Strengthens inventory management solutions, expands product portfolio in fasteners, establishes Canada footprint
MELVILLE, N.Y., April 22, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — MSC INDUSTRIAL DIRECT CO., INC. (NYSE: MSM) today announced that it has completed the acquisition of the North American distribution business (“BDNA” or the “Business”) of Barnes Group Inc. (NYSE: B) for $550 million, subject to customary working capital adjustments. With this acquisition, MSC extends its inventory management solutions and product offering in fasteners and other high gross margin consumable products, and establishes a significant presence in the Canadian market.
MSC financed the purchase of BDNA utilizing both existing cash and a new credit facility, which was closed simultaneously with the acquisition. The new credit facility includes a fully drawn $250 million term loan and a $400 million revolver, of which $120 million was drawn at closing to fund the acquisition. As previously announced, run-rate cost synergies are expected to reach $15-$20 million by fiscal 2015. The acquisition is expected to be accretive to cash flow and earnings per diluted share (“EPS”), including synergies and excluding transaction and integration costs, by contributing an expected incremental EPS of $0.15-$0.20 and $0.30-$0.40 in fiscal years 2014 and 2015, respectively.
Erik Gershwind , MSC’s President and Chief Executive Officer, commented, “The acquisition of BDNA enables us to provide our mutual customers a deeper inventory management solution, a broader product offering and a larger geographic footprint to help them grow their businesses, increase productivity and reduce their MRO inventory costs. The addition of so many talented associates from BDNA nearly doubles MSC’s existing sales force and tremendously strengthens our future growth opportunities.”
Headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, BDNA is a leading distributor of fasteners and other high margin, low cost consumables with a broad distribution footprint throughout the U.S. and Canada. BDNA has a strong presence with customers across manufacturing, government, transportation and natural resources end-markets. BDNA specializes in lowering the total cost of their customers’ inventory management through storeroom organization and vendor managed inventory. The Business services roughly 31,000 customers with nearly 1,400 associates, including over 800 field sales associates, and offers more than 55,000 SKU’s of products. For calendar year 2012, BDNA generated sales of roughly $300 million. (…)
