Thomas & Betts to acquire JT Packard & Associates

Thomas & Betts Corp. (T&B), Memphis, agreed to acquire the net assets of power equipment service provider JT Packard & Associates, Madison, Wis., for an estimated net purchase price of $22 million. The transaction is expected to close next week.

JT Packard posted sales in 2009 of approximately $60 million. The company's core business is preventative maintenance and emergency service for uninterruptible power supplies, power distribution units, DC plant and static switches used to ensure a consistent and high-quality flow of power to data centers in a wide variety of industrial and commercial market segments.