MGP Ingredients (MGPI) Completes Acquisition of Lawrenceburg Distillers Indiana for $11M
With the finalization today of a previously-announced asset acquisition, MGP Ingredients, Inc. (Nasdaq: MGPI) significantly strengthened its role in serving beverage alcohol customers in the branded packaged goods industry. Through its wholly-owned subsidiary, MGPI of Indiana, LLC, the company acquired Lawrenceburg Distillers Indiana, LLC ("LDI") distillery assets located in Lawrenceburg, Ind. and the adjacent community of Greendale, Ind. The assets include alcohol fermentation and distillation operations, as well as bulk barrel storage facilities, blending operations and a tank farm.
The purchase greatly increases production capacity in MGPI's food grade alcohol area by enabling the company to begin producing premium bourbon and whiskey products, while also substantially adding to its gin and grain neutral spirits output. It also enhances the company's service and distribution capabilities and provides dual sources of supply, primarily for customers of distilled gins and grain neutral spirits, which have been mainstays of MGPI's beverage alcohol product portfolio for nearly seven decades.
Based on terms of the purchase agreement, the company paid LDI cash equal to the current assets minus current liabilities of the distillery assets, estimated at $11 million. The purchase price payment is subject to post-closing adjustments to fund a working capital true-up and to fund possible future indemnification claims. The acquisition was funded through bank financing.
The facilities now owned by MGPI at the Lawrenceburg Distillers site encompass over 50 acres, or approximately two-thirds of the total land area of 78 acres on which the LDI complex is situated. Other assets related to bottling and finished goods packaging, as well as the remaining acreage, have been acquired by a third party, which is not affiliated with MGPI.
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The purchase greatly increases production capacity in MGPI's food grade alcohol area by enabling the company to begin producing premium bourbon and whiskey products, while also substantially adding to its gin and grain neutral spirits output. It also enhances the company's service and distribution capabilities and provides dual sources of supply, primarily for customers of distilled gins and grain neutral spirits, which have been mainstays of MGPI's beverage alcohol product portfolio for nearly seven decades.
Based on terms of the purchase agreement, the company paid LDI cash equal to the current assets minus current liabilities of the distillery assets, estimated at $11 million. The purchase price payment is subject to post-closing adjustments to fund a working capital true-up and to fund possible future indemnification claims. The acquisition was funded through bank financing.
The facilities now owned by MGPI at the Lawrenceburg Distillers site encompass over 50 acres, or approximately two-thirds of the total land area of 78 acres on which the LDI complex is situated. Other assets related to bottling and finished goods packaging, as well as the remaining acreage, have been acquired by a third party, which is not affiliated with MGPI.
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