Business Overview

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2020

Organization, Consolidation and Presentation of Financial Statements [Abstract]

Business Overview

NOTE 1. BUSINESS OVERVIEW

Vontier Corporation (“Vontier”, the “Company”, “we”, “us” or “our”) offers critical technical equipment, components, software and services for manufacturing, repair, and servicing in the mobility infrastructure industry worldwide. The Company supplies a wide range of mobility technologies and diagnostics and repair technologies solutions spanning advanced environmental sensors, fueling equipment, field payment, hardware, remote management and workflow software, vehicle tracking and fleet management software-as-a-service solutions, professional vehicle mechanics’ and technicians’ equipment and traffic priority control systems. The Company markets its products and services to retail and commercial fueling operators, commercial vehicle repair businesses, municipal governments and public safety entities and fleet owners/operators on a global basis.

Our research and development, manufacturing, sales, distribution, service and administrative facilities are located in more than 30 countries.

Vontier operates through one reportable segment comprised of two operating segments: (i) mobility technologies, which is a leading worldwide provider of solutions and services focused on fuel dispensing, remote fuel management, point-of-sale and payment systems, environmental compliance, telematics and smart city solutions, and (ii) diagnostics and repair technologies, which manufactures and distributes vehicle repair tools, toolboxes and automotive diagnostic equipment and software and a full line of wheel-service equipment. Given the interrelationships of the products, technologies and customers and the resulting similar long-term economic characteristics, we meet the aggregation criteria and have combined our two operating segments into a single reportable segment. Historically, these businesses had operated as part of Fortive Corporation’s (“Fortive”) Industrial Technologies reportable segment.

Separation from Fortive Corporation

On October 9, 2020, Fortive completed the separation of Fortive’s Industrial Technologies businesses (the “Vontier Businesses”) through a pro rata distribution of 80.1% of the outstanding common stock of Vontier to Fortive’s stockholders (the “Separation”). To effect the Separation, Fortive distributed to its stockholders two shares of Vontier common stock for every five shares of Fortive common stock outstanding held on September 25, 2020, the record date for the distribution. The primary source of the cash on hand as of the date of Separation was due to a transfer from Fortive as part of the separation agreement. Under the terms of the separation agreement, we repaid $86.1 million to Fortive in December 2020.

In connection with the Separation, Vontier and Fortive entered into various agreements to effect the Separation and provide a framework for Vontier’s relationship with Fortive after the Separation, including a transition services agreement (“TSA”), an employee matters agreement, a tax matters agreement, an intellectual property matters agreement, a Fortive Business System (“FBS”) license agreement, and a stockholder’s and registration rights agreement. These agreements will govern the separation between Vontier and Fortive of the assets, employees, liabilities and obligations (including its investments, property and employee benefits and tax-related assets and liabilities) of Fortive and its subsidiaries attributable to periods prior to, at and after Vontier’s separation and will govern certain relationships between Vontier and Fortive after the Separation.

During 2020, we completed the following transaction in addition to the Separation:

•Entered into a credit agreement with a syndicate of banks, consisting of a three-year, $800.0 million senior unsecured delayed-draw term facility (the “Three-Year Term Loans”), a two-year, $1.0 billion senior unsecured delayed draw term loan facility (the “Two-Year Term Loans” and together with the Three-Year Term Loans, the “Term Loans”) and a three-year, $750.0 million senior unsecured multi-currency revolving credit facility, including a $25.0 million sublimit for swingline loans and a $75.0 million sublimit for the issuance of letters of credit (the “Revolving Credit Facility” and, together with the Term Loans, the “Credit Facilities”). We drew down the entire $1.8 billion available under the Term Loans.

In connection with the Separation, $1.6 billion of the net proceeds from the Term Loans was paid to Fortive as part of the consideration for the contribution of certain assets and liabilities to the Company by Fortive.