Honeywell nowadays introduced that it has agreed to promote its Productiveness Answers and Products and services (PSS) trade to Brady Company, a global producer of identity and coverage answers, for $1.4 billion in an all-cash transaction. The PSS buisness is Honeywell’s mobility and scanning trade. The transaction is predicted to be finished in the second one part of 2026 and is matter to regulatory approvals and common final prerequisites.
The transaction follows the evaluation of strategic choices Honeywell commenced in July 2025 for PSS and its Warehouse and Workflow Answers (WWS) trade to additional simplify the corporate’s portfolio along the deliberate spin-off of its Aerospace trade, which is predicted to be entire within the 3rd quarter of 2026. Honeywell stays actively engaged in its overview of strategic choices for WWS, which operates commercially beneath the logo names Intelligrated and Transnorm.
“With the PSS divestiture, we’re nearing of completion of our multi-year portfolio transformation, additional accelerating worth advent as we get ready to split our Aerospace and Automation companies into two impartial business main public firms. The sale additionally permits us to proceed strengthening our monetary and operational focal point at the corporate’s core companies,” stated Vimal Kapur, Chairman and CEO of Honeywell.
“Going ahead, PSS will get pleasure from Brady’s extremely complementary and specialised management in business identity and protection, making a broader, extra built-in providing for warehouse, logistics and production shoppers,” Kapur added.
With 2025 income of roughly $1.1 billion, PSS is a number one supplier of cellular computer systems, barcode scanners and printing answers serving the warehouse and logistics marketplace. PSS is recently a part of Honeywell’s Commercial Automation (IA) trade portfolio.
Brady Company is a global producer and marketer of high-performance labels, indicators, protection gadgets and printing methods for industries that come with electronics, production and aerospace. Brady supplies merchandise that reinforce protection, safety and productiveness. The purchase of PSS will lend a hand construct Brady’s features in information seize, cellular computing and workflow automation, expanding its portfolio serving business and logistics shoppers, whilst making a extra built-in, finish‑to‑finish productiveness and protection platform.
This announcement follows the divestiture of Honeywell’s Non-public Protecting Apparatus (PPE) trade in 2024 and the spin-off of its Complex Fabrics trade as Solstice Complex Fabrics in October 2025. It additionally builds at the prior strategic movements Honeywell has taken to pressure natural expansion and optimize its portfolio, together with pronouncing roughly $14 billion of accretive and synergistic acquisitions since 2023: Compressor Controls Company, SCADAfence, the Get entry to Answers trade from Service World, Civitanavi Methods, CAES Methods, the LNG trade from Air Merchandise, Sundyne, Li-ion Tamer and Johnson Matthey’s Catalyst Applied sciences Industry.
Centerview Companions is serving as monetary guide to Honeywell. Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Baker McKenzie and Womble Bond Dickinson are offering exterior criminal suggest.
