Black Box Corporation Announces Merger With American Telephone Service, Inc.Business Editors PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 10, 2000 Black Box Corporation (Nasdaq:BBOX) today announced a merger with American American, river, 30 mi (48 km) long, rising in N central Calif. in the Sierra Nevada and flowing SW into the Sacramento River at Sacramento. The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill (see Sutter, John Augustus) along the river in 1848 led to the California gold rush of Telephone Service, Inc. (ATS). Established in 1986 in Huntington, West Virginia Huntington is a city located in the U.S. State of West Virginia along the Ohio River. Most of the city is in Cabell County, for which it is the county seat of government. A small portion of the city, mainly the neighborhood of Westmoreland, is in Wayne County. , privately-held ATS provides technical design, installation and maintenance services for premise cabling and related network products to customers in the Huntington region. Annual revenues of ATS approximate $1 million. Huey H. Lovejoy, President of Black Box Network Services-West Virginia Virginia, state, United States Virginia, state of the south-central United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), North Carolina and Tennessee (S), Kentucky and West Virginia (W), and Maryland and the District of Columbia (N and NE). , said, "We're very excited about the merger with ATS. Their technical approach to business is very similar to ours and together we foresee fore·see tr.v. fore·saw , fore·seen , fore·see·ing, fore·sees To see or know beforehand: foresaw the rapid increase in unemployment. additional network services opportunities in the greater Huntington region." Donald G. Ensor and Samuel Juniper juniper, any tree or shrub of the genus Juniperus, aromatic evergreens of the family Cupressaceae (cypress family), widely distributed over the north temperate zone. Many are valuable as a source of lumber and oil. , Jr., owners of ATS, said, "This merger is in the best interests of our customers and our employees. American Telephone Service is proud to join forces with a technical leader in this industry." Mr. Ensor will serve as a consultant to the combined operations For the department of the British War Office during World War II, see . In the military, combined operations are operations conducted by forces of two or more allied nations acting together for the accomplishment of a single mission. See also
This transaction is being accounted for as a purchase. The purchase price has not been disclosed. Black Box is a leading worldwide technical service provider of computer communications and networking services and related products to businesses of all sizes, operating in 77 countries throughout the world. |
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