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Perrigo Company, a manufacturer of over the counter pharmaceuticals, has signed a binding offer to acquire Héra SAS (HRA Pharma), a global consumer self-care company, for €1.8 billion, or approximately $2.1 billion in cash. The funds are affiliated with private equity firm Astorg and Goldman Sachs Asset Management.
The proposed final transaction would close by the end of the first half of 2022, subject to the satisfaction of customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals.
HRA is a fast growing, consumer healthcare company, that says it aids people throughout the world to improve their lives by developing accessible, value added, self-care solutions. The brand portfolio has continued to grow with a range of high-quality products in the area of consumer healthcare with a short and impressive timeframe.
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Perrigo Company is a provider of affordable self-care products and over-the-counter (OTC) health and wellness solutions. Perrigo is the largest store brand OTC player in the U.S. in the categories in which it competes through more than 9,000 SKUs under customer ‘own brand’ labels. Additionally, Perrigo is a Top 10 OTC company by revenue in Europe, where it markets more than 200 branded OTC products throughout 28 countries.
In March 2005 the firm acquired Agis Industries Limited, an Israel-based generic pharmaceuticals company in an $850 million transaction.
“Over the last two and one-half years, we have been on a journey to transform Perrigo into a focused and high-performing consumer self-care company, all while delivering a successful track record of well executed acquisitions and divestitures. The acquisition of HRA would be the crowning achievement in that transformation. With the addition of HRA and its talented leadership team, Perrigo would be a consumer self-care global leader that is poised to deliver top tier net sales growth and double-digit EPS growth in the near-term while concurrently expanding margins,” said Murray S. Kessler, CEO and President, Perrigo.
“Importantly, HRA’s focused portfolio of fast-growing self-care brands, which are market share leaders in growing categories, would be accretive to Perrigo’s 3% revenue growth goal. And, HRA’s expertise in migrating products from prescription to OTC would represent even further upside. The complementary geographic footprint of HRA to that of Perrigo would allow for significant and actionable synergies. And it is the totality of these factors that makes the combination of Perrigo and HRA strategically and financially compelling. It’s literally a one-of-a-kind opportunity to simultaneously enhance our financial profile, while driving even greater value for consumers, shareholders and the communities in which we work and live.”
