In the shadow of well-known brands like Volvo and Ericsson, an acquisition-packed decade has made technology firm Hexagon one of Sweden's most valuable companies and a rare newcomer among its top blue chips. The company, market leader in precision measurement technology used in fields from microchip making to surveying dam construction, is now worth more than Swedish world number two white goods maker Electrolux after taking its business so far from its roots as to be unrecognisable.When Ola Rollen stepped through the doors at Hexagon as CEO in 2000, leaving a job as head of a division at engineer Sandvik , he entered a company with lots of businesses but no business idea and scarcely any growth prospects.Founded in 1975, Hexagon was then a sprawling conglomerate with its fingers in everything from tuna fish imports to vehicle hydraulics and, as financier Melker Schorling told Rollen at a meeting in downtown Stockholm in 1999, it was basically garbage.Schorling had bought a controlling stake in the company the year before, aiming to build something from the ground up. Rollen, who first made a name for himself as a young CEO of metals firm Kanthal, had attracted his attention.
Market Leader, Inc., online technology and marketing solutions for real estate professionals across the United States and Canada. Shares of LEDR remained unchanged at $8.95. In the past year, the shares have traded as low as $3.51 and as high as $9.01. On average, 103051 shares of LEDR exchange hands on a given day and today's volume is recorded at 259381.
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