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Heartland to buy Textron unit; Trim biz to be part of Collins & Aikman.(Heartland Industrial Partners)(Brief Article)

Crain's Detroit Business, August, 2001 by Sherefkin, Robert

David Stockman's Heartland Industrial Partners has reached an agreement to acquire Textron Inc.'s Troy-based automotive trim business for $1.3 billion, said a source familiar with the deal. The addition of Textron's trim group to Troy-based Collins & Aikman Corp. (NYSE: CKC), in which Heartland has a 60 percent stake, would create a giant parts-maker whose combined sales last year would have totaled $4.3 billion.

Stockman plans to use Textron's instrument-panel and trim business to give Collins & Aikman the size, customer base and global reach to become a major supplier to tier-one automotive giants such as Lear Corp. (NYSE: LEA) and Johnson Controls Inc. (NYSE: JCI). Stockman's acquisition of tier-two suppliers for Collins & Aikman is not complete, the...

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