Variflex Inc., a maker of in-line skates, skateboards and athletic equipment, agreed to be bought by the closely held Bravo Sports for about $38 million.
Elsewhere in Africa Niepold's portfolio includes Standard Chartered Ghana, a bank, and Filtisac, a maker of bags, sacks and fishing line that is listed in Abidjan.
Emerson, a 112-year-old manufacturer of electric motors, is recasting itself into a maker of high-tech gear for factory lines.
Emerson, the 112-year-old manufacturer of electric motors, is recasting itself into a maker of high-tech gear for factory lines (FORBES, Dec. 24, 2001).
After two years of research, Manzella, a maker of sports gloves, is introducing a line of running gloves this month made of materials that wick water and block the wind.
But seniors are now more willing to spend money on technology that enhances their lives, said Levent Bektas, the head of sales for DSC-Zettler, a maker of large-button mobile and fixed-line phones in Petershausen, Germany.
His employer, Tellabs, a maker of communications equipment, canceled the product line Mr. Carrara was working on when it cut 6percentt of its work force, or about 550 people, in April.
Her father works on the production line at Pierce Manufacturing, a maker of fire trucks in Appleton, Wis.
The merger of Kakao and Daum, which will create one of South Korea's largest Internet companies, puts KakaoTalk in a better position to compete against Naver, South Korea's largest Internet portal and the maker of Line, which is aiming for one billion users by the end of 2015.
Taipei-based Gogolook itself was purchased by Naver, the maker of Line messaging app, in 2013 for about $17.6 million.
