X-Rite Acquires Pantone/Extends Reach in Color Industry
Pantone,
headquartered in Carlstadt, NJ, provides the design world with the Pantone Matching System, a system for
identifying, matching and communicating colors to solve color reproduction
problems in the graphic arts market. Pantone has expanded its color matching
system to other industries where accurate color reproductions are critical. It
sells its products, services and technology directly and through hundreds of
licensees in over 100 countries in the graphic arts, fashion, home, interior,
plastics, architectural, paint, industrial design and consumer markets. Pantone
will become a new business unit within X-Rite.