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In the News (Fri 17 Feb 12)

  
  Global Exchange : Kevin Danaher
Danaher is the author and/or editor of numerous books, including his latest, Insurrection: Citizen Challenges to Corporate Power [Routledge Press].
Danaher is available for speaking events to discuss grassroots ways to respond to global economic forces and the transition to the local Green Economy.
Danaher is an executive producer of the Green Festivals, two-day events bringing together hundred of green economy companies, social justice and environmental organizations, speakers, live music, organic food and drink, and tens of thousands of attendees hungry for a transition to the green economy.
www.globalexchange.org /getInvolved/speakers/56.html   (869 words)

  
 JS Online: Danaher Corp. poised to rise with economy
Larson says Danaher, with two business lines poised to produce good internal growth and a management team with proven success in making acquisitions, is well-positioned to benefit from an economic recovery.
Danaher has two divisions: a process/environmental controls division that generates about 75% of revenue and a tools and components division.
Danaher's stock is expensive compared with many of its peers on a price-to-earnings basis, but he says that's justified by the company's successful acquisition strategy and ability to improve margins.
www.jsonline.com /bym/invest/may03/144688.asp?format=print   (625 words)

  
 victoriacross   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Danaher had six sons in His Majesty's Forces during the European War.
Danaher, John, Trooper, Nourse's Horse, was born 25th.
Six of John Danaher's sons fought in WW1, with Patrick being killed in action at Gallipoli.
danaher.homestead.com /victoriacross.html   (661 words)

  
 Nueces County Record Star   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Danaher said there are a number of factors that have contributed to her campus' slow, steady rise.
Danaher said the Accelerated Reader program has been accented by rewards for students, including being able to attend autograph parties with the varsity football and baseball teams.
Danaher said in the year before she became principal at Annaville, the faculty sat down together and put together a vision statement for the campus.
www.zwire.com /site/index.cfm?newsid=753125&BRD=1157&PAG=461&dept_id=172072&rfi=9   (542 words)

  
 Briefing: Danaher Acquires Motion Engineering - ARCWire Industry News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
However, it is Danaher's intent to continue to leave SynqNet as an open network in which drive vendors can use it as an integration platform.
This is clearly an excellent opportunity for Danaher and MEI as the motion control market continues to seek global leadership.
Conversely, Danaher's established position in the European market will enable the rapid deployment of a strategy that aims to garner the attention of machine builders seeking to outsource their engineering with a totally integrated machine control solution.
www.arcweb.com /Community/indnews/display.asp?id=5508   (612 words)

  
 Danaher's Books Provoke Some Puzzled Looks
Conspicuous movements in Danaher's balance sheet raise the question of whether acquisition adjustments have given an artificial boost to the company's earnings and cash flows.
Danaher has acquired many businesses this year and last, but its 2000 deals are getting most attention.
A table in Danaher's 2001 annual report, audited by Arthur Andersen, discloses what sort of items "other liabilities" was made up of in 2001 and 2000.
www.thestreet.com /pf/markets/detox/10047305.html   (1507 words)

  
 Welcome to Danaher Motion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Danaher Motion is an organization structured to meet the product, availability and cost needs of distributors, end users, and original equipment manufacturers (OEMs).
Danaher Motion delivers product of the year with innovative direct drive motor technology.
Danaher Motion’s Portescap Turbo Disc™ stepper mini motors were recently featured at the web site for Appliance Magazine.
www.danahermotion.com   (300 words)

  
 Speak Out - Biography and Booking Information: Kevin Danaher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Distinguished by his sense of humor and eloquence, Kevin Danaher is an exceptionally dynamic speaker.
A longtime critic of the so-called "free trade" agenda, Danaher explains how the US must work harder than ever with other countries to reduce poverty and inequality if we want the cooperation of the world's people in ending terrorism.
Having traveled worldwide, Danaher is familiar with the problems and prospects of economic development in many Third World countries.
www.speakersandartists.org /People/KevinDanaher.html   (228 words)

