Local Firm Buys Another

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Muhammed El-Hasan
on January 13, 2009 12:45 PM | | Comments (0) |

Pelican Products, the Torrance-based maker of hard plastic cases and durable flashlights, purchased competitor Hardigg Industries for $200 million, the South Bay firm said Tuesday.

The combined company will employ more than 1,500 employees. Pelican Products will operate in 12 countries, have 22 offices globally and maintain six manufacturing locations throughout Europe and North America.

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Muhammed El-Hasan, a business reporter at the Daily Breeze since 2000, covers aerospace and everything else about business in the South Bay. Muhammed previously reported at the San Bernardino Sun and the community news division of The Orange County Register. He also worked as a researcher in the Jerusalem bureau of the Los Angeles Times in 1996-97. But his career highlight as a young man was driving a forklift at a Gardena company near Hawthorne, where he grew up.

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