{"id":1303,"date":"2011-05-11T22:59:13","date_gmt":"2011-05-11T22:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/?p=1303"},"modified":"2011-05-11T22:59:13","modified_gmt":"2011-05-11T22:59:13","slug":"idex-cvi-melles-griot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/11\/idex-cvi-melles-griot\/","title":{"rendered":"Idex CVI Melles Griot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/jawsoflife.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"Jaws of Life brand, also owned by Idex\" width=\"555\" height=\"307\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1307\" srcset=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/jawsoflife.png 555w, http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/jawsoflife-300x165.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 555px) 100vw, 555px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Acquisition news. In May 2007, CVI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringnews.co.za\/article\/barloworld-strategic-restructuring-going-to-plan-2007-05-14\">bought<\/a> Melles Griot for $60 million. CVI was itself owned by Norwest Equity Partners. The new CVI Melles Griot then promptly <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techrockies.com\/story\/0011506.html\">bought<\/a> Coherent Imaging Systems. Now Norwest is <a href=\"http:\/\/phx.corporate-ir.net\/phoenix.zhtml?c=83305&#038;p=irol-newsArticle&#038;ID=1562397&#038;highlight=\">selling<\/a> CVI Melles Griot to Idex for $400 million.<\/p>\n<p>BTW, Idex already owns Semrock (since 2008) and ATFilms (since just a few months ago). And the Jaws of Life brand, which explains the accompanying image.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\">\n<p>Acquisition news. In May 2007, CVI <a href=\"http:\/\/www.engineeringnews.co.za\/article\/barloworld-strategic-restructuring-going-to-plan-2007-05-14\">bought<\/a> Melles Griot for $60 million. CVI was itself owned by Norwest Equity Partners. The new CVI Melles Griot then&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/11\/idex-cvi-melles-griot\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1303"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1309,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1303\/revisions\/1309"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/labrigger.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}