Hand Held Products, a Welch Allyn Affiliate, was founded with the acquisition of Hand Held Products, Inc. by Welch Allyn Data Collection, Inc. (d/b/a Hand Held Products) in the summer of 1999. A "perfect marriage of technology, products and people," the combined company is dedicated to the design and development of affordable, high-performance, image-based data collection systems for the transportation, postal, warehousing, distribution, manufacturing, and retail markets.