ACQUISITIONS

On January 7, 2014, the Company acquired the VION Ingredients business division from VION by purchasing shares of the VION Companies as described in Note 1, pursuant to a Sale and Purchase Agreement dated October 5, 2013, as amended, between Darling and VION. The VION Ingredients business is now conducted under the name Darling Ingredients International. Darling Ingredients International is a worldwide leader in the development and production of specialty ingredients from animal by-products for applications in pharmaceuticals, food, pet food, feed, fuel, bioenergy and fertilizer. On January 7, 2014, Darling Ingredients International operated a global network of production facilities across five continents covering all aspects of animal by-product processing through six brands: Rendac (bioenergy), Sonac (bone products, proteins, fats, edible fats and plasma products), Ecoson (bioenergy), Rousselot (gelatin and collagen hydrolysates), CTH (natural casings) and Best Hides (hides and skins). The purchase of the VION Companies allows the Company to have a global reach. The purchase price for the transaction was approximately€1.6 billion in cash (approximately $2.2 billion at the exchange rate of €1.00:USD$1.3605 ). The purchase price was financed through (i) borrowings under the Company’s senior secured revolving credit facility and term loan facilities; (ii) proceeds from the Company’s $874.0 million public common stock offering in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2013; and (iii) proceeds from the private offering of $500.0 million aggregate principal amount of the Company’s 5.375% Senior Notes due 2022, that closed on January 2, 2014.

The following table summarizes the fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed in the VION Acquisition as of January 7, 2014 (in thousands):



Accounts receivable	$	337,278
Inventory	375,306
Prepaid expense	23,135
Other current assets	3,525
Deferred tax assets	48,639
Property plant and equipment	981,009
Identifiable intangibles	464,193
Goodwill	702,672
Investment in unconsolidated subsidiaries	27,069
Other long term assets	1,101
Accounts payable	(210,477		)
Current portion of long-term debt	(26,347		)
Accrued expenses	(149,345		)
Deferred tax liability	(350,003		)
Long Term debt obligations	(4,109		)
Other noncurrent liabilities	(57,721		)
Noncontrolling interests	(90,919		)
Purchase price, net of cash acquired of $91.2 million	$	2,075,006

During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014, the Company completed the purchase accounting for the VION Acquisition. Subsequent to the preliminary purchase price allocation in the first quarter of fiscal 2014, the Company made adjustments to the provisional amounts to increase working capital of approximately $84.0 million, decrease property, plant and equipment of approximately $27.3 million, decrease identifiable intangibles of $17.6 million, decrease goodwill of approximately $72.1 million and increase other of approximately $27.0 million. The impact of these adjustments during the measurement period did not have a material impact to earnings for fiscal 2014 or any quarterly period during fiscal 2014.

Goodwill of approximately $223.2 million was assigned to the Feed Ingredients segment, approximately $375.6 million was assigned to the Food Ingredients segment and approximately $103.8 million was assigned to the Fuel Ingredients segment, respectively. Of the VION Acquisition goodwill, approximately 33% is expected to be deductible for tax purposes. Identifiable intangibles include trademarks and trade names with indefinite lives of approximately $32.0 million and definite lived intangible assets including routes of approximately $190.2 million with a weighted average useful life of 10 years, $225.6 million in permits with a weighted average useful life of 15 years and patents and other intangibles of approximately $16.5 million with a weighted average useful life of 25 years. The VION Acquisition is a taxable stock sale and as a result there were deferred taxes that were created.

On October 28, 2013, Darling completed the acquisition of substantially all of the assets of Rothsay for approximately CAD $640.2 million (approximately USD$612.6 million at the exchange rate of CAD$1.00:USD$0.9569) comprised of cash of CAD$644.5 million less a contingent receivable of approximately CAD$4.3 million due to over payment for working capital, which was returned by MFI in fiscal 2014. The cash portion of the Rothsay Acquisition was funded through a combination of borrowings under Darling's senior secured revolving credit facility and term loan facility. Rothsay has a network of five rendering plants in Manitoba, Ontario and Nova Scotia and a biodiesel operation in Quebec, Canada. The Rothsay Acquisition not only adds significant scale by expanding the Company's geographic footprint into Canada, but also provides the Company with an opportunity for synergies through transferring best practices between Rothsay and the Company's existing operations and improving efficiencies.

