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Reckitt Benckiser reaches deal to buy Mead Johnson for $16.6 billion

February 10, 2017
Consumer Packaged Goods

Reckitt Benckiser has agreed to buy U.S. infant formula maker Mead Johnson Nutrition for $16.6 billion, its biggest deal ever and opening up a new market area for the British consumer goods company.

Reckitt, the British maker of Lysol cleaners and Durex condoms, said on Friday it will pay $90 a share for the company, a 30 percent premium to the stock’s closing price the day before Reckitt said last week it was in talks to buy Mead Johnson.

Including Mead Johnson’s debt, the deal is worth $17.9 billion.

Reckitt said its goal is for the Mead Johnson business to perform at the upper end of estimated category growth of 3 to 5 percent per year in the medium to long term.

It estimated 200 million pounds in annual cost savings by the end of the third full year, and will add to earnings in the first full year. It should add a double-digit percentage rate to earnings by the third year, Reckitt said.

Reckitt also reported fourth-quarter revenue of 2.76 billion pounds, up 1 percent on a like-for-like basis. For the full year, like-for-like revenue rose 3 percent.

Reported earnings for the full year were 256.5p, up 6 percent.

By Martinne Geller

Source: Reuters

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