• Johnson Controls Inc. (Milwaukee) entered into a project development agreement with First Rand Bank Limited (Sandton, South Africa); the first energy performance contract in South Africa.

• ABB (Cary, N.C.) moved its North American corporate headquarters from Norwalk, Conn., to Cary, N.C.

• ITT Corp. (White Plains, N.Y.) signed an agreement to acquire Laing GmbH (Remseck, Germany), a privately held leading producer of energy-efficient circulator pumps primarily used in residential and commercial plumbing and HVAC systems.

Publication date: 04/27/2009