General Electric announced in 2000 it would attempt to acquire Honeywell; at the time, Honeywell was valued at over $21 billion.

In 1999 AlliedSignal acquired Honeywell and adopted the Honeywell name.

In 1999 AlliedSignal acquired Honeywell and renamed the merged company Honeywell International Inc.

Still, acquiring Honeywell would have helped a lot.

Allied later went on to merge with the Signal Companies in 1985 to form AlliedSignal which acquired Honeywell in 1999 and then assumed the Honeywell name.

G.E. attempted to acquire Honeywell in 2001, but the deal was scuttled when European regulators deemed it to be anticompetitive.

Allied-Signal acquired Honeywell in 1999, and changed the name of the resulting company to Honeywell International.

The company would eventually acquire Honeywell in 1999 and then adopt its name.

Although its deal to acquire Honeywell was killed by the European Commission on July 3, the merger agreement remains in place until the end of November.

In 1999, AlliedSignal acquired Honeywell and took its more-recognizable name.