Zebra changes stripes, extending technology reach, market scope.(Company overview)

From: Manufacturing Business Technology | Date: January 1, 2008 | Copyright information

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As a global leader in bar-code printing, Zebra Technologies startled some market watchers in January 2007 with its $126-million cash acquisition of WhereNet, one of the largest and best-known suppliers of real-time location systems, or RTLS.

'When the WhereNet acquisition was announced, we got calls from people who couldn't understand what Zebra was doing,' says Drew Nathanson, director of AIDC/RFID technology for Venture Development Corp. (VDC), a Natick, Mass.-based industry analyst firm. 'But it was perfectly clear to us that they wanted to shatter their ...

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