Triumph Group Inc. agreed to acquire Vought Aircraft Industries Inc. from Carlyle Group for $984 million, a deal which will give the private-equity giant nearly one-third of Triumph. The Wayne, Pa., ... Read More
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, the global leader in generic drugs, said Thursday that it had reached a deal to acquire the German generic drug maker Ratiopharm, ending a nine-month battle that had ... Read More
Tektronix, Inc. completed the acquisition of privately-owned SyntheSys Research, Inc. Details of the transaction were not disclosed. SyntheSys Research (Menlo Park, Calif.) develops and manufactures high-speed signal integrity test and measurement ... Read More
Teledyne Technologies Inc., an engineering and electronic products maker, said Monday it has bought Optimum Optical Systems Inc. for an undisclosed sum. Optimum Optical, based in Camarillo, Calif., makes products used ... Read More
The University of Missouri comes in at No. 23 on The Daily Beast’s list of Tech’s 29 Most Powerful Colleges. The school is hailed for its Missouri Research Park in St. ... Read More
Tech Aerospace Group Inc., a Kansas City airplane parts maker, plans to build a new $17.5 million 75,000-square-foot plant and add 100 jobs in Washington, Mo. The company, which had also ... Read More
ABB, the Swiss engineering group, is buying British-based Chloride Group for an agreed £860 million ($1.25 billion), as it seeks to improve its automation offering. Shares in Chloride surged 18 percent ... Read More
A January survey of business leaders in nine Midwest and Plains states suggests that the region’s economy is picking up steam. The Business Conditions Index for the Mid-America region made a ... Read More
U.S. solar-panel manufacturer SunPower has signed an agreement to acquire SunRay Renewable Energy and its existing solar projects for $277 million, both companies announced Thursday. The maker of high-efficiency solar panels ... Read More
Each year about a million people visit the Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun theme parks in Kansas City, Missouri, most of them unaware of an even stranger attraction lying ... Read More