霍尼韦尔宣布收购手持产品有限公司

Honeywell Announces Agreement to Acquire Hand Held Products Inc.

霍尼韦尔宣布收购手持产品有限公司

MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 17, 2007-- Honeywell (NYSE: HON) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Hand Held Products Inc., a privately held Automatic Identification and Data Collection (AIDC) company based in Skaneateles Falls, N.Y., for approximately $390 million. Hand Held Products manufactures a range of data collection and communication products designed for mobile, on-site, and transaction processing in retail, healthcare, utilities, transportation, logistics and industry. The agreement is subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory review.

明尼亚波利斯10月17日消息——霍尼韦尔今天宣布已经签署了一份最终协议，以大约3亿9千万美元的价格收购手持产品有限公司，一家位于纽约Skaneateles Falls、专注于自动识别和数据收集领域的私人控股公司。手持产品有限公司生产众多的数据采集和通信产品，用于零售、医疗保健、电力、运输、物流和工业等行业的移送、现场以及交易处理领域。该协议正在等待特别成交条件，包括监管部门的审查。

Hand Held will become a part of Honeywell's Security Group within the Automation and Control Solutions (ACS) business. Hand Held had sales of approximately $285 million in 2006.

手持产品有限公司将纳入霍尼韦尔自动化和控制解决方案业务下面的安全集团。手持产品有限公司2006年的销售额大约是2亿8千5百万美元。

Roger Fradin, President and CEO of Honeywell ACS said, "Hand Held's growth potential and strong positions in key vertical markets complement ACS' existing wireless solutions. Hand Held's 'customer first' mentality fits well with our culture. Both cultures value innovation that drives our customers' success."

霍尼韦尔自动化和控制解决方案总裁兼首席执行官Roger Fradin表示：“手持产品公司的发展潜力和在关键垂直市场的强大市场地位完善了我们自动化和控制解决方案部现有的无线解决方案。手持产品公司的'顾客至上'理念十分符合我们的企业文化。两种文化都推崇创新驱动我们客户的成功。”

Hand Held's core products are bar code scanners and rugged mobile, wireless computers that are used for asset-tracking, logistics execution and supply chain management across diverse end markets. The company is perhaps best known in its space for its line of mobile computing and imaging technology used by the U.S. Postal Service, Dillard's and Veterans Administration hospitals.

手持产品公司的核心产品是条码扫描仪和应用于多个终端市场的资产跟踪、物流执行和供应链管理的坚固移动无线计算机。该公司在其领域最为人所知的是其移动计算机和图像技术，它们被美国邮政局和 Dillard's以及Veterans Administration医院采用。

"Hand Held has demonstrated leadership in image-based technology, which is replacing laser-based legacy products," said Ben Cornett, President of Honeywell Security. "There's tremendous opportunity for us with Hand Held as global demand for information increases along the supply chain in healthcare, industry and logistics; the outlook for the overall industry shows double- digit growth."

霍尼韦尔安全集团总裁 Ben Cornett表示：“手持产品公司在基于图像的技术上已经证明了其领导地位，而基于图像的技术正在代替基于激光的老式产品。随着医疗保健、工业和物流业的供应链对全球信息需求的增加，我们和手持产品公司有着巨大的机会。展望整个产业显示出两位数的增长。“

"Aligning with Honeywell -- one of the world's leading technology companies -- gives us an unprecedented ability to develop best-in-class solutions and deliver them to our customers," said Kevin Jost, President and CEO for Hand Held Products. "Over the past three decades, we've built a successful business around innovation focused on best serving customer needs -- more recently we've developed a clear and compelling view of the future for our customers and employees, which we believe can now be fully realized through this exciting combination."

手持产品公司总裁兼首席执行官Kevin Jost表示：”与世界上领先的技术公司之一的霍尼韦尔公司联合，给了我们一个前所未有的开发一流解决方案能力，并将其交付给我们的客户。在过去的30年里，我们围绕创新这个重点，致力于为客户的需求提供最好的服务，已经取得了成功的业务。最近，我们为客户和员工制定出了一个明确而且有说服力的未来目标，我们相信，通过这个令人兴奋的合并，这个目标现在可以充分实现。“

Cornett added: "This acquisition creates an exciting adjacency for Honeywell Security that will enable us to deliver even better technology and solutions to customers. We're enthusiastic about bringing both Hand Held and Honeywell customers a broader selection of products and services."

Cornett补充道：”本次收购为霍尼韦尔安全集团创造了一个令人振奋的邻接，这将使我们能够提供更出色的技术和解决方案给客户。我们很乐意为手持产品公司和霍尼韦尔的客户带来更广泛的产品和服务选择。“

Honeywell International is a $34 billion diversified technology and manufacturing leader, serving customers worldwide with aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings, homes and industry; automotive products; turbochargers; and specialty materials. Based in Morris Township, N.J., Honeywell’s shares are traded on the New York, London and Chicago Stock Exchanges. It is one of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average and is also a component of the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index.

霍尼韦尔国际是一家年销售额为340亿美元，在多元化技术和制造业方面占世界领导地位的跨国公司。在全球范围内为顾客提供航空产品及服务、楼宇及住宅控制和工业控制技术、自动化产品、涡轮增压器以及特种材料等。总部设在美国新泽西州莫里斯镇，其股票在纽约、伦敦、芝加哥太平洋证券市场进行交易。为道琼斯工业指数的30家构成公司之一，也是“标准普尔500指数”的组成部分。

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