color consolidation

In a recent press release, Danaher Corporation on 2200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW in Washington, D.C. announced that it purchased X-Rite for approximately $625 million. X-Rite had purchased Pantone and Gretag, and the latter had purchased Macbeth. Danaher already owns well-known brands like Tektronix, Fluke, Leica Microsystems, Beckman Coulter, Videojet, and Esco (a leader in industrial digital printing) among others.