The number of M&A transactions within the broad world of safety equipment and services continues to hold, and even to climb slightly into 2017. Published predictions today talk more often about “steady activity” and “cautious optimism” – significantly less bullish than the predictions we would have heard a few years ago. The number of really large mega-transactions in the industry, however, took a slight pause for 2016, and appears less likely to climb for 2017.
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