Acquisitions Make Headlines Throughout 2015
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Acquisitions Make Headlines Throughout 2015
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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