Business Acquisitions

12 Months Ended

Aug. 31, 2012

Business Acquisitions

14. Business Acquisitions

On December 1, 2011, the Company completed its acquisition of Telmar by acquiring 100% of the issued and outstanding common shares of Telmar for approximately $128.9 million in cash. Telmar is a global provider of services and solutions for network service providers and enterprise and original equipment manufacturers. The acquisition of Telmar is expected to enhance the Company’s position in the telecommunications manufacturing and reverse logistics sector.

The acquisition of Telmar has been accounted for as a business combination using the acquisition method of accounting. The determination of the fair values of the net assets acquired were finalized during the third quarter of fiscal year 2012. Assets acquired of $184.2 million, including $60.9 million in goodwill and $49.9 million in definite lived intangible assets, and liabilities assumed of $55.3 million were recorded at their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date.

The excess of the purchase price over the fair value of the acquired assets and assumed liabilities of $60.9 million was recorded to goodwill and was assigned fully to the DMS reportable segment.

During the second quarter of fiscal year 2011, the Company completed its acquisition of F-I Holding Company, which directly or indirectly wholly owns the Competence Sites. The Competence Sites were former operations of the Company and were previously disposed of during the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2010. Refer to Note 13 — “Loss on Disposal of Subsidiaries” for further discussion of the previous disposition. In order to reestablish viable operations, including the preservation of the Company’s relationship with certain global customers that the Company continued to serve outside of its former French and Italian operations and jobs of former employees, the Company acquired the entities owning the Competence Sites following multiple breaches by the third party purchaser. The acquisition added approximately 1,500 employees to the Company.

In exchange for cash of approximately $0.5 million and certain mutual conditional releases, the Company acquired a 100% equity interest in the Competence Sites. Simultaneously, with this transaction, the Company recorded a settlement of pre-existing receivables and other relationships with a fair value of $22.3 million that were outstanding at the time of acquisition.

During the second quarter of fiscal year 2011, immediately prior to the acquisition of the Competence Sites, the Company recognized a charge of $12.7 million in order to record $35.0 million in receivables and other relationships with the Competence Sites at their respective fair values. This charge is included in settlement of receivables and related charges within the Consolidated Statement of Operations for fiscal year 2011. The fair values of these receivables and other obligations were determined based on the probability evaluation of multiple scenarios under which the Competence Sites could settle these liabilities.

The acquisition of the Competence entities has been accounted for as a business combination using the acquisition method. Assets acquired of $131.4 million and liabilities assumed of $108.6 million were recorded at their estimated fair values as of the acquisition date. The $7.1 million excess of purchase price over the tangible assets and assumed liabilities, based on the exchange rate on the date of acquisition, was recorded as goodwill within the E&I reportable segment.