KKR to Buy Borden Dairy Out of Bankruptcy

Non-public fairness huge KKR and Capitol Peak have received the auction to buy Borden Dairy out of personal bankruptcy, in accordance to court docket documents and folks familiar with the subject.

The deal nevertheless requires to be approved by the personal bankruptcy court docket in Delaware, exactly where a listening to is scheduled for Thursday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

Capitol Peak was founded in 2017 by Gregg Engles, the former head of Dean Foodstuff, a rival of Borden Dairy. KKR bought Borden in 1995 for $two billion and later on marketed off divisions and business makes though remaining a loan provider on its $one hundred seventy five million phrase mortgage.

Borden filed for Chapter 11 defense in January. In accordance to court docket documents, KKR imagined it had arrived at an arrangement with Borden to prevent personal bankruptcy and was sad when the business filed in January. KKR mentioned the personal bankruptcy mostly benefited ACON Investments.

In its personal bankruptcy submitting, Borden cited a forty six% drop in fluid milk consumption for each capita from 1980 to 2018. It mentioned the expense of raw milk, which it purchases from modest farmers, rose 27% in the previous year.

The business documented $1.two billion in revenue in 2018 but recorded a decline of extra than $fourteen.6 million. In 2019, it documented a decline of $forty two.four million. In its personal bankruptcy submitting, Borden mentioned it had assets and liabilities that were each amongst $one hundred million and $five hundred million.

Borden, as recently as April, had been contemplating a achievable merger with Dean Foodstuff. Dean Foodstuff filed for Chapter 11 personal bankruptcy past November.

“That was an strategy that I consider could have worked and been a very good outcome for all the stakeholders and developed an impartial processor. … We imagined it was a very good strategy but, frankly, it came late in their process,” Borden main executive officer Tony Sarsam mentioned in May.

Grupo Lala subsidiary Laguna Dairy is nevertheless the majority proprietor of Borden.

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