“Hat tip” to rob for this link about what it means for an american company to be sold to a foreigner.
Ya know I had been wondering about whether we would have to rename our fries, toast, and cafe. After 2003 when France spoke out against the US led invasion of Iraq, the company went to some weird extremes to disassociate themselves with anything french. Renaming anything (it seems) with the word “France” or “French” in it. Thus the birth of our Freedom Fries etc.
The Pelco acquisition I reported earlier confirms the rumors that we had been hearing for many weeks turned out to be pretty accurate after all. It was a pretty interesting time here at Pelco, and will no doubt the future will continue to be interesting.
I wish I could have blogged about this before, but many things had prevented this. Not least of which was the fact that my employers did not want any information to be on the internet. I have been kept very busy because impact of this of late, and am looking forward to finishing the new line of products I have been working on for the past few months. More on this another time (after launch). Now is an exciting time to be at Pelco, and I strongly encourage anyone looking for tech work in the central valley to apply for jobs here. Not only are we still hiring (and will be for a while trust me), the future for engineering is very bright because of the acquisition.
The company I work for, Pelco, has announced today that they are being acquired by Schneider Electric of France.
The CEO David McDonald believes that this is a great step forward for the company, and does not expect the day to day running and operation of the company to change.
