Thursday, 22 May 2014

Unilever disposal

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A manufacturer and supplier of fast moving consumer goods, with more than 400 brands focused on health and wellbeing, 14 of which generate sales in excess of €1 billion a year. I have a holding in my income portfolio (epic code: ULVR).



Unilever announced today that it has signed an agreement for the sale of its North America pasta sauces business under the Ragu and Bertolli brands to Mizkan Group for a total cash consideration of approximately $2.15bn.
 
The annual turnover for Ragu and Bertolli is more than $600m, so at over 3.5x turnover this looks to be a very good price, for what Unilever considers to be a relatively low growth business.  There was no mention of the tax charge that Unilever will incur, so we will have to wait for a disclosure on this.  

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