date:Mar 28, 2013
ten I find company executives just have really poor imagination, Rollen said. Just because you run a paper mill doesn't mean you have to keep on trudging on the same spot.
Hexagon's four biggest deals - Brown Sharpe, Swiss Leica Geosystems, Canadian NovAtel and U.S. Intergraph - cost nearly $4 billion and group sales have more than quadrupled since 1999 to 2.38 billion euros ($3.08 billion).
In the same period its operating margin has risen to 20.6 percent from below 5 percent, underpinning a