ClydeUnion Pumps sold to SPX Corp. for £750m

From Yahoo! UK and Ireland Finance: Scottish entrepreneur Jim McColl has sold ClydeUnion Pumps, just four years after acquiring the business for £45m. Jim McColl, one of Scotland’s wealthiest businessmen, has sold ClydeUnion Pumps the company that first employed him as a 16 year old apprentice to an American group for £750m.

The deal with SPX Corporation (NYSE: SPW - news) represents a remarkable turnaround in ClydeUnion’s fortunes, four years after the industrial pumps group was created from the £45m acquisition of the struggling Glasgow-based Weir Pumps business.

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ClydeUnion Pumps sold to SPX for £750m

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Clyde Pumps Ltd., Has Selected Intelliquip’s Intelligent Front-EndSM to Streamline the Front-end Sales Processes for Newly Formed CLYDEUNION

From Centredaily.com: Intelliquip’s Intelligent Front-End^SM (IFE) was selected to provide the global web sales platform for CLYDEUNION, the pump division of Clyde Blowers, which was rebranded after Clyde Blower’s recent acquisition of Textron’s Fluid & Power Division, including Union Pump. As a result of this, other strategic acquisitions, and joint ventures, Clyde has rapidly become a global player in the engineered to order pump industry.

Clyde has opted to deploy the full, comprehensive solution provided by Intelliquip’s Intelligent Front-End^SM (IFE), which includes the Intelliquip Selector, Intelliquip Configurator, and Intelliquip Quote Manager. Intelliquip’s technology provides a proven, robust platform for the digitization of Clyde’s complex and diverse product lines and the subsequent deployment of performance and configuration data to all sales channels via the web.

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Clyde Pumps Ltd., Has Selected Intelliquip’s Intelligent Front-EndSM to Streamline the Front-end Sales Processes for Newly Formed CLYDEUNION

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