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Fluor to acquire Stork

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Fluor Corp. has signed an agreement with Arle Capital Partners to acquire 100% of Stork Holding B.V. for an investment of approximately €695 million (US$755 million).

Stork is a global provider of maintenance, modification and asset integrity services associated with large existing industrial facilities in the oil and gas, chemicals, petrochemicals, industrial and power markets.

Fluor’s Chairman and CEO, David Seaton, said: “The acquisition of Stork is consistent with Fluor’s goal to further enhance our integrated solutions capabilities in thoughtful, strategic ways that will increase the value we deliver to our clients and shareholders […] We are pleased to welcome Stork’s talented workforce of more than 15 000 employees, which will provide us with additional flexibility and capacity to increase our maintenance and direct construction activities. Stork is highly complementary to Fluor as it gives both businesses the opportunity to market diverse services and capabilities to new customers and across new geographies.”

“Stork’s business is largely driven by ongoing operating budgets and is therefore less impacted by volatile commodity prices. In addition, Stork’s continuous site presence will help us improve our ability to meet our customers’ needs throughout the full lifecycle of an operating plant, and provide Fluor with an ongoing earnings stream and robust growth opportunities,” Seaton added.

Stork CEO, Arnold Steenbakker, added: “We are very proud that a world-class company like Fluor recognises Stork’s strong reputation, capable workforce and performance as a global industrial services provider. The combination will create new opportunities to expand our global footprint and deepen the product and services offering to our customers. Stork’s activities are complementary to those of Fluor and the combination will create a global leader in the industrial services business.”

Upon closing of the acquisition, Fluor will begin combining Fluor’s Operations & Maintenance organisation with Stork. Current Stork CEO, Arnold Steenbakker, will lead the combined group and report directly to Fluor’s CEO, David Seaton. The management team will be formed by Stork’s existing management combined with the managers of Fluor’s Operations & Maintenance business. The combined group will be branded Stork and will be headquartered in the Netherlands. It will have an annual turnover of approximately €2.1 billion (US$2.3 billion) and a total of approximately 19 000 employees. 

The acquisition is expected to be accretive to Fluor’s earnings per share in 2016. Fluor expects to achieve significant synergies including increased revenues from cross-selling and expansion into new markets.

Goldman Sachs acted as exclusive financial adviser to Fluor.


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