Acquisitions

12 Months Ended

Dec. 31, 2024

Business Combination, Asset Acquisition, and Joint Venture Formation [Abstract]

On December 2, 2024, as part of our Pool reportable segment, we completed the acquisition of G & F Manufacturing, LLC for $116.0 million in cash, net of cash acquired and subject to customary adjustments. The net purchase price is comprised of an upfront cash payment of $108.0 million, subject to customary adjustments, and the estimated fair value at the acquisition date of contingent earn-out liabilities based upon the achievement of certain defined operating results in the two years following the acquisition. The excess purchase price over tangible and identifiable intangible net assets acquired has been preliminarily allocated to goodwill in the amount of $56.6 million, all of which is expected to be deductible for income tax purposes. Identifiable intangible assets acquired consisted of $51.6 million of definite-lived customer relationships with an estimated useful life of 16 years. The pro forma impact of the acquisition was not material.

In July 2022, as part of our Water Solutions reportable segment, we acquired the issued and outstanding equity securities of certain subsidiaries of Welbilt, Inc. (“Welbilt”) and certain other assets, rights, and properties, and assumed certain liabilities, comprising Welbilt’s Manitowoc Ice business (“Manitowoc Ice”), for approximately $1.6 billion in cash.

Manitowoc Ice is a designer, manufacturer and distributor of commercial ice machines. The acquisition of Manitowoc Ice allows us to enhance and deliver our total water management offerings to an expanded network of channel partners and customers.

The purchase price has been allocated based on the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the date of the Manitowoc Ice acquisition. The purchase price allocation was completed in the third quarter of 2023.

The following table summarizes the final allocation of the purchase price to the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed in the Manitowoc Ice acquisition:


In millions
Cash	$	33.8
Accounts receivable	36.7
Inventories	66.7
Other current assets	3.9
Property, plant and equipment	21.6
Identifiable intangible assets	728.3
Goodwill	789.7
Other assets	0.7
Current liabilities	(62.7)
Other liabilities	(4.8)
Purchase price	$	1,613.9

The excess of purchase price over tangible net assets and identified intangible assets acquired has been allocated to goodwill in the amount of $789.7 million, all of which is deductible for income tax purposes. Goodwill recognized from the Manitowoc Ice acquisition primarily reflects the future economic benefit resulting from synergies of our combined operations.

Identifiable intangible assets acquired as part of the Manitowoc Ice acquisition include $78.4 million of indefinite-lived trade name intangible assets, $588.4 million of definite-lived customer relationships with a weighted-average estimated useful life of 20 years, $47.1 million of definite-lived proprietary technology intangible assets with a weighted-average estimated useful life of 10 years and $14.4 million of other definite-lived intangible assets with a weighted-average estimated useful life of four months. The fair values of trade names and proprietary technology acquired in the acquisition were determined using a relief-from-royalty method, and customer relationships and other definite-lived intangible assets acquired were determined using a multi-period excess earnings method. These methods utilize unobservable inputs that are significant to these fair value measurements and thus classified as Level 3 of the fair value hierarchy described in Note 9.

For the year ended December 31, 2022, non-recurring expense related to the fair value adjustment to acquisition-date inventory of $5.8 million, transaction-related charges of $19.9 million, and acquisition-related bridge financing costs of $9.0 million are reflected in Cost of goods sold, Selling, general and administrative and Net interest expense, respectively, in the Consolidated Statements of Operations and Comprehensive Income. Manitowoc Ice’s net sales and operating income for the period from the acquisition date to December 31, 2022 were $156.3 million and $12.2 million, respectively. For the year ended December 31, 2022, Manitowoc’s operating income includes $28.6 million of identifiable intangible asset amortization expense and $5.8 million of amortization of inventory fair market value step-up.

The following table presents unaudited pro forma financial information as if the Manitowoc Ice acquisition had occurred on January 1, 2022, the beginning of the comparable prior annual reporting period:


	Year Ended December 31
In millions, except per share data	2022
Pro forma net sales	$	4,328.6
Pro forma net income from continuing operations	486.3
Pro forma earnings per ordinary share - continuing operations
Basic	$	2.95
Diluted	2.94

The unaudited pro forma net income from continuing operations includes Manitowoc Ice’s identifiable intangible asset amortization expense of $34.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2022. The unaudited pro forma net income from continuing operations for the year ended December 31, 2022 excludes the impact of $34.7 million of transaction-related charges, acquisition-related bridge financing costs and non-recurring expense related to the fair value adjustment to acquisition-date inventory.

The pro forma condensed consolidated financial information has been prepared for comparative purposes only and includes certain adjustments, as noted above. The adjustments are estimates based on currently available information and actual amounts may differ materially from these estimates. They do not reflect the effect of costs or synergies that would have been expected to result from the integration of the Manitowoc Ice acquisition. The pro forma information does not purport to be indicative of the results of operations that actually would have resulted had the Manitowoc Ice acquisition occurred on January 1, 2022.