M&A Deal Summary

Dionex Acquires Teledyne Technologies - SWIFT

On August 26, 2005, Dionex acquired test/measurement equipment company Teledyne Technologies - SWIFT from Teledyne Technologies

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Dionex’s 1st transaction in the Test/Measurement Equipment sector.
  • This is Dionex’s 1st transaction in the United States.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2005-08-26
Target Teledyne Technologies - SWIFT
Sector Test/Measurement Equipment
Buyer(s) Dionex
Sellers(s) Teledyne Technologies
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Teledyne Technologies - SWIFT

United States
Teledyne Technologies - SWIFT business is a flash chromatography instruments and consumables, core wastewater sampler and flow products, and high-pressure syringe pumps.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Dionex

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1968
Sector Test/Measurement Equipment
DESCRIPTION

Dionex Corp. is a manufacturer and marketer of liquid chromatography and sample preparation systems, consumables, and software for chemical analysis. The company's systems are used worldwide in environmental analysis and by the life sciences, chemical, petrochemical, food and beverage, power generation, and electronics industries.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 1
Sector: Test/Measurement Equipment M&A 1 of 1
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2005 M&A 1 of 1

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Teledyne Technologies

Thousand Oaks, California, United States

Category Company
Founded 1960
Sector Test/Measurement Equipment
Employees14,900
Revenue 5.7B USD (2024)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Teledyne's corporate campus in Thousand Oaks, California.
Entrance to Teledyne's corporate campus in Thousand Oaks, California.

Teledyne Technologies provides enabling technologies for deepwater oil and gas exploration and production, oceanographic research, air and water quality environmental monitoring, electronics design and development, factory automation, and medical imaging markets. The Company's products include monitoring and control instrumentation for marine and environmental applications, harsh environment interconnects, electronic test and measurement equipment, digital imaging sensors and cameras, aircraft information management systems, and defense electronic and satellite communication subsystems. Teledyne also supplies engineered systems for defense, space, environmental and energy applications. Teledyne Technologies was founded in 1960 and is based in Thousand Oaks, California.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 5 of 7
Sector: Test/Measurement Equipment M&A 2 of 2
Type: Divestiture M&A Deals 4 of 6
Country: United States M&A 4 of 6
Year: 2005 M&A 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-07-01 Cougar Components

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Cougar Components Corp. designs and manufactures RF and microwave cascadable amplifiers and subsystems for signal processing equipment.

Buy $27M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2005-08-29 Teledyne RD Instruments

Poway, California, United States

Teledyne RD Instruments, Inc. designs and manufactures state-of-the-art acoustic Doppler instrumentation. RD Instruments, Inc. is based in San Diego, California.

Buy $37M