Intermec is a manufacturer and supplier of automated identification and data capture equipment, including

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s, barcode printers, mobile computers,

RFID Radio-frequency identification (RFID) uses electromagnetic fields to automatically identify and track tags attached to objects. An RFID system consists of a tiny radio transponder, a radio receiver and transmitter. When triggered by an electromag ...

systems, voice recognition systems, and life cycle services. Intermec holds patents in

(Radio Frequency Identification) and customers include 75 percent of

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companies and 60 percent of

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companies. Intermec was traded on the

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. On December 10, 2012, Intermec announced it agreed to be acquired by Honeywell International Inc. in an all-cash transaction valued at approximately $600 million. The Merger was approved by Intermec’s stockholders on March 19, 2013 and received regulatory approval from the European Commission on June 14, 2013. FTC clearance was announced on September 13, 2013. On September 17, 2013, Honeywell announced the completion of the acquisition of Intermec. Intermec will be integrated with Honeywell Scanning & Mobility, within the Honeywell Automation and Control Solutions (ACS) business.

Products

The majority of Intermec's business comes from automating supply chain operations in

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warehouse A warehouse is a building for storing goods. Warehouses are used by manufacturers, importers, exporters, wholesalers, transport businesses, customs, etc. They are usually large plain buildings in industrial parks on the outskirts of citie ...

and

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retail Retail is the sale of goods and Service (economics), services to consumers, in contrast to wholesaling, which is sale to business or institutional customers. A retailer purchases goods in large quantities from manufacturing, manufacturers, dire ...

transportation Transport (in British English), or transportation (in American English), is the intentional movement of humans, animals, and goods from one location to another. Modes of transport include air, land ( rail and road), water, cable, pipelin ...

and logistics, direct store delivery and field service sectors. Their product lines include: *

(Radio Frequency Identification) readers, printers, tags and labels * Barcode scanners, Barcode printers and Media *

Mobile computers Mobile computing is human–computer interaction in which a computer is expected to be transported during normal usage, which allows for the transmission of data, voice, and video. Mobile computing involves mobile communication, mobile hardware ...

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s * Software Tools and Utilities * Voice recognition hardware systems and software * Lifecycle Services

Corporate timeline

*1966 – Interface Mechanisms formed *1982 – Company renamed Intermec Corporation *1991 – Acquired by Litton Industries, Inc. (NYSE:LIT) *1994 – Ownership transferred to Western Atlas Inc. (NYSE:WAI), a Litton spin-off *1997 – Ownership transferred to UNOVA, Inc. (NYSE:UNA), a Western Atlas spin-off *1997 – Acquired Norand and UBI (United Barcode Industries) *1997 – Acquired radio frequency identification (RFID) semiconductor technology from IBM, Inc. *1998 – Acquired Amtech Corporation's high-frequency RFID business, Amtech Transportation Systems *2006 – UNOVA, Inc. becomes Intermec, Inc., retaining Intermec Technologies as subsidiary *2011 - Acquired private voice technology company Vocollect Inc. and life cycle services company Enterprise Mobile *2013 - Acquired by Honeywell, now part of Honeywell Scanning and Mobility

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