Westrn Pacific Industries Inc. - circa 1970's Specimen Stock Certificate
Inv# SE3926 Specimen Stock
Delaware
New York
Specimen Stock printed by Security-Columbian Banknote Company. Western Pacific Industries Inc. has accepted a $ 163-a-share tender offer from Danaher Corp., of Washington, which is controlled by takeover specialists Steven and Mitchell Rales. The offer for the New York-based manufacturing company will total $ 378.1 million. Howard A. Newman, chairman of Western Pacific, said yesterday, "I think it is an excellent bid for the stockholders." He said he had been approached on several previous occasions by individuals interested in buying the company. Starting with a real estate investment company, the Rales brothers have made a series of industrial acquisitions in the last several years. Western Pacific Industries is a $ 168 million manufacturing company employing about 2,600 people in the U.S. and abroad. The firm makes industrial fasteners and a variety of counting and control devices, such as those found in mechanical pumps. Read more at https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/business/1986/10/07/western-pacific-purchased-by-dcs-danaher-corp/7f489604-c203-45c3-b713-b8a614ba7c42/
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