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Associated Press
21-04-2025
- Business
- Associated Press
HEICO Corporation Acquires Aircraft Interior Display Company
HOLLYWOOD, FL, EUGENE, OR AND DERBY, KS / ACCESS Newswire / April 21, 2025 / HEICO Corporation today announced that its Mid Continent Controls, Inc. ('MC2") subsidiary acquired all of the ownership interests of Rosen Aviation, LLC ('Rosen') for cash consideration paid at closing. Further terms and financial details were not disclosed. HEICO stated that it expects the acquisition to be accretive to its earnings within the year following acquisition. The transaction marks HEICO's fourth acquisition in the past six months. Eugene, OR-based Rosen designs and manufactures in-flight entertainment (IFE) products, principally in-cabin displays and control panels, for the business and VVIP aviation markets. The company will operate as a wholly-owned subsidiary of MC2, which is a niche designer and manufacturer specializing in proprietary in-cabin power and entertainment components and subsystems for business jets. The two businesses believe they can achieve important synergies, including, but not limited to, offering a larger set of aircraft interior IFE solutions integrating their respective products to offer state-of-the art designs and equipment to aircraft manufacturers, operators, completion centers and sub-system suppliers. Founded 45 years ago in 1980, Rosen enjoys a unique pedigree in the business and VVIP aircraft markets through its widely recognized and innovative product lines installed as standard equipment on a significant aircraft base of both in-production and legacy aircraft. MC2 and Rosen are part of the HEICO Electronic Technologies Group's Radiant Power family of companies. Thomas Hemphill, MC2's President, will lead both businesses. Mesirow acted as sole financial advisor to the sellers. HEICO Corporation is engaged primarily in the design, production, servicing and distribution of products and services to certain niche segments of the aviation, defense, space, medical, telecommunications and electronics industries through its Hollywood, Florida-based Flight Support Group and its Miami, Florida-based Electronic Technologies Group. HEICO's customers include a majority of the world's airlines and overhaul shops, as well as numerous defense and space contractors and military agencies worldwide, in addition to medical, telecommunications and electronics equipment manufacturers. For more information about HEICO, please visit our website at Certain statements in this press release constitute forward-looking statements, which are subject to risks, uncertainties and contingencies. HEICO's actual results may differ materially from those expressed in or implied by those forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause such differences include, among others: the severity, magnitude and duration of public health threats, such as the COVID-19 pandemic; our liquidity and the amount and timing of cash generation; lower commercial air travel, airline fleet changes or airline purchasing decisions, which could cause lower demand for our goods and services; product specification costs and requirements, which could cause an increase to our costs to complete contracts; governmental and regulatory demands, export policies and restrictions, reductions in defense, space or homeland security spending by U.S. and/or foreign customers or competition from existing and new competitors, which could reduce our sales; our ability to introduce new products and services at profitable pricing levels, which could reduce our sales or sales growth; product development or manufacturing difficulties, which could increase our product development and manufacturing costs and delay sales; cybersecurity events or other disruptions of our information technology systems could adversely affect our business; and our ability to make acquisitions, including obtaining any applicable domestic and/or foreign governmental approvals, and achieve operating synergies from acquired businesses; customer credit risk; interest, foreign currency exchange and income tax rates; and economic conditions, including the effects of inflation, within and outside of the aviation, defense, space, medical, telecommunications and electronics industries, which could negatively impact our costs and revenues. Parties receiving this material are encouraged to review all of HEICO's filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, but not limited to filings on Form 10-K, Form 10-Q and Form 8-K. We undertake no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except to the extent required by applicable law. SOURCE: HEICO press release
CBS News
14-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Rising metal bands Deathchant and Bewitcher come to the Bottom of the Hill
