Shape shifting
14 June 2017

At a price of almost $20 bln, the Swedish manufacturing software group offers a poor return for a buyer. That may not deter a rival such as ABB tooling up for the switch to automated factories. If globalisation goes into retreat, such a deal could even prove forward-thinking.
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