Acquisitions and Divestitures

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2021

Business Combination and Asset Acquisition [Abstract]

Acquisitions and Divestitures

During 2021, we entered into an agreement to acquire Jurox, a privately held animal health company based in Australia, which develops, manufactures and markets a wide range of veterinary medicines for treating companion animals and livestock. The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and the satisfaction of regulatory requirements. We expect to complete the acquisition in 2022. We also acquired certain assets to expand our portfolio of equine care products, which did not have a significant impact on our consolidated financial statements.

During 2020, we completed the acquisitions of Fish Vet Group, a diagnostics company for aquaculture, Virtual Recall, a veterinary engagement software company, Performance Livestock Analytics, a cloud-based technology company in the precision animal health business, and Ethos Diagnostic Science, a veterinary reference laboratory business with labs across the U.S. We also entered into an option purchase agreement as part of a research and development arrangement with a Belgian company, a variable interest entity of which Zoetis is the primary beneficiary and now consolidating within our results. These transactions did not have a significant impact on our consolidated financial statements.

During 2019, we completed the acquisitions of Platinum Performance, a nutrition-focused animal health business for companion animals, and Phoenix Lab and ZNLabs, both full service veterinary reference laboratory companies with networks of labs across the U.S. These transactions did not have a significant impact on our consolidated financial statements.

B. Divestitures

In 2020 and 2019, we received cash proceeds of $20 million resulting from payments received pursuant to an agreement related to the 2016 sale of certain U.S. manufacturing sites.