The Rising Influence of Rising Affluence

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HON plans 3-way separation into home,transport,aerospace companies:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/honeywell-to-spin-off-units-into-two-stand-alone-companies-1507634203

Honeywell International plans to spin off its home and transportation businesses into two new separate companies while retaining most of its core aerospace business, a first effort to streamline the conglomerate under new Chief Executive Darius Adamczyk.

…the new homes and ADI Global Distribution business, which will include residential building controls and security and fire-protection products, would generate annual revenue of $4.5 billion. The transportation business, a portion of the company’s current aerospace unit, would focus on turbocharger technologies for automobiles and trucks and generate annual revenue of $3 billion. The entire company generated $39 billion of revenue last year.

…Honeywell expects the separations, which won’t require a shareholder vote, to be complete by the end of 2018. The new homes business will have about 13,000 employees while the transportation business will have about 6,500.

3-way split-ups are in vogue, evidently. DWDP is also doing one (#msg-134548181). ITT completed one a few years ago.

HON tried to acquire UTX in 2016 (#msg-120761918).