Two leading lights of the West Coast metal scene visit San Francisco Friday when LA band Deathchant and Portland, OR-based crew Bewitcher bring their co-headlining tour to the Bottom of the Hill. Founded in Los Angeles in 2018 by guitarist/singer T.J. Lemieux, Deathchant takes an aggressive, DIY punk approach to heavy sounds not unlike fellow LA outfit the Shrine. Touching on '70s boogie/hard rock like Wishbone Ash and Thin Lizzy, the same New Wave of British Heavy Metal (NWOBHM) groups that inspired early Metallica, psychedelia and SoCal hardcore, the quartet put out its eponymous first album in 2019 for the King Volume imprint. The band's catchy tunes and reputation for blazing, high-energy live performances soon saw them signed to SoCal heavy psych/metal imprint Riding Easy Records, who put out their second album Waste in 2021. Another frenetic blast of tuneful, neck-snapping tracks that were recorded quickly and simply over the course of two weekends, the record announced Deathchant to a wider audience and invitations to play music festivals, including the 2022 edition of Psycho Las Vegas. In October of 2023, Lemieux and the current line-up of the quartet featuring bassist George Camacho, ex-Banquet guitarist Doug Stuckey and drummer Joe Herzog released the band's third album Thrones. Another caustic combination of raw punk-rock wrath and fluid tandem guitar acrobatics, the collection has been praised by some critics as their most accomplished yet. On this current co-headlining tour, Deathchant shares the stage with Portland headbangers Bewitcher. For the past dozen years, the ferocious trio has been building an international following with relentless touring and four full-length albums of old-school blackened speed metal. The project was started in 2013 by guitarist/singer Mateo von Bewitcher and bassist A. Magus, who drew inspiration from the locomotive fury of Motörhead and the diabolical sounds of early black metal purveyors like Venom and Bathory. The duo began writing and recording songs, finding drummer Rand Crusher aboard two years later to complete the full original line-up. The trio released its eponymous debut recorded with Municipal Waste main man Joel Grind in 2016 and quickly earned rave reviews for their self-described style of "black magick metal." The group toured extensively, supporting such established underground metal giants as Goatwhore, Cavalera and Exhumed. Since the first effort came out, the band has graduated to major metal label Century Media, releasing 2021's Cursed Be Thy Kingdom (the trio's first with new drummer Aris Wales) and the early demos and unreleased tracks compilation Deep Cuts & Shallow Graves before last year's Spell Shock. Produced by Bay Area punk legend Lars Frederiksen of Rancid and Old Firm Casuals fame, the latest collection of songs spotlights some of the Bewitcher's most infectious and hook-laden metal anthems yet. Last spring, the band was one of the highlights of the all-day Omega Fest at the UC Theatre curated by local thrash titans Forbidden. Opening the show is Romanian-born, LA-based crew Persekutor, who released their tuneful Celtic-Frost-meets-the-Scorpions debut Snow Business on Blues Funeral Recordings in 2023. In: Music San Francisco
CBS News
03-03-2025
- Entertainment
- CBS News
Local punk crew Victims Family teams with Portland band for West Coast tour
Veteran Bay Area punk band Victims Family teams with Portland, OR-based heavyweights Nasalrod for a West Coast tour that makes two swings through Northern California. With a partnership dating back nearly four decades, guitarist/vocalist Ralph Spight and bassist Larry Boothroyd have been making a uniquely hectic jazz-punk noise as the core of Victims Family since forming the band in 1984 when they were just a couple of scrawny Santa Rosa teenagers. Bringing together the lyrical venom of the Dead Kennedys and the eclectic punk virtuosity of The Minutemen and NoMeansNo, Victims Family created a ferocious stew of hardcore, jazz, metal, funk and math rock with original drummer Devon VrMeer. Embracing the DIY punk ethos of the time, the young trio booked its first national tour in 1985, honing its chops while sharing the stage with such bands as NOFX, Tales of Terror, the aforementioned DKs and Social Unrest. The band issued its debut album Voltage and Violets on Mordam Records the following year, unleashing Spight's vitriolic social commentary on salvos like "Homophobia" and "God, Jerry, & The P.M.R.C." in addition to writing likely the only instrumental tribute to jazz guitarist George Benson ever performed by a punk band. Victims' follow-up effort Things I Hate To Admit further refined the group's sound with more ear-pleasing, barbed wire hooks on such future fan favorites as "World War IX" and "Corona Belly." VrMeer's departure to start a family led to his short-term replacement by Eric Strand before roadie Tim Solyan stepped in and completed what many consider to be the band's classic line-up. Victims Family crafted what still stands as one of the outstanding punk albums of the decade with 1990's White Bread Blues while furthering their reputation as a blistering live act with multiple U.S. and European tours, sharing