Emerson to Acquire Motorola’s Embedded Communications Computing Business

Emerson and Motorola announced that the two companies have entered into a definitive agreement under which Emerson will acquire Motorola’s Embedded Communications Computing (ECC) business for $350 million in cash. The ECC business, which had 2006 revenue of approximately $520 million, has 1,100 employees and develops and sells embedded computing products and services to communication infrastructure and equipment manufacturers in telecommunications, medical imaging, defense and aerospace and industrial automation.