Hill & Smith goes stateside for $42m acquisition
Hill & Smith has bought American safety products manufacturer Work Area Protection Corp (WAPCO) for $42m (£31m).
The Shirley-based group, which has major road infrastructure contracts, has added on the business which makes a wide range of road work zone safety products, from temporary variable message signs to cones.
WAPCO is based in Illinois and Texas and has annual revenues of around £35m.
Hill & Smith's group chief executive Derek Muir said: "WAPCO offers a wide range of innovative solutions for the traffic safety and ... You can carry on reading TheBusinessDesk.com for free, but you have reached the maximum number of pages an unregistered user can view. To register for an account, click here or login below...
