09.05.17
H.B. Fuller said it signed an agreement to purchase Royal Adhesives & Sealants for $1.57 million – and plans to close the deal as soon as October.
H.B. Fuller plans to finance the transaction through new debt financing, accoring to Kimberlee Sinclair, director of Global Communications.
"This accretive acquisition accelerates realization of our 2020 strategic objective to focus and grow in engineering adhesives and other highly specified market segments, while exceeding our targeted cash flow, EPS and EBITDA margin targets," said H.B. Fuller President and CEO Jim Owens. “We have identified $35 million in cost synergies and $15 million in growth synergies that we expect to realize over the next three years as a result of merging these two great adhesives businesses. Upon closing the transaction, H.B. Fuller will be a company with nearly $2.9 billion in revenue, focused on profitable growth in attractive engineering, durable assembly, and construction adhesives markets.”
Royal is expected to generate approximately $650 million in revenue and $138 million in adjusted EBITDA for H.B. Fuller’s fiscal year 2017, according to Sinclair.
Royal has 19 manufacturing facilities in five countries and employs approximately 1,500 people globally.
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is acting as H.B. Fuller’s sole financial advisor in relation to this acquisition, and Faegre Baker Daniels LLP is acting as H.B. Fuller’s legal counsel.
H.B. Fuller is acquiring Royal from affiliates of American Securities LLC, based in New York with an office in Shanghai.
H.B. Fuller plans to finance the transaction through new debt financing, accoring to Kimberlee Sinclair, director of Global Communications.
"This accretive acquisition accelerates realization of our 2020 strategic objective to focus and grow in engineering adhesives and other highly specified market segments, while exceeding our targeted cash flow, EPS and EBITDA margin targets," said H.B. Fuller President and CEO Jim Owens. “We have identified $35 million in cost synergies and $15 million in growth synergies that we expect to realize over the next three years as a result of merging these two great adhesives businesses. Upon closing the transaction, H.B. Fuller will be a company with nearly $2.9 billion in revenue, focused on profitable growth in attractive engineering, durable assembly, and construction adhesives markets.”
Royal is expected to generate approximately $650 million in revenue and $138 million in adjusted EBITDA for H.B. Fuller’s fiscal year 2017, according to Sinclair.
Royal has 19 manufacturing facilities in five countries and employs approximately 1,500 people globally.
Morgan Stanley & Co. LLC is acting as H.B. Fuller’s sole financial advisor in relation to this acquisition, and Faegre Baker Daniels LLP is acting as H.B. Fuller’s legal counsel.
H.B. Fuller is acquiring Royal from affiliates of American Securities LLC, based in New York with an office in Shanghai.
