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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

FORM 8-K

 

CURRENT REPORT

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)			May 1, 2024

 

OIL-DRI CORPORATION OF AMERICA

(Exact name of the registrant as specified in its charter)

Delaware

001-12622

36-2048898

(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation or organization)

(Commission File Number)

(I.R.S. Employer Identification No.)

410 North Michigan Avenue, Suite 400

60611-4213

Chicago, Illinois

(Zip Code)

(Address of principal executive offices)

The registrant's telephone number, including area code: (312) 321-1515

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report.)

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2. below):

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Securities registered pursuant to Section 12(b) of the Act:

Title of each class			Trading Symbol(s)			Name of each exchange on which registered
Common Stock, par value $0.10 per share			ODC			New York Stock Exchange

Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

Emerging growth company   ☐

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.   ¨

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			Item 2.01			Completion of Acquisition of Disposition of Assets.

As previously disclosed, on April 16, 2024, Oil-Dri Corporation of America, a Delaware corporation (the “Company”), entered into a Stock Purchase Agreement (the “Purchase Agreement”) with Ultra Pet, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Seller”), Ultra Pet Company, Inc., a Delaware corporation (“Ultra Pet”), and certain equityholders of Seller set forth on the signature page thereto (“Seller’s Equityholders”), pursuant to which the Company agreed to purchase all of the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of Ultra Pet (the “Shares”) from Seller (the “Transaction”).

On May 1, 2024, the Company completed the Transaction and acquired the Shares. At the closing of the Transaction (the “Closing”), the Company paid Seller an aggregate cash consideration of approximately $46 million, subject to certain adjustments set forth in the Purchase Agreement (as adjusted, the “Purchase Price”). A portion of the Purchase Price (approximately $3.3 million) was deposited in a specified escrow account for the purposes of satisfying any post-Closing indemnification claims made pursuant to the Purchase Agreement and certain post-Closing adjustments pursuant to the Purchase Price.

The foregoing description of the Purchase Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the Purchase Agreement, a copy of which was filed as Exhibit 2.1 to the Current Report on Form 8‑K filed by the Company on April 16, 2024 and is incorporated herein by reference.

The Purchase Agreement has been provided solely to inform investors of its terms. The representations, warranties and covenants contained in the Purchase Agreement were made only for the purposes of such agreement and as of specific dates and were made solely for the benefit of the parties to the Purchase Agreement and may be intended not as statements of fact, but rather as a way of allocating risk to one of the parties if those statements prove to be inaccurate. In addition, such representations, warranties and covenants may have been qualified by disclosures not reflected in the text of the Purchase Agreement and may apply standards of materiality in a way that is different from what may be viewed as material by stockholders of, or other investors in, us. The Company’s stockholders and other investors are not third-party beneficiaries under the Purchase Agreement and should not rely on the representations, warranties and covenants or any descriptions thereof as characterizations of the actual state of facts or conditions of the Company, Seller, Seller’s Equityholders, or Ultra Pet or any of their subsidiaries or affiliates.

			Item 2.03			Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant.

A portion of the Purchase Price was financed through a $10 million advance under the Company’s existing credit facility, as amended, with BMO Bank N.A., and through the issuance of $10 million in aggregate principal amount of 6.47% Series D Senior Notes due April 30, 2033 pursuant to the shelf facility provisions of the Company’s existing Amended and Restated Note Purchase and Private Shelf Agreement, as amended, with PGIM, Inc. (“Prudential”) and certain existing noteholders affiliated with Prudential.

			Item 7.01			Regulation FD Disclosure.

On May 1, 2024, the Company issued a press release (the “Press Release”) announcing (i) the Closing described in Item 2.01 above and (ii) the expected timing of the Company’s third quarter of fiscal 2024 earnings release and discussion. A copy of the Press Release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference.

The information in this Item 7.01 and Exhibit 99.1 shall not be deemed “filed” for purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”), or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that section. This information shall not be deemed to be incorporated by reference in any filing under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or the Exchange Act, except as shall be expressly set forth by specific reference to such disclosure in this Form 8-K in such a filing.

Forward-Looking Statements

Certain statements in this Current Report on Form 8-K may contain forward-looking statements, within the meaning of the safe harbor provisions of the U.S. Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, that are based on the Company’s current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about the Company’s future performance, business, beliefs and management’s assumptions. In addition, the Company, or others on the Company’s behalf, may make forward-looking statements in other press releases or written statements, or in the Company’s communications and discussions with investors and analysts in the normal course of business through meetings, webcasts, phone calls and conference calls. Forward-looking statements can be

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identified by words such as “expect,” “outlook,” “forecast,” “would,” “could,” “should,” “project,” “intend,” “plan,” “continue,” “believe,” “seek,” “estimate,” “anticipate,” “may,” “assume,” “potential,” “strive,” and similar references to future periods.

Such statements are subject to certain risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially, including, but not limited to, those described in Item 1A, “Risk Factors” of the Company’s Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended January 31, 2024 and the Company’s most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and from time to time in the Company’s other filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Should one or more of these or other risks or uncertainties materialize, or should underlying assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary materially from those anticipated, intended, expected, believed, estimated, projected, planned or otherwise expressed in any forward-looking statements. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date of this press release. Except to the extent required by law, the Company does not have any intention or obligation to update publicly any forward-looking statements after the distribution of this press release, whether as a result of new information, future events, changes in assumptions, or otherwise.

			Item 9.01			Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)Exhibits

Exhibit Number						Description of Exhibits
2.1*						Stock Purchase Agreement, dated April 16, 2024, by and among the Oil-Dri Corporation of America, Ultra Pet, LLC, Ultra Pet Company, Inc., and certain equityholders of Ultra Pet, LLC set forth on the signature page thereto (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to Oil-Dri Corporation of America’s Current Report on Form 8-K filed on April 16, 2024).
99.1						Press Release of the Company, dated May 1, 2024.
104						Cover Page Interactive Data File (the cover page XBRL tags are embedded within the iXBRL document).

 * The schedules and similar attachments to this exhibit have been omitted pursuant to Item 601(a)(5) of Regulation S-K. The Company agrees to provide a copy of the omitted schedules and similar attachments on a supplemental basis to the Commission or its staff, if requested.

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Company has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

			OIL-DRI CORPORATION OF AMERICA
			By:			/s/ Laura G. Scheland
						Laura G. Scheland
						Chief Legal Officer

Date:  May 1, 2024