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Trimble Acquires Rawson Control Systems

On December 4, 2008, Trimble acquired electronics company Rawson Control Systems

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Trimble’s 6th transaction in the Electronics sector.
  • This is Trimble’s 18th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Trimble’s 2nd transaction in Iowa.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2008-12-04
Target Rawson Control Systems
Sector Electronics
Buyer(s) Trimble
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Rawson Control Systems

Oelwein, Iowa, United States
Rawson Control Systems, Inc., designs, builds, and markets hydraulic and electronic controls for the farm and mobile equipment industry, including precision GPS variable rate drive products, control valves and speed reducers.

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Buyer

Trimble

Westminster, Colorado, United States
Category Company
Founded 1978
Sector Information Technology
Employees12,700
Revenue 3.8B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION
Entrance to Trimble Navigation's corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.
Entrance to Trimble Navigation's corporate headquarters in Sunnyvale, California.

Trimble is a provider of location-based solutions. The Company integrates its positioning expertise in GPS, laser, optical and inertial technologies with application software, wireless communications, and services to provide an array of commercial solutions. Trimble's technology serves a variety of industries including agriculture, engineering and construction, transportation and wireless communications infrastructure. Trimble was founded in 1978 and is based in Westminster, Colorado.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 29 of 106
Sector: Electronics M&A 6 of 11
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 26 of 93
State: Iowa M&A 2 of 3
Country: United States M&A 18 of 58
Year: 2008 M&A 8 of 9
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-10-31 Tru Count

Ames, Iowa, United States

Tru Count, Inc., is a manufacturer of air and electric clutches that automate individual planter row shut-off. The low-cost Tru Count Air Clutch is placed on each planter row and is controlled with compressed air pneumatically from the tractor cab by a Global Positioning System (GPS) system or manual controller.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2008-12-19 KOREC-FastMap and GeoSite Software Assets

United Kingdom

FastMap is an integrated field-based software suite for GIS data collection, maintenance, and use that supports all Ordnance Survey digital data sources as well as data from any GIS system that conforms to OpenGIS(R) standards. GeoSite product provides a complete solution for land surveyors and construction professionals for managing a full range of field to office functions such as processing data, editing CAD files, conducting volume analysis, and plotting production operations, all in a single software package.

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