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Business Combination and Assets Acquisitions
 9 Months Ended
Jul. 30, 2021
Business Combination and Asset Acquisition [Abstract]  
Business Combination and Asset Acquisitions
2Business Combination and Asset Acquisitions
Venture Products, Inc. ("Venture Products")
On March 2, 2020, the company completed its acquisition of Venture Products, the manufacturer of Ventrac-branded products. Venture Products designs, manufactures, markets, and sells articulating turf, landscape, and snow and ice management equipment for grounds, landscape contractor, golf, municipal, and rural acreage customers and provides innovative product
offerings that broadened and strengthened the company's Professional segment and expanded its dealer network. On the closing date of the acquisition, the company paid preliminary merger consideration of $165.9 million, which consisted of a cash payment of $136.4 million ("initial cash payment") and a $29.5 million holdback to satisfy any indemnification or certain other obligations of Venture Products to the company. The preliminary merger consideration was subject to certain customary adjustments, which were finalized during the third quarter of fiscal 2020 and resulted in an aggregate merger consideration of $163.2 million and at such time, $4.5 million of the holdback set aside for such customary adjustments was released accordingly. During the second quarter of fiscal 2021, $14.9 million of the remaining holdback was released and the remaining holdback of $10.0 million is expected to expire during the fourth quarter of fiscal 2021. As of the closing date of the acquisition, the company funded the initial cash payment with borrowings under its unsecured senior revolving credit facility.
The company accounted for the acquisition in accordance with the accounting standards codification guidance for business combinations, whereby the purchase price was allocated to the acquired net tangible and intangible assets of Venture Products based on their fair values as of the closing date of the acquisition. Such fair values were based on internal company and independent external third-party valuations. The following table summarizes the allocation of the purchase price to the fair values assigned to the Venture Products assets acquired and liabilities assumed:
(Dollars in thousands)March 2, 2020
Cash and cash equivalents$3,476 
Receivables6,342 
Inventories23,000 
Prepaid expenses and other current assets239 
Property, plant and equipment26,976 
Goodwill61,225 
Other intangible assets:
Finite-lived customer-related19,100 
Indefinite-lived trade name56,200 
Accounts payable(4,075)
Accrued liabilities(5,196)
Deferred income tax liabilities(20,586)
Total fair value of net assets acquired166,701 
Less: cash and cash equivalents acquired(3,476)
Total purchase price$163,225 
The goodwill recognized is primarily attributable to the value of the workforce, the reputation of Venture Products, expected future cash flows, and expected synergies, including customer and dealer growth opportunities and integrating and expanding existing product lines. Key areas of expected cost synergies include increased purchasing power for commodities, components, parts, and accessories, and supply chain consolidation. The goodwill resulting from the Venture Products acquisition was recognized within the company's Professional segment and is non-deductible for tax purposes. During the first quarter of fiscal 2021, the company completed its valuation of income taxes to finalize the purchase price allocation, which resulted in a decrease to the carrying amount of goodwill of $1.0 million from the amounts reported within the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended October 31, 2020. Such purchase accounting adjustment did not impact the company's Condensed Consolidated Statements of Earnings for the three and nine month periods ended July 30, 2021.
The allocation of the purchase price to the net assets acquired resulted in the recognition of $75.3 million of other intangible assets as of the closing date of the acquisition. The fair values of the acquired trade name and customer-related intangible assets were determined using the income approach whereby an intangible asset's fair value is equal to the present value of future economic benefits to be derived from ownership of the asset. The useful lives of the other intangible assets were determined based on the period of expected cash flows used to measure the fair value of the intangible assets adjusted as appropriate for entity-specific factors including legal, regulatory, contractual, competitive, economic, and/or other factors that may limit the useful life of the respective intangible asset. The fair value of the indefinite-lived trade name was determined using the relief from royalty method, which is based on the hypothetical royalty stream that would be received if the company were to license the trade name and was based on expected future revenues. The fair value of the customer-related intangible asset was determined using the excess earnings method and was based on the expected operating cash flows attributable to the customer-related intangible asset, which was determined by deducting expected economic costs, including operating expenses and contributory asset charges, from the revenue expected to be generated from the customer-related intangible asset. As of the closing date of the acquisition, the weighted-average useful life of the customer-related intangible asset was determined to be 16.0 years.
Asset Acquisitions
Effective November 4, 2020, during the first quarter of fiscal 2021, the company completed the acquisition of Turflynx, Lda, a developer of innovative autonomous solutions for turf management and effective March 1, 2021, during the second quarter of fiscal 2021, the company completed the acquisition of Left Hand Robotics, Inc., a developer of innovative autonomous solutions for turf and snow management. These acquisitions complement and support the development of alternative power, smart-connected, and autonomous products within the company's Professional and Residential segments. Neither of these acquisitions met the definition of a business combination as substantially all of the fair value of the gross assets acquired in each acquisition was concentrated in the respective finite-lived developed technology other intangible asset and as a result, the company accounted for each of these transactions as an asset acquisition. In an asset acquisition, goodwill is not recognized, but rather, any excess purchase consideration over the fair value of the net assets acquired is allocated on a relative fair value basis to the identifiable net assets as of the acquisition date and any direct acquisition-related transaction costs are capitalized as part of the purchase consideration. These asset acquisitions were immaterial in relation to the company's Consolidated Financial Condition and Results of Operations and as a result, additional purchase accounting disclosures have been omitted.