ILION — Global Digital Solutions, Inc. has made an unsolicited offer to buy Remington Outdoor Company for a little more than $1 billion, according to a release from the West Palm Beach, Fla., based company looking to increase its cyber-security and military-related products.
The company filed a Form 8-K with the Securities and Exchange Commission Tuesday offering to buy Remington, also known as Freedom Group, Inc. for $1.082 billion in cash and shares of Global Digital Solutions’ common stock.
A memo circulating to Remington employees from chairman and Chief Executive Officer George Kollitides said the proposition is a “publicity stunt from an agenda-driven group with no credible financing options,” according to the Grand View Outdoors blog.
The growth of the cyber-arms industry prompted the offer, said Global Digital Solution’s chairman and CEO Richard Sullivan in a news release.
“In this dynamic environment, we see enormous opportunity to consolidate this market with a program of targeted acquisitions, including the proposed Freedom transaction,” he said in the release.
The proposed buyout is one of three Global Digital Solutions has proposed. According to the release, it also is putting forward proposals for Digital Angel Corp and Applied Digital Solutions, both commercial technology companies.
Net sales for Freedom Group in 2013 were to be in the range of $1.25 billion and $1.275 billion, according to its 2013 Financial Guidance report released on Dec. 9, 2013.
Steps were being taken in November 2013 to finish a merger of Global Digital Solutions and Airtronic USA, Inc., an engineering company that produces cyber-arms and parts for such weapons.
Remington has a near-200-year-old manufacturing plant in Ilion and recently announced an expansion in Huntsville, Ala., that would support as many as 2,000 jobs.
A call to Sullivan and Teddy Novin, director of marketing and public affairs for Freedom Group, were not immediately returned.
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Coming Soon: Computer Chip Implants For Human Tracking | SHTF Plan
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“… While the FDA says growing your own food is against your best interests, consuming raw milk is dangerous, and alternative medicines need to be controlled by large pharmaceutical companies, subcutaneous passive microchip implants capable of tracking and logging everything from your medical and financial history to your day-to-day movements around the city are perfectly acceptable:
The Food and Drug Administration said that Applied Digital Solutions of Delray Beach, Fla., could market the VeriChip, an implantable computer chip about the size of a grain of rice, for medical purposes.
With the pinch of a syringe, the microchip is inserted under the skin in a procedure that takes less than 20 minutes and leaves no stitches. Silently and invisibly, the dormant chip stores a code that releases patient-specific information when a scanner passes over it.
Think UPC code. The identifier, emblazoned on a food item, brings up its name and price on the cashier’s screen.
The microchips have already been implanted in 1 million pets. But the chip’s possible dual use for tracking people’s movements — as well as speeding delivery of their medical information to emergency rooms — has raised alarm…”
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