Article: Ponder Industries signs letter of intent to acquire fishing tool company in Mississippi.

ALICE, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 11, 1996--Ponder Industries Inc. (NASDAQ, PNDR, BSE: PND), announced today that it has signed a letter of intent to acquire Bosco Fishing and Rental Tools Inc. of Laurel, MS, a privately-held company with annual revenues of approximately $1.5 million.

Bosco supplies oilfield customers onshore Mississippi and Alabama and offshore Mississippi, Alabama and Florida.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Larry Armstrong, chairman and chief executive officer of Ponder, said, "Bosco will be our ninth acquisition, either completed or under contract, ...

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