  
 SPOTLIGHT / Kevin Danaher: Part activist and part businessman
It was with this goal in mind that Danaher co-founded Global Exchange in 1988 with his wife, political activist Medea Benjamin, and her friend, Kirsten Moller, the organization's executive director.
While many of his peers were digging fox holes in South Vietnam, Danaher was driving trucks, laying bricks and working factory jobs by day -- leaving his nights free to play bass in a band that made the rounds of strip joints and topless bars.
Danaher is proud of the group's diversification, likening Global Exchange to a centipede that can keep going even if it loses a leg.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/11/05/BUG872PAF4136.DTL   (1362 words)

  
 Bloomberg.com: News & Commentary   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Danaher's goal has been to buy companies that are strong competitors in their own markets, with room to improve efficiency, cut costs and widen profit margins, Kellner says.
Danaher said it often faces competitive bidding for acquisitions and told the SEC it would break out more detail in its regulatory filings about how its acquisition costs are allocated and how goodwill amounts are determined.
Danaher has drawn some unflattering attention from activist investors such as Bethesda, Maryland-based Calvert Group Ltd., which is pushing a shareholder vote on promoting diversity among the company's directors and executives.
quote.bloomberg.com /apps/news?pid=nifea&&sid=ahsZ73xI9bVg   (3442 words)

  
 Ball Screws - Danaher Motion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Danaher Motion combines the quality, strength and expertise of three companies that held strong and definitive footholds in the market: Ball Screws and Actuators Co., Tollo Linear and Thomson Industries.
Each ball screw assembly consists of a screw with a precision ground or rolled helical groove, a nut (the outer race) with an internal groove, and a circuit of precision steel balls that recirculate in the grooves between the screw and nut.
Danaher Motion provides a large array of standard plastic nut assemblies in anti-backlash or standard Supernut® designs.
www.thomsonsaginaw.com   (566 words)

  
 Danaher Profile - DCJobSource.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
In 2004, Danaher had revenues of $6.8 billion, up from $5.29 billion a year ago.
The origin of "Danaher" goes back to the root "Dana," a Celtic word dating from before 700 BC and meaning "swift flowing".
In the early 1980's, the vision of a manufacturing company, dedicated to continuous improvement and customer satisfaction, was conceived during a fishing trip on the Danaher, a tributary to the south fork of the Flat Head River in western Montana.
dcjobsource.com /danaher.html   (122 words)

  
 CNN.com - Cooper rejects Danaher's $5.5 billion bid - Aug. 8, 2001
Danaher (DHR: Research, Estimates), which manufactures Sears Craftsman tools and environmental testing equipment, offered to buy Cooper (CBE: Research, Estimates) last week for $54-to-$58 a share in cash and stock.
Danaher made its unsolicited offer just as Cooper's board was preparing to vote on whether to reincorporate in Bermuda from Ohio.
Danaher may sweeten its bid and a revised offer could come in the $60-to-$65 range, Lucas said.
edition.cnn.com /2001/BUSINESS/08/08/cooper   (661 words)

  
 Danaher Announces Sale of Leica Geosystems Shares
Danaher Corporation is a leading manufacturer of Professional Instrumentation, Industrial Technologies, and Tools and Components.
Reference is made to the Danaher offer prospectus and any supplements thereto by and on the terms of which the Danaher offer is being made.
The release, publication or distribution of this announcement in certain jurisdictions may be restricted by law and therefore persons in any such jurisdictions into which this announcement is released, published or distributed should inform themselves about and observe such restrictions.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/09-15-2005/0004107843&EDATE=   (193 words)

  
 Danaher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The name of the company was conceived when the two founders Steven and Mitchell Rales was on a fishing trip on the Danaher, a tributary to the south fork of the Flat Head River in western Montana.
Danaher is a global company working with motion control, electronic test and measurement equipment, hand tools, industrial controls and aviation safety equipment as an example. 
In the Danaher Motion Components Group, to which Tollo Linear belongs, there are companies and brand names like Thomson, Kollmorgen Seidel, Pacific Scientific, BSA, API and Inmotion Technologies making the group one of the strongest in the world in motion control.
www.tollo.com /danaher.htm   (134 words)

