Our decentralized operating model is core to our culture. We believe it allows our businesses to be nimble and quick–making decisions locally through close customer contact. Our decentralized model is also an ideal platform for companies that we acquire. It ensures that our businesses continue to operate as successfully as they did prior to our ownership but with the strength of the group behind them.
Becoming part of Ingersoll Rand also provides access to capital. We believe in continuing to invest in our businesses whether through supporting expansion and innovation or through follow-on acquisitions.
Ingersoll Rand businesses provide high-impact, highly engineered products used in industrial processes. Many of our successful acquisitions were family businesses with long operating histories–some over 100 years. Typically Ingersoll Rand businesses have the following characteristics: