was formed when major English cable-manufacturing group British Insulated Callender's Cables acquired the Vero Group in a 1979 move to enter new technology sectors. The Vero Electronics Ltd offices and factories remained operative in the 1975 locations until 1981 but in 1982 the company name was changed to BICC-Vero Electronics Ltd. BICC-Vero acquired the Imhof Group of England in 1986 and the "IMRAK" cabinet business was built up. The IMRAK 1400 cabinets had evolved from work on electronics enclosure systems based on the 19-inch rack originally developed by Alfred lmhof Limited, London. Vero Group Plc originated when the Vero Group was separated from BICC in a management buyout (MBO) with backing from investors and was renamed Vero Electronics Group Ltd - the name changing to Vero Group Plc in 1995. Applied Power, Inc. (The US company founded in 1910 and to become Actuant Corporation in 2001) acquired the Vero Group for $191.7 million in 1998 after sales of $170 million and earnings of $17 million had been recorded for 1997. APW Electronics Group Plc was the new name for Vero Group Plc after Applied Power restructuring in 1999. In 2007 the APW Electronics Group went into administration and ceased trading. The original company Vero Electronics Ltd (Company No 00701364 Limited) was dissolved 13 Aug 2009 - after 48 years trading. The South Mill Rd works site has been replaced by a housing development named Avro Close. Successors Vero Technologies Ltd was formed in 2003 when APW sold off the prototyping business (Veroboard). The company is located at Hedge End, Hampshire where they continue operations supplying a range of electronic components including stripboard and Veroboard. Verotec Ltd was originally formed as Backplane Systems Ltd in 2005 and acquired the intellectual property rights to many of the Vero products (other than Veroboard) from the APW administrators in 2007. In 2013 they had facilities at Chandler's Ford UK, Derry NH USA and Bailleul-sur-Thérain France References Note - Duedil.com website requires registration (free) Companies based in Southampton Defunct engineering companies of the United Kingdom Machine tool builders Electronics companies of the United Kingdom