  
 PROFILE IN INGENUITY: Danaher Corporation
The story of the remarkable Danaher turn-around, which kept 300 jobs in the area, is one of Yankee ingenuity, state- of-the-art Japanese manufacturing techniques, strong community support and CMP expertise.
It is a key part of Danaher's Tool Group which manufacturers a broad range of hand tools, components and accessories for consumer, industrial and professional markets.
After consulting with the Danaher engineers, CMP staff developed an animated digital simulation of the cell that not only would visually represent the machine configurations, but also would allow for the real time modeling of material flow and manufacturing processes and determine the best possible cell design.
www.ecs.umass.edu /cmprod/dan.html   (785 words)

  
 Baseline: Danaher Corp.: Leaner Machine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
As vice president of supply chain management at Danaher Sensors and Controls, a division of the $6 billion industrial conglomerate Danaher Corp., Mathis bucked corporate tradition when he proposed adding computerization to a manufacturing process known for achieving efficiency without it.
Since the 1980s, Danaher had been acquiring smaller companies and wringing more efficiency from them by applying lean techniques aimed at driving down inventory levels and speeding up manufacturing, mostly by analyzing and improving the flow of parts and products through its factories.
After joining Danaher in 2002, Mathis concluded he would have to overcome that resistance if he was to achieve goals such as lowering costs by procuring more parts from overseas.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_zdbln/is_200506/ai_n13639626   (1360 words)

  
 Danaher > Businesses > Strategic Platforms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Danaher Motion is changing the way things move by providing innovative solutions offering flexibility, precision, efficiency, and reliability for applications as diverse as robotics, wheelchairs, lift trucks, electric vehicles, and packaging machines.
Danaher’s printing and marking technology applies codes to more than one trillion products each year worldwide.
Danaher is committed to delivering customer-driven innovation with new products that improve safety, strength, speed and access.
www.danaher.de /business/strategic.asp   (314 words)

  
 BW 50: Danaher Profile
Analysts have questioned the high level of goodwill on Danaher's balance sheet, and wonder how the company will maintain its acquisition-fueled growth.
Danaher Corporation engages in the design, manufacture, and marketing of industrial and consumer products.
Danaher is headquartered in Washington, D.C. No. of Employees
www.businessweek.com /bw50/2005/company/DHR.htm   (433 words)

  
 Danaher Won't Match Bid For Swiss Surveying Firm
Danaher Corp., a District-based industrial conglomerate, yesterday said it was standing pat on its offer to buy a Swiss surveying firm despite a higher competing bid from a Swedish company.
Danaher has bought more than 40 companies in the past 20 years since it was founded as a holding company controlled by the brothers Mitchell P. and Steven M. Rales.
Danaher also said the resulting combination of Hexagon and Leica would be heavily indebted.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/16/AR2005081601718.html?nav=rss_business/localbusiness   (688 words)

  
 Danaher Corporation Schedules Third Quarter 2004 Earnings Call
The call will be simultaneously webcast live via Danaher's website at http://www.danaher.com with an accompanying slide presentation.
Danaher's earnings press release for the 2004 third quarter and its 10-Q for the 2004 third quarter will be available prior to the call on Danaher's website beginning at 6:00 a.m.
Danaher Corporation is a leading manufacturer of Process / Environmental Controls and Tools and Components.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/10-01-2004/0002263324&EDATE=   (226 words)

  
 Servo Drives come with built-in power supply., Danaher MotionKollmorgen
S300 servo drives complement Danaher Motion’s family of Kollmorgen S600 series drives, which are designed for higher power servo applications, resulting in the most flexible, broadest power range family of drives available today.
Danaher Motion is a leading global manufacturer of motion control products that improve the efficiency and productivity of complex manufacturing operations.
Danaher Motion is a strategic business platform of the Danaher Corporation (NYSE:DHR), a manufacturer of process and environmental controls, tools and industrial components.
news.thomasnet.com /fullstory/453191   (913 words)

  
 Pacific Scientific - About Danaher   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Danaher Corporation designs, manufactures and markets innovative products, services and technologies with strong brand names and significant market position.
Danaher, a global multi-billion dollar company, is comprised of five strategic platforms that account for over 75% of revenues.
Danaher is a world leader in the manufacture, distribution and service of electronic test tools and software for electrical, industrial, electronic and calibration applications.
www.psemc.com /danaher.asp   (257 words)

  
 Danaher Industrial Controls – Rotary Encoders – Motion Control Instruments   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Danaher Industrial Controls Group (DICG) acquires PMA (Prozess- und Maschinen-Automation) GmbH of Kassel, Germany from Geveke Industrial Group, headquartered in the Netherlands.  Now for the first time, this highly respected European brand of digital multi-function controllers and associated products are available in North America with local support.
Danaher Industrial Controls Group produces monitoring, sensing and motion control products and was formed through the merger of many premier brands, each widely respected within their distinct product categories.
Danaher Industrial Controls Group is a division of Danaher, a Fortune 500 company with offices in over 30 countries around the world.
www.danaherindustrialcontrols.com   (162 words)

  
 Danaher Business System - Radiometer Analytical
In the mid-1980s, a Danaher division faced with intensifying competition launched an improvement effort based on the then-new principles of lean manufacturing.
Since this modest beginning, DBS has evolved from a collection of manufacturing improvement tools into a philosophy, set of values, and series of management processes that collectively define who we are and how we do what we do.
Fueled by Danaher's core values, the DBS engine drives the company through a never-ending cycle of change and improvement: exceptional people develop outstanding plans and execute them using world-class tools to construct sustainable processes, resulting in superior performance.
www.radiometer-analytical.com /en_dbs.asp   (167 words)

  
 Precision screw forming challenges screw grinding: News from Danaher Motion   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
Accuracy that rivals ground - while Danaher Linear's new PSF cold-formed screw technology is basically a rolling process, it's far different than the traditional rolling process used to produce most rolled ball screws.
A PSF screw is the virtual equal in accuracy and performance to a ground screw.
Danaher's PSF technology is capable of consistently producing P3-class screws in accordance with the ISO 3408 standard.
www.manufacturingtalk.com /news/dna/dna110.html   (800 words)

  
 The Independent - News - 11/07/2003 - Angelini happy; Danaher hopeful   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
The Town Board may no longer be comprised entirely of Democrats, however, as Republican Philip Danaher finished ahead of incumbent Kim Halloran by 72 votes.
Aesthetic improvements and rezoning along Route 9/20, continued upgrades of sewer and water systems, expansion of the town park, road work, and installing sidewalks in Hampton Manor and along 9/20 to the University at Albany, are some of the projects on Mr.
Danaher said no matter what the final vote tally is, he will remain active in town government.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=10478438&BRD=248&PAG=461&dept_id=462341&rfi=6   (455 words)

  
 Eye on Elections   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11)
However, Danaher Controls does not have access to City DRE voting devices so they would be unable to change the chips without City knowledge.
The Danaher and Sequoia full face DRE voting devices, like their technological predecessor, the mechanical lever voting machine, do not require paper ballots or receipts to determine the intent of the voter.
This indicates to the voter that the DRE voting device will record a vote for all candidates whose lights are on and provides the voter the opportunity to quickly review their selections before executing their ballot by pressing the vote button.
www.seventy.org /electioninfo/Philadelphia_City_Commissioners_Office_Report_on_Proposed.htm   (8474 words)

  
 Danaher Thrives on Discipline
Danaher was bidding against Honeywell International Inc. for First Technology and appeared to have won the auction with a $634 million offer.
Danaher had acquired almost 15 million shares of First Tech and could make close to $1 a share by selling them to Honeywell.
Danaher executives did not return phone calls seeking comment on First Technology, but Culp talked about the transaction that didn't happen Thursday during a conference call with analysts after Danaher reported a record 2005 profit of $907.7 million, up from $746 million the year before.
www.washingtonpost.com /wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/29/AR2006012900521.html?nav=rss_business/localbusiness   (429 words)

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