Smiths Industries bids $100 million for Orbital defense unit
Smiths Industries plc will spend $100 million in cash - about 1.3 times its fiscal 1999 revenues - to buy Orbital Sciences Corp.'s Fairchild Defense electronics business, bolstering the British aerospace company's presence in U.S. markets. Under the terms of the definitive agreement and pending...
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