Thales Buys Optics Maker SESO for Undisclosed Sum

摘要

French defense electronics group Thales has agreed to purchase SESO, a small precision-optics manufacturer, in a move that will augment Thales' in-house ability to produce satellite optical sensors through its majority-owned Thales Alenia Space satellite manufacturing unit, Thales announced.rnFinancial terms were not disclosed. SESO -a French acronym for European Optical Systems Co.-is expected to report about 12 million euros ($16 million) in revenue in 2010, 80 percent of it fromrncustomers outside France.