Dr Pepper Snapple and Keurig Green Mountain to merge – By Reuters (foxbusiness.com) /Jan 29 2018
Jan 29 (Reuters) – K-cup maker Keurig Green Mountain Inc will buy soda maker Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc (DPS) to form a beverage company with $11 billion in annual revenue.
Dr Pepper Snapple shareholders will be paid a special cash dividend of $103.75 per share and will own 13 percent of the combined company, which will be called Keurig Dr Pepper.
Germany’s JAB Holding Company, which owns a controlling stake in Keurig, will own the remaining 87 percent of Keurig Dr Pepper.
JAB said it would make an equity investment of $9 billion to finance the transaction.
Shares of Dr Pepper were up nearly 37 percent in premarket trade at $131.
Goldman Sachs served as lead financial adviser to Keurig and Credit Suisse served as financial adviser to Dr Pepper Snapple for the deal. (Reporting by Siddharth Cavale and Sangameswaran S in Bengaluru; Editing by Savio D’Souza)
PB/TK – Hot damn fill my coffee-kegger with a hot dr. pepper coffee mix.. caffeinated heaven
