(BSNS WIRE) Pen Interconnect Signs Letter Of Intent To Purchase Dallas, Pen Interconnect Signs Letter Of Intent To Purchase Dallas, Texas, Contract Manufacturing Company Business Editors IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 27, 1999--Pen Interconnect, Inc. (OTC BB: PENC), announced today that it has signed a letter of intent to purchase The Gammon Group, a private contract manufacturing company in Dallas, Texas, and a local affiliate of Gammon. The Gammon Group, and its affiliate currently manufacture for the electronics and medical industries products such as electronic assemblies, power supplies and cabinets as well as motor generators for the RV and boating industries. They have combined annual revenues in the $10 million range. "The Dallas-Fort Worth area is expanding rapidly and the need for contract manufacturing is readily evident," said Stephen J. Fryer, Pen Interconnect President & CEO. "This acquisition expands Pen Interconnect's directed focus on contract manufacturing and power supply design and manufacturing in a geographic area about which we are enormously bullish." Terms of the acquisition, which will be a stock transaction, were not disclosed. "We will retain the excellent management at the Gammon Group and it will become a wholly owned division of Pen Interconnect," Fryer said. "We anticipate closing this transaction before the end of the year." |