the stage with the likes of Nirvana and Primus while having future stars Mr. Bungle and Green Day serve as opening acts. The line-up released a second album, The Germ, in 1992. It was the band's first effort for Alternative Tentacles, but the grind of the road eventually led to a two-year hiatus. A reunion would produce another solid studio effort (Headache Remedy) and a live album that captured Victims' volatile onstage chemistry before Spight and Boothroyd moved on to band projects Saturn's Flea Collar (with the bassist switching to drums) and Hellworms (another trio that featured Bluchunks/Walrus drummer Joaquin Spengemann). Victims Family put out another album with yet another drummer (Apocalicious in 2001 featuring My Name drummer David Gleza behind the kit) before the principles moved on to explore other creative outlets. Spight would front his own band the Freak Accident -- which released its latest album Outer Space Is Boring two years ago with a trio line-up featuring Spight with bassist Henry Austin Lannan (Othered, KnightressM1) and local drumming institution Stark Raving Brad (The Hellbillys, The Mutaytor, Marginal Prophets, Undercover S.K.A. and many others) -- in addition to anchoring Biafra's lauded new band The Guantanamo School of Medicine on guitar, while Boothroyd would tour and record extensively with celebrated experimental outfit Triclops! and Bay Area supergroup Brubaker, though he eventually would be brought in to play bass with Biafra's band. In the midst of the pandemic, the bassist released the ambitious debut studio album by Specimen Box, a complex project that featured the musician constructing four wide-ranging suites of experimental sounds from 60-second recordings he compiled and edited from over 100 collaborators. Boothroyd has since constructed a second Specimen Box album entitled Remote Communion, taking a more song-oriented from a smaller pool of musicians and vocalists (working with "only" 60 contributors) slated for release on the Valley King Records imprint in mid-December with a stunning 3-D cover by noted Bay Area artist Alan Forbes. A third volume is in the works. Despite the challenges presented by the drummer's busy schedule as an in-demand drum tech, semi-regular Victims Family reunions that bring Solyan back into the fold often find fans traveling long distances to catch another brutal live set. More recently, the trio celebrated its 40th anniversary with a special show in Petaluma last November. VF has also embarked on several tours with like-minded Portland, OR-based powerhouse art-punk band Nasalrod. The two groups teamed up to release a split album in 2024. Entitled In the Modern Meatspace, the five hectic and bruising tracks that fill the Victims Family side of the split mark the first new music released by the band since 2012, while the songs from Nasalrod offer a similar dystopian viewpoint on technology, social media and gun violence. For this run of West Coast shows with Nasalrod, Victims will be bringing in drummer Brian Polk from Denver band Joy Subtraction to fill-in for an absent Soya with plans to focus rarely heard album cuts from Apolcalicious and other deep tracks from Hellworms and Saturn's Flea Collar. Fronted by high-energy singer Chairman (aka Jeffrey Couch) and powered by legendary Fear drummer Spit Stix, Nasalrod has been making its kinetic style of ferocious art punk for over a decade, releasing its first 7-inch single in 2012. Nodding at points to such influences as '70s power-pop icons Cheap Trick, the '90s noise-rock of the Jesus Lizard and a variety of experimental bands including the Minutemen, NoMeansNo (who they have been known to cover) and Mr. Bungle, Nasalrod has established itself as one of the most explosive live band's on the Portland scene. Rounded out by bassist Mandy Morgan and guitarist Mustin Douch, the group released its debut studio effort Building Machines in 2017. The songs from that album made up the bulk of the crew's intense 2020 in-concert document Live at Romtoms that was issued on CD and DVD. The first Bay Area date of the two bands' tandem tour stops at the Phoenix Theater in Petaluma with local skate-punk band Right to Remain opening on Friday, March 7. The following night, the show moves to the Ivy Room in Albany with support from experimental rock percussionist Moe! Staino's (Moe!kestra, Sleepytime Gorilla Museum among many other projects) and his post-punk ensemble Surplus 1980. After heading to Nevada for shows in Reno and Las Vegas as well as a date in San Pedro, the tour heads back north to hit the Crepe Place in Santa Cruz on Thursday, March 13, followed by a Friday night show at Cafe Colonial in Sacramento. Noise Clinic opens the Thursday show, with Human Body (featuring Kai Kln guitarist Sherman Loper) playing Friday. Victims Family and Nasalrod Friday, March 7, 8 p.m. $20 (all ages) Phoenix Theater Saturday, March 8, 8 p.m. $21-$23 The Ivy Room Thursday, March 13, 8 p.m. $15-$20 The Crepe Place Friday, March 14, 8 p.m. $21-$23 (all ages) Cafe Colonial
