M&A Deal Summary

Measurement Specialties Acquires Entran Devices

On July 19, 2004, Measurement Specialties acquired electronics company Entran Devices for 10M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Measurement Specialties’ 2nd transaction in the Electronics sector.
  • This is Measurement Specialties’ 14th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Measurement Specialties’ 6th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Measurement Specialties’ 1st transaction in New Jersey.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2004-07-19
Target Entran Devices
Sector Electronics
Buyer(s) Measurement Specialties
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition
Deal Value 10M USD

Target

Entran Devices

Fairfield, New Jersey, United States
Entran Devices, Inc. is a designer and manufacturer of acceleration, pressure and force sensors sold primarily to the automotive crash test and motorsport racing markets. Their primary products include piezo-resistive accelerometers sold to various customers for use in destructive automotive crash testing, both on crash dummies and on the car itself.

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Buyer

Measurement Specialties

Hampton, Virginia, United States

Category Company
Founded 1981
Sector Test/Measurement Equipment
Employees3,721
Revenue 412M USD (2013)
DESCRIPTION

Measurement Specialties, Inc. designs and manufactures sensors and sensor-based systems to measure precise ranges of physical characteristics such as measuring pressure, linear/rotary position, force, torque, piezoelectric polymer film sensors, custom microstructures, load cells, vibrations and acceleration, optical absorption, humidity, gas concentration, gas flow rate, temperature, fluid properties and fluid level.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 6 of 25
Sector: Electronics M&A 2 of 15
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 3 of 17
State: New Jersey M&A 1 of 1
Country: United States M&A 6 of 14
Year: 2004 M&A 3 of 4
Size (of disclosed) 14 of 24
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-07-16 Encoder Devices

Plainfield, Illinois, United States

Encoder Devices LLC is a designer and manufacturer of rotational sensors (encoders) utilizing magnetic encoding technology. Magnetic encoding is an emerging technology that has many cost and performance advantages over traditional optical encoders.

Buy $4M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2004-12-20 Humirel S.A.

Toulouse, France

Humirel S.A. is a designer and manufacturer of humidity sensors and assemblies for automotive, heavy truck, HVAC and consumer product markets. Humirel products are used in OEM applications such as automotive windshield defogging, diesel engine performance and emissions management and control, and consumer durable goods for humidity measurement, among others.

Buy €19M