Manufacturing  January 29, 2020

Woodward expects smooth merger transition despite looming antitrust scrutiny

FORT COLLINS — Woodward Inc. (Nasdaq: WWD) CEO Tom Gendron pushed a sense of long-term confidence for his company in what could be Woodward’s final annual shareholder meeting before it combines with Hexcel Corp. (NYSE: HXL).

Speaking at the company’s annual shareholder meeting in Fort Collins Wednesday morning, Gendron said the pending merger with Connecticut-based Hexcel makes sense for investors as it plans to buy back $1.5 billion worth of its stock in the months after the deal’s close, and the new company would have the size to take on the research departments of other aerospace supplier…

Christopher Wood
Christopher Wood is editor and publisher of BizWest, a regional business journal covering Boulder, Broomfield, Larimer and Weld counties. Wood co-founded the Northern Colorado Business Report in 1995 and served as publisher of the Boulder County Business Report until the two publications were merged to form BizWest in 2014. From 1990 to 1995, Wood served as reporter and managing editor of the Denver Business Journal. He is a Marine Corps veteran and a graduate of the University of Colorado Boulder. He has won numerous awards from the Colorado Press Association, Society of Professional Journalists and the Alliance of Area Business Publishers.

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