NONCONTROLLING INTERESTS

12 Months Ended

Sep. 27, 2024

In September 2018, the Company entered into a partnership in Saudi Arabia. The Company has majority voting rights with an approximate 75% interest. Accordingly, the Company has consolidated the operations of the Saudi Arabia partnership in the Company's consolidated financial statements and recorded the noncontrolling interests. The noncontrolling interest related to the partner’s 25% interest in the joint venture is included in noncontrolling interests in the equity section of the Company’s Consolidated Balance Sheets. Income representing the noncontrolling partner's share of income from operations is included in the Company's Consolidated Statements of Operations.

In April 2015, the Company completed the acquisition of 73.5% of the then outstanding shares of MeVis Medical Solutions AG (“MeVis”), a public company based in Bremen, Germany, that provides image processing software and services for cancer screening. In August 2015, the Company, through one of its German subsidiaries, entered into a Domination and Profit and Loss Transfer Agreement (the “DPLTA”) with MeVis. In October 2015, the DPLTA became effective upon its registration at the local court of Bremen, Germany. Under the DPLTA, MeVis subordinates its management to the Company and undertakes to transfer all of its annual profits and losses to the Company. In return, the DPLTA grants the noncontrolling shareholders of MeVis: (1) an annual recurring net compensation of €0.95 per MeVis share starting from January 1, 2015 and (2) a put right for their MeVis shares at €19.77 per MeVis share. In fiscal years 2017 and 2018, the Company purchased an immaterial number of MeVis' shares for an additional 0.2% of outstanding shares under the put right such that the Company now owns 73.7% of the outstanding shares of common stock of MeVis. During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2020, the put right granted to the noncontrolling shareholders of MeVis under the DPLTA expired unexercised, which resulted in the redeemable noncontrolling interests being reclassified to permanent equity as noncontrolling interest in the Consolidated Balance Sheets. As of September 27, 2024, noncontrolling shareholders together held approximately 0.5 million shares of MeVis, representing 26.3% of the outstanding shares.

Changes in noncontrolling interests were as follows:


	Fiscal Years
	2024		2023
(In millions)	Noncontrolling Interests			Noncontrolling Interests
Balance at beginning of period	$	13.3		$	13.3
Net income attributable to noncontrolling interests	0.5			0.5


Business acquisitions	0.7			—
Other, including foreign currency remeasurement	(0.4)			(0.5)
Balance at end of period	$	14.1		$	13.3