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The Attachmate Group company history timeline

1991

Vigorous financial growth ensued, giving the company a $90 million sales volume by 1991, when Pritt, then in his early 60s, decided to step back from his responsibilities at the Bellevue-based company.

1992

In 1992, the company generated $123 million in sales, representing nearly a ten-fold increase during a five-year period.

1993

In his June 18, 1993 interview with the Puget Sound Business Journal, he remarked: "Our product was going into a sophisticated environment that required a lot of expertise and knowledge to sell.

1994

In November 1994, Pritt announced he was embracing his old nemesis.

1994 Merger Creates Industry Leader

1996

1996: A failed diversification brings Pritt back to Attachmate's headquarters.

2001

By the beginning of 2001, after three substantial lay-offs in little more than a year, the company employed 1,200 workers, nearly half the size of the company's workforce six years earlier.

2005

After buying both WRQ, Inc. and Attachmate, who had been long-time competitors in the host emulation business, a group of private equity firms announced in 2005 that the companies would be merged under the new ownership.

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