential more deal closings concurrent with the end of the year.

 

Fastener acquisition analyst Richard Hagan of Pinnacle Capital Corp. will issue his Top Ten Fastener Acquisitions of 2015 this coming spring.  For 2014 he chronicled 41 fastener company acquisitions worldwide.

 

 

Cable Tie Express Announces Equity Investment – 12/14/2015

 

Heartland Equity Acquires Cass Screw – 12/11/2015 

 

Bossard/KVT Invests in Illerrieden – 11/27/2015

 

Acquisitions & Currency Exchange Boost Bufab Sales – 11/23/2015

 

Grainger Sales Drop Despite Acquisitions Gain – 11/10/2015

 

Fastenal Reports Sales Decline Amid Acquisition – 11/10/2015

 

MW Industries Continues Acquisitions Trend – 11/5/2015

 

Bossard Reports U.S. Sales Growth With Aero-Space Southwest Acquisition –  10/14/2015

 

Pentair Completes $1.8b Acquisition of ERICO – 10/7/2015

 

UK’s Trifast Acquires German Distributor – 10/7/2015

 

Nedschroef to Acquire Two Whitesell Plants – 10/7/2015

 

Grainger Reports ‘Flat’ Corporate Sales; Sales From Acquisitions Up – 9/16/2015

 

Acquisitions Drive Würth Group to Double-Digit Growth – 8/9/2015

 

Details of Applied Acquisition of Atlantic Fasteners Emerge – 8/6/2015

 

$2.5 Billion Applied Industrial Technologies Acquires Employee-Owned Atlantic Fasteners – 8/4/2015

 

Pittsburgh Firm Buys 2nd Fastener Company – 7/6/2015

 

Platinum Equity Re-Enters Fastener Industry – 5/20/2015

 

Bossard Acquisitions Boost Sales ‘Significantly’ – 4/13/2015

 

TriMas Fastener Segment Sales Jump With Allfast Acquisition – 4/29/2015

 

Report: Buffet Buyng Precision Castparts Stock – 3/20/2015

 

Anixter Selling Fasteners Division for $380 Million – 2/17/2015

 

MW Industries Acquires Helical Products – 2/10/2015

 

Anixter Selling Its Fasteners Division – 1/27/2015

 

Bossard Acquires Italian Fastener Supplier – 1/12/2015

 

 

The Fastener History section of GlobalFastenerNews.com features 84 stories involving fastener acquisitions.  Here are a sampling of fastener acquisition articles posted during 2015:

1989 FIN – Wrought Washer Acquires MSL Stamping

In 1986 Wrought Washer acquired precision machining company Luebke Corp. and in 1988 Franklin Tool & Mfg Co. Inc., a producer of dies, fixtures, special machinery and prototypes….

1999 FIN – Gilchrist:  Questron Acquisition Provides Opportunity for Growth

Capital grew to $9.5 million sales in 1998 …

2001 FIN – Acquisitions Change Fastener Industry Names

Gone are MascoTech, Cordant Technologies and Maple Leaf Aerospace. Going is Industrial Holdings.

2002 FIN – Fairchild, Huck Become Alcoa Fastening Systems

Alcoa entered the fastener industry in 2000 with the acquisition of Cordant Technologies Inc. Cordant had owned Huck since 1991 …

2004 FIN – Precision Castparts Corp. Shopping for More Fastener Firms

Announcement follows PCC acquisition of SPS Technologies …

2011 FIN – Alcoa Expands in Aerospace With McKechnie Deal

Valley-Todeco, Linread, TransDigm and McKechnie names involved …

 

In addition, the FIN Stock Review section of GlobalFastenerNews.com includes more acquisition news, such as the summaries of Hillman, Precision Castparts and Stanley Black & Decker.  FIN Subscribers may click on FIN Stock Review to read the summaries. 

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