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Article: Agfa Monotype is Acquired by TA Associates; Changes Name to Monotype Imaging.
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- Business Wire
- Article date:
- November 5, 2004
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BOSTON & WILMINGTON, Mass. -- Agfa Monotype Corp., a worldwide provider of fonts and imaging technologies, and TA Associates, a leading private equity and buyout firm, today announced that TA Associates has purchased a majority interest in Agfa Monotype from Agfa Corp., the U.S. subsidiary of the Belgium-based Agfa-Gevaert Group. Employees of Agfa Monotype hold the remaining interest in the privately held company, which has been renamed Monotype Imaging Inc.
"The sale represents the unfolding of a plan our management team started four years ago," said Robert M. Givens, who remains as president and chief executive officer of the company. "Although we've been ...