NEWELL RUBBERMAID COMPLETES DYMO ACQUISITIONATLANTA, 23.11.2005
DYMO a global leader in designing, manufacturing and marketing on-demand
labeling solutions, for approximately $730 million. This transaction
strengthens the company’s global leadership position in the office
products market. Newell Rubbermaid continues to expect the acquisition
to be neutral to earnings in 2005 and approximately $0.06 per share
accretive in 2006.Mark Ketchum, chief executive officer of Newell
Rubbermaid, said, “DYMO is a strategic extension of our Office Products
portfolio and adds depth to our product offering. We welcome the DYMO
associates and look forward to leveraging the great DYMO brand and
innovation capability with Newell Rubbermaid’s resources to further grow
our leadership position.”
DYMO holds a strong position in consumer, office and industrial channels
in Europe, North America and Australia. Supported by innovative,
patented new products marketed under wellknown brand names including
LabelWriter®, LabelManager®, LetraTAG® and RhinoPro, DYMO will be
integrated into Newell Rubbermaid’s Office Products Group which
accounted for $1.7 billion of the company’s $6.4 billion in sales in
2004. DYMO will operate as a strategic business unit within the Office
Products Group. The Office Products Group manufactures and markets
writing instruments, art products and office organization supplies, led
by a powerful brand family including: Sharpie®, Paper Mate®, Parker®,
Waterman®, EXPO®, rotring®, Reynolds®, Berol® and Rolodex®, among others.
Steve Marton, Newell Rubbermaid Office Products group president, stated,
“DYMO’s history of strong revenue growth and profitability is built upon
their results-driven culture and the ability to bring innovative
products to market. The combination of our scale and breadth of
leadership brands, marketing resources and global distribution
capabilities with DYMO’s category-leading products provides compelling
growth opportunities for this strategic business unit.”
Phil Damiano, DYMO president, said, “We’re excited about joining the
Office Products Group and through this combination we are
well-positioned to meet evolving customer needs for innovative,
value-added products.”
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dependence on the strength of retail economies in various parts of the
world; competition with numerous other manufacturers and distributors of
consumer products; major retailers’ strong bargaining power; changes in
the prices of raw materials used by the company; our ability to develop
innovative new products and to develop, maintain and strengthen our
end-user brands; our ability to expeditiously close facilities and move
operations in the face of foreign regulations and other impediments; our
ability to implement successfully information technology solutions
throughout our organization; our ability to improve productivity and
streamline operations; our ability to complete strategic acquisitions
(including DYMO); our ability to integrate previously acquired
businesses; the risks inherent in our foreign operations and those
factors listed in the company’s most recent Form 10-Q or 10-K, including
Exhibit 99.1 thereto, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
About Newell Rubbermaid
Newell Rubbermaid Inc. is a global marketer of consumer and commercial
products with 2004 sales of $6.4 billion and a powerful brand family
including Sharpie®, Paper Mate®, Waterman®, EXPO®, DYMO®, IRWIN®,
LENOX®, BernzOmatic®, Rubbermaid®, Graco®, Calphalon® and Goody®. The
company is headquartered in Atlanta, Ga., and has approximately 30,000
employees worldwide. This press release and additional financial
information about the company is available on the company’s web site at
www.newellrubbermaid.com.
