Printer Friendly
The Free Library
14,679,167 articles and books
Member login
User name  
Password 
 
Join us Forgot password?

Magnetic sale.


Bell Industries Inc. has sold substantially all of the assets, excluding real estate, of its J.W. Miller division to Bourns Inc. for around $8.5 million in cash, the El Segundo-based company said last week.

J.W. Miller, which is based in Gardena, manufactures and distributes a variety of standard and custom magnetic components used in electronic applications for computer, medical and telecommunications Communicating information, including data, text, pictures, voice and video over long distance. See communications.  equipment.

The unit had sales of approximately $8.4 million in 2005.

"J.W. Miller is our smallest business unit. and the sale to Bourns is in keeping with our strategy of focusing on core business operations Business operations are those activities involved in the running of a business for the purpose of producing value for the stakeholders. Compare business processes. The outcome of business operations is the harvesting of value from assets  and aligning a·lign  
v. a·ligned, a·lign·ing, a·ligns

v.tr.
1. To arrange in a line or so as to be parallel: align the tops of a row of pictures; aligned the car with the curb.
 our resources to become leaders in the key markets we serve," said Bell Chief Executive John Fellows.

Bourns, a privately held company privately held company

A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly.
 based in Riverside. manufactures electronic components for a broad range of markets.
COPYRIGHT 2006 CBJ, L.P.
No portion of this article can be reproduced without the express written permission from the copyright holder.
Copyright 2006, Gale Group. All rights reserved. Gale Group is a Thomson Corporation Company.

 Reader Opinion

Title:

Comment:



 

Article Details
Printer friendly Cite/link Email Feedback
Publication:Los Angeles Business Journal
Geographic Code:1USA
Date:May 8, 2006
Words:137
Previous Article:Giuliani acquisition.(Brief article)
Next Article:Probe wrapped up.(NEWS ROUNDUP)
Topics:



Related Articles
EMFs run aground: mapping magnetic fields from water pipes and other homely sources. (electromagnetic fields)(includes related articles) (Cover Story)
Laser Guided Magnetic Recording.
Magnetic Platens Catch On for Giant Presses.(Brief Article)
Optical RAID Complements Magnetic.(Industry Trend or Event)
Pulsed inductive microwave magnetometer developed at NIST. (News Briefs).
Sun storms spawn magnetic reversal.(Solar Flip-Flops)
STRIPE PASS BEGINS ITS RUN MAGNETIC CARD NEW TRANSIT STEP.(News)
Magnetic platens display actual holding force.(KEEPING UP WITH: Tooling)
Fujitsu Introduces its First 2.5" Hard Disk Drives Featuring Perpendicular Magnetic Recording.

Terms of use | Copyright © 2009 Farlex, Inc. | Feedback | For webmasters | Submit articles