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Cognex Corporation Acquires DVT
If you can’t beat 'em, buy 'em. Well that’s exactly what Cognex did with DVT this week. Yesterday, Cognex announced that they acquired privately-held DVT for $115,000,000.
Cognex has a very broad product offering including high-end and low end vision systems. Cognex's low cost vision offering called InSight, competes head-to-head for factory floor applications with DVT’s Legend. Cognex realized that they didn’t have the sales channel to effectively and efficiently compete with DVT on end-user factory floor applications. So over the past year, Cognex aggressively signed up distributors to sell these low-cost easy-to-use vision products. To date, they have signed 40 new distributors in North America.
With the DVT acquisition (and one motivating factor), Cognex immediately gains 150 distributors worldwide. DVT was very good at finding and managing high-tech distributors, and according to Cognex that methodology and management will stay in place. I have to wonder how this will affect the Cognex newly signed 40 distributors. Will they keep all 190 distributors? Or will they pick and chose the best of breed to sell the complete Cognex/DVT offering. It will be very interesting to see how this all plays out.
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