Major industrial automation merger and acquisition deals have been a bit quiet since ABB’s deals over the past two years with Thomas & Betts and Baldor and Siemens' recent acquisition of Invensys’ rail business. Now comes news that Schneider Electric has agreed to buy Invensys for 3.4 billion pounds ($5.2 billion).
Official word from the two companies, at this point, is just that — officially approved statements suitable for press releases. Little insight has yet been given as to what this might mean in the near term for current Invensys customers.
In a reply to a request for comment on how this deal will impact existing Invensys customers, Steve Devany, head of corporate communications for Invensys, said: “In terms of customers, there should be no effects in the short term. The deal has to go through several approvals during the next few months and is unlikely to complete until the end of the calendar year. In the meantime, it is very much business as usual. On the personnel front, it is too early to comment upon specific roles, but Schneider have said consistently during negotiations that one of the main attractions of Invensys is the quality of our people.”
由于该交易截至2013年底，因此在2014年之前，我们很了解更多关于如何详细说明如何在对客户支持和产品的可用性的影响下详细处理收购的详细信息之前，这可能会很好。根据路透社的报告称Schneider首席财务官Emmanuel Babeau的一份报告，唯一在这些早期阶段的官员官员唯一的官方官员销售的意图是，可以销往洗衣机的控制机器。
根据Reuters，Schneider与Invensys的交易是公司最大的，因为它以2006年获得了美国电力转换公司，以61亿美元。Invensys采集旨在扩展Schneider的汽车，航空航天和食品和饮料行业的自动化产品，具有Invensys的自动化软件和电动车站，炼油厂和化工厂的硬件。
Most reports are noting that, by adding on Invensys’s hardware and software offerings for the process industries, Schneider is better positioned to compete globally with other large global automation players such as ABB and Siemens.
华尔街日报provided some interesting insight through its observation that, in recent years, Schneider has been making more of a “push into the business of providing industrial sites with bundled offerings of electrical and industrial equipment, software and services, instead of selling low-voltage devices, its historical business. The company is especially keen in developing in emerging markets such as China. Schneider Electric Chief Executive Jean-Pascal Tricoire is based in Hong Kong.”
下面的视频来自金融时报探索为什么在扩大自动化产品方面对施奈德提供良好的业务意义。
