MacDonald Dettwiler
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| Type | Public TSX: MDA |
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| Founded | 1969 |
| Headquarters | Richmond, BC |
| Key people | Daniel Friedmann (President and CEO) |
| Industry | Information technology services |
| Revenue |  $832.9 million CAD (2005)[1] |
| Net income | $68.1 million CAD (2005)[1] |
| Employees | 3,000+ (2006)[1] |
| Subsidiaries | MDA Space Missions |
| Website | www.mda.ca |
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA) is a Richmond based, Canadian information services and products company, employing over 3000 people throughout Canada, the United States and the United Kingdom, under the MDA brand name.[1]
MDA provides commercial customers, industrial partners, and government, civil, defense, security, space, and R&D agencies with such information systems and solutions as:
- space robotics and satellite information and payload systems,
- Earth observation, airborne, surveillance, intelligence, and environmental monitoring,
- radar and optical satellite imagery and remote sensing,
- mapping, and
- real estate information
- robotic surgery research.
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[edit] History
- 2006 - acquires Lyttle & Co. (Belfast, Northern Ireland), property and related search information[2]
- 2006 - acquires xit2 Ltd. (Nr Charlbury, Oxfordshire, UK), information exchange solutions for lenders and home surveyors and other outsourced service providers[3]
- 2006 - acquires Rochford Brady Group (Dublin, Ireland), legal property and company information search
- 2006 - acquires PropertyFlow (Kent, United Kingdom), property insurance and conveyancing search
- 2006 - expands into financial services with acquisition of Mindbox, a supplier of advanced decision systems for mortgage lending, for $12.6 million USD, with up to $10.75 million contingent on performance[4]
- 2005 - acquires business of EMS Technologies Canada, a major supplier and subcontractor, for $8.9 million[4]
- 2005 - acquires undisclosed supplier of US property information for $300,00 [4]
- 2004 - acquires Marshall & Swift / Boechk for $337.8 million, with $104.9 million contingent on performance.[4]
- 2003 - acquires Millar & Bryce, a commercial provider of land information in Scotland, for $21.32 million, with $1.76 million contingent on performance.[5]
- 2002 - acquires Dynacs for $3.1 million, with an additional $6.8 million contingent on performance[4]
- 2002 - acquires Automated Mining Systems of Aurora, Ontario for $225,000[6]
- 2002 - acquires Earth Satellite; subsidiary becomes MDA Federal
- 2001 - MDA UK launches National Land Information Service (NLIS)
- 2000 - enters joint venture with LandAmerica Financial Group to create LandMDA, a provider of property reports to lenders[7]
- 2000 - acquires Atlantic Technologies of Huntsville, Alabama for $12.5 million on closing and $8.9 million in MDA shares (paid over 3 years); becomes MD Atlantic Technologies
- 2000 - initial public offering; trades as TSX: MDA
- 2000 - acquires DataQuick Information Systems
- 1999 - completes buy-out of Radarsat International from Spar Aerospace, Technology Horizons Ltd., and Lockheed Martin Astronautics
- 1999 - acquires FDI Forest Dimensions, a provider of forestry-related mapping and forest inventory management
- 1999 - acquires Space and Advanced Robotics Division of Spar Aerospace; subsidiary becomes MD Robotics
- 1999 - acquires Terra Surveys (Ottawa)
- 1997 - MDA led consortium purchases BC Online from Province of British Columbia
- 1997 - acquires Triathlon Mapping
- 1997 - acquires Maritime Information Systems business of CANAC/Microtel
- 1996 - acquires Iotek, a supplier of signal processing and sonar technology for military customers, for undisclosed sum[8]
- 1995 - MDA acquired by Orbital Sciences for $67 million in stock[9]
- 1969 - founded by John S. MacDonald and Vern Dettwiler
[edit] See also
[edit] External links
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d MDA 2005 Factsheet. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.
- ^ MDA Acquires Legal Search Firm In Northern Ireland. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.
- ^ MDA Acquires Leading Provider Of Electronic Exchange Solutions To Lenders And Surveyors In UK. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.
- ^ a b c d e Annual Report 2005. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.
- ^ MDA Acquires Leading Land Information Company in Scotland. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.
- ^ MDA Acquires Small Robotic Mining Company. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.
- ^ In Real Estate, Geographic Information and the Internet Changes Everything. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.
- ^ MDA to Acquire Iotek Inc. of Halifax. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.
- ^ "Orbital Sciences Deal", New York Times, 1995-09-06. Retrieved on 2006-07-15.
