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Badger Meter Broadens Water Quality Offering With Acquisition of Analytical Technology, Inc.
January 8, 2021 GMT
MILWAUKEE (BUSINESS WIRE) Jan 8, 2021
Badger Meter, Inc. (NYSE: BMI) today announced the acquisition of Analytical Technology, Inc. (“ATi”), a privately held provider of water quality monitoring systems, for $44 million, funded with available cash.
Founded in 1992, with headquarters in Collegeville, Pennsylvania, USA, ATi specializes in the design, manufacture and distribution of water quality instruments based on electrochemical and optical sensors. In addition to water quality parameters, its technology is also used to detect toxic gasses used in water treatment and other applications.
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World Insurance Associates Acquires Two Rivers Insurance Company, Inc.
January 8, 2021 GMT
TINTON FALLS, N.J. (BUSINESS WIRE) Jan 8, 2021
World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA), a Top 100 Insurance Agency, announced today that it acquired Two Rivers Insurance Company, Inc. (“TRIC”) of Burlington, IA on December 31, 2020. TRIC includes Two Rivers Insurance Services (TRIS) and Employee Benefits Systems (EBS). Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
TRIC will continue to be headquartered in Burlington, Iowa, and will continue to offer insurance from its offices in Ft. Madison, Earlham, and West Des Moines. Todd Ackerman will continue as President and CEO. Joining WIA’s national network of regional insurance agencies will allow TRIC to offer more products to its customers from a larger network of providers at competitive pricing.
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BrightView Acquires Commercial Landscape Firm Cutting Edge Property Maintenance, Inc.
January 8, 2021 GMT
BLUE BELL, Pa. (BUSINESS WIRE) Jan 8, 2021
BrightView Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: BV) (“BrightView”), the leading commercial landscaping services company in the United States, today announced the acquisition of Cutting Edge Property Maintenance, Inc. based in Plymouth, Minn. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
“Cutting Edge has earned a reputation for providing superior service, which creates lasting client satisfaction,” said BrightView President and CEO Andrew Masterman. “They have the expertise and capabilities to provide a full suite of winter services, landscape maintenance and enhancements, tree care, and irrigation services. This deal brings a service leader in a desirable Upper Midwest market into the BrightView family along with more than 110 skilled team memb
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Celularity and GX Acquisition Corp. Announce Merger Agreement to Create a Publicly Listed Leader in Allogeneic Cellular Therapy
January 8, 2021 GMT
FLORHAM PARK, N.J. and NEW YORK, Jan. 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Celularity Inc. (“Celularity”), a clinical-stage biotechnology company, leading the next evolution in cellular medicine with the development of off-the-shelf allogeneic therapies derived from the postpartum human placenta, and GX Acquisition Corp. (Nasdaq: GXGX), a special purpose acquisition company, today announced they have entered into a definitive merger agreement pursuant to which GX Acquisition Corp. will combine with Celularity. Upon the closing of the transaction, which is expected to occur in the second quarter of 2021, GX Acquisition Corp. will be renamed Celularity Inc., and its common stock and warrants are expected to remain listed on Nasdaq under the new ticker symbo
Red Hat To Bolster Kubernetes Security Capabilities With StackRox Acquisition
Red Hat looks to accelerate the adoption of container technology and its OpenShift hybrid cloud platform with the expanded security that StackRox will bring to cloud applications. By Rick Whiting January 07, 2021, 07:09 PM EST
Open-software powerhouse Red Hat has struck a deal to buy StackRox, a developer of container and Kubernetes-native security that Red hat will use to boost the security capabilities of the Red Hat OpenShift hybrid cloud platform.
The acquisition comes as the adoption of container technology in general – and Kubernetes in particular – for cloud-native applications within production IT environments is accelerating.