Hormel Foods today announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Skippy® peanut butter business from Unilever United States Inc., of Englewood Cliffs, N.J. The transaction includes Unilever’s Skippy® manufacturing facilities in Little Rock, Ark., and Weifang, China (located in the Shandong province), and is subject to customary closing conditions, including the receipt of regulatory approvals in the U.S. and other jurisdictions.
今天，荷美尔食品正式宣布已经与美国联合利华达成最终协议收购其旗下“四季宝”品牌花生酱。这项交易包括收购联合利华四季宝品牌在美国in Little Rock, Ark 和中国山东省潍坊市的工厂。 这项交易已收到美国相关监管部门和其他司法管辖部门的批准。
The Skippy® peanut butter domestic line consists of 11 varieties of shelf-stable peanut butter products. The brand, first introduced in 1932, holds the No. 2 share in this growing center-of-the-store category and is the leading brand in the faster growing subcategory of natural peanut butter. Peanut butter is a $2 billion category with a 74 percent household penetration and is the second most popular sandwich behind ham in the U.S.
四季宝花生酱在美国的生产线包括11种常温花生酱产品。这个品牌创始于1932年， 是增长的超市核心区中市场占有率第二的品牌，也是天然花生酱品类的领导品牌。花生酱品类的市场达20亿美元， 家庭使用率达74%，是美国三明治中仅次于火腿的第二大流行配料。
Internationally, Skippy® peanut butter is the leading brand in China and is sold in more than 30 other countries on five continents.
在国际市场上，四季宝花生酱在中国是领导品牌，并销往五大洲30多个国家。
Total sales are expected to be approximately $370 million, with nearly $100 million of those sales outside the U.S. The purchase price is approximately $700 million. Hormel Foods expects this acquisition to be moderately accretive in fiscal 2013. Full year accretion in fiscal 2014 is expected to be between 13 and 17 cents per share.
