ACQUISITIONS

For a description of the Company’s acquisition activity for the year ended December 31, 2015 including the acquisition of Pall Corporation (“Pall”), reference is made to the financial statements as of and for the year ended December 31, 2015 and Note 2 thereto included in the Company’s 2015 Annual Report on Form 10-K.

The Company continually evaluates potential acquisitions that either strategically fit with the Company’s existing portfolio or expand the Company’s portfolio into a new and attractive business area. The Company has completed a number of acquisitions that have been accounted for as purchases and have resulted in the recognition of goodwill in the Company’s financial statements. This goodwill arises because the purchase prices for these businesses reflect a number of factors including the future earnings and cash flow potential of these businesses, the multiple to earnings, cash flow and other factors at which similar businesses have been purchased by other acquirers, the competitive nature of the processes by which the Company acquired the businesses, avoidance of the time and costs which would be required (and the associated risks that would be encountered) to enhance the Company's existing product offerings to key target markets and enter into new and profitable businesses, and the complementary strategic fit and resulting synergies these businesses bring to existing operations.

The Company makes an initial allocation of the purchase price at the date of acquisition based upon its understanding of the fair value of the acquired assets and assumed liabilities. The Company obtains this information during due diligence and through other sources. In the months after closing, as the Company obtains additional information about these assets and liabilities, including through tangible and intangible asset appraisals, and learns more about the newly acquired business, it is able to refine the estimates of fair value and more accurately allocate the purchase price. Only items identified as of the acquisition date are considered for subsequent adjustment. The Company is continuing to evaluate certain pre-acquisition contingencies associated with certain of its 2016 and 2015 acquisitions and is also in the process of obtaining valuations of certain property, plant and equipment, acquired intangible assets and certain acquisition-related liabilities in connection with these acquisitions. The Company will make appropriate adjustments to the purchase price allocation prior to completion of the measurement period, as required.

During the first three months of 2016, the Company acquired six businesses for total consideration of $108 million in cash, net of cash acquired. The businesses acquired complement existing units of the Environmental, Life Sciences & Diagnostics, Dental and Industrial Technologies segments. The aggregate annual sales of these six businesses at the time of their respective acquisitions, in each case based on the company’s revenues for its last completed fiscal year prior to the acquisition, were approximately $65 million. The Company preliminarily recorded an aggregate of $82 million of goodwill related to these acquisitions.

The following summarizes the estimated fair values of the assets acquired and liabilities assumed at the date of acquisition for all acquisitions consummated during the three month period ended April 1, 2016 ($ in millions):



Trade accounts receivable	$	9.9
Inventories	9.6
Property, plant and equipment	5.2
Goodwill	82.3
Other intangible assets, primarily customer relationships, trade names and technology	21.9
Trade accounts payable	(4.0		)
Other assets and liabilities, net	(17.4		)
Net cash consideration	$	107.5

Pro Forma Financial Information

The unaudited pro forma information for the periods set forth below gives effect to the 2016 and 2015 acquisitions as if they had occurred as of January 1, 2015. The pro forma information is presented for informational purposes only and is not necessarily indicative of the results of operations that actually would have been achieved had the acquisitions been consummated as of that time ($ in millions, except per share amounts):



	Three Month Period Ended
	April 1, 2016		April 3, 2015
Sales	$	5,389.9	$	5,455.4
Net earnings from continuing operations	758.6		539.1
Diluted net earnings per share from continuing operations	1.09		0.75

The three month period ended April 3, 2015 unaudited pro forma revenue and earnings set forth above were adjusted to include the $55 million pretax impact of nonrecurring acquisition date fair value adjustments to inventory and deferred revenue, net of the positive impact of freezing pension benefits, related to the 2015 acquisition of Pall.