ACQUISITIONS

The Company continually evaluates potential acquisitions that either strategically fit with the Company’s existing portfolio or expand the Company’s portfolio into a new and attractive business area. The Company has completed a number of acquisitions that have been accounted for as purchases and have resulted in the recognition of goodwill in the Company’s financial statements. This goodwill arises because the purchase prices for these businesses reflect a number of factors including the future earnings and cash flow potential of these businesses, the multiple to earnings, cash flow and other factors at which similar businesses have been purchased by other acquirers, the competitive nature of the processes by which the Company acquired the businesses and the complementary strategic fit and resulting synergies these businesses bring to existing operations.

The Company makes an initial allocation of the purchase price at the date of acquisition based upon its understanding of the fair value of the acquired assets and assumed liabilities. The Company obtains this information during due diligence and through other sources. In the months after closing, as the Company obtains additional information about these assets and liabilities, including through tangible and intangible asset appraisals, and learns more about the newly acquired business, it is able to refine the estimates of fair value and more accurately allocate the purchase price. Only items identified as of the acquisition date are considered for subsequent adjustment. The Company is continuing to evaluate certain pre-acquisition contingencies associated with certain of its 2013 and 2012 acquisitions and is also in the process of obtaining valuations of acquired intangible assets and certain acquisition related liabilities in connection with these acquisitions. The Company will make appropriate adjustments to the purchase price allocation prior to completion of the respective measurement period, as required. The Company evaluated whether any adjustments to the prior periods' purchase price allocations were material and concluded no retrospective adjustment to prior period financial statements was required.

During the first three months of 2013, the Company acquired one business for total consideration of $12 million in cash, net of cash acquired. The business acquired complements an existing unit of the Industrial Technologies segment. The annual sales of the business acquired at the time of acquisition, based on the company’s revenues for its last completed fiscal year prior to the acquisition, were $11 million. The Company preliminarily recorded an aggregate of $7 million of goodwill related to this acquisition.

For a description of the Company’s acquisition activity for the year ended December 31, 2012, reference is made to Note 2 of the financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2012 and the Notes thereto included in the Company’s 2012 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Pro Forma Financial Information

The unaudited pro forma information for the periods set forth below gives effect to the 2013 and 2012 acquisitions as if they had occurred as of January 1, 2012. The pro forma information is presented for informational purposes only and is not necessarily indicative of the results of operations that actually would have been achieved had the acquisitions been consummated as of that time ($ in millions, except per share amounts):



	Three Months Ended
	March 29, 2013		March 30, 2012
Sales	$	4,446.4	$	4,439.7
Net earnings from continuing operations	692.1		524.1
Diluted net earnings per share from continuing operations	$	0.98	$	0.74