The following table summarizes the fair value of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed in the Rothsay Acquisition as of October 28, 2013 (in thousands):



Accounts receivable	$	13,220
Inventory	5,479
Other current assets	312
Property, plant and equipment	138,175
Identifiable intangibles	240,386
Goodwill	262,797
Accounts payable	(12,159		)
Accrued expenses	(5,701		)
Deferred tax liability	(15,031		)
Capital lease obligations	(10,741		)
Other non-current liabilities	(4,102		)
Purchase price, net of cash acquired	$	612,635

During the fourth quarter of fiscal 2014, the Company completed the purchase accounting for the Rothsay Acquisition. In the Rothsay Acquisition, goodwill of approximately $224.6 million was assigned to the Feed Ingredients segment and approximately $38.2 million was assigned to the Fuel Ingredients segment. Approximately 75% of the goodwill recorded in the Rothsay Acquisition is expected to be deductible for tax purposes. Identifiable intangibles include definite lived intangible assets including routes of approximately $172.6 million with a weighted average useful life of 21 years, $55.6 million in permits with a weighted average useful life of 13 years, trade names of approximately $9.0 million with a weighted average useful life of 4 years and $3.2 million in non-compete with a weighted average useful life of 7 years.

The Company also incurred selling and general administrative expenses as part of the VION Acquisition and the Rothsay Acquisition for consulting and legal expenses and integration expenses in the amount of approximately$8.3 million, $24.4 million and $22.2 million during fiscal 2015, fiscal 2014 and fiscal 2013, respectively.

The Company notes the acquisitions discussed below are not considered related businesses, therefore are not required to be treated as a single business combination. Pro forma results of operations for these acquisitions have not been presented because the effect of each acquisition individually or in the aggregate is not deemed material to revenues and net income of the Company for any fiscal period presented.

On October 1, 2014, the Company acquired substantially all of the assets of Custom Blenders Arkansas, LLC, an Indiana limited liability company, Custom Blenders Georgia, LLC, a Georgia limited liability company, Custom Blenders Indiana, Inc., an Indiana corporation, and Custom Blenders Texas, LLC, an Indiana limited liability company (collectively “Custom Blenders”), one of the leading bakery residuals recyclers in the United States. The acquisition includes Custom Blenders' operations in Indiana, Georgia, Texas, and Arkansas. The acquisition provided significant synergies to the Company's suppliers and customers in the Feed Ingredients segment. The Company paid approximately $18.8 million in cash less a contingent receivable of approximately $0.8 million recorded against goodwill and an adjustment to inventory of approximately $0.5 million recorded in fiscal 2015. The purchase price for assets consisting of property, plant and equipment of approximately $3.2 million, intangible assets of approximately $8.6 million, goodwill of approximately $5.2 million and inventory of approximately $1.0 million. The identifiable intangibles have a weighted average life of 14 years.

On August 26, 2013, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Darling, Darling AWS LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, acquired all of the shares of Terra Holding Company, a Delaware corporation, and its wholly owned subsidiaries, Terra Renewal Services, Inc., an Arkansas corporation (“TRS”), and EV Acquisition, Inc., an Arkansas corporation (the “Terra Transaction”). The Terra Transaction increased the Company's rendering portfolio by adding to the Company's existing rendering segments grease collection businesses and adds an industrial residuals business as a new line of service for the Company's rendering raw material suppliers within the Feed Ingredients segment.

Effective August 26, 2013, the Company began including the operations acquired in the Terra Transaction into the Company's consolidated financial statements. The Company paid approximately $122.1 million in cash for assets and assumed liabilities consisting of property, plant and equipment of $27.7 million, intangible assets of $46.2 million, goodwill of $61.1 million, deferred tax liability of $19.5 million and working capital of $6.6 million on the closing date. The goodwill from the Terra Transaction was assigned to the Feed Ingredients segment and is not deductible for tax purposes, though TRS has approximately $5.2 million of goodwill deductible for tax purposes related to prior acquisitions. The identifiable intangibles have a weighted average life of 12 years.