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Danaher Buys EskoArtwork

GENT, BELGIUM—Danish investment group Axcel has come to terms with U.S. industrial company Danaher for the sale of 100 percent of the shares in EskoArtwork for a purchase price of about $470 million. The closing of the transaction is subject 
to customary approvals and is expected 
to take place in the first half of 2011. Upon closing, the business will become a part of Danaher's Product Identification platform.