Franklin Electric – FELE – Announces Acquisition Of Cerus Industrial Inc.


Franklin Electric Co., Inc. (NASDAQ:FELE) announced that it has completed the acquisition of 100 percent of the outstanding stock of Cerus Industrial Inc., based in Hillsboro, Oregon. Cerus designs, manufactures, and distributes motor controls, motor starters, contactors, protection devices, and variable frequency drives to a wide range of distributor and original equipment manufacturers in North America who serve three primary markets: HVAC, industrial motor sales and service, and pumping systems. 2011 sales for Cerus were approximately $14.0 million.

Franklin Electric (FELE) has agreed to pay $25.7 million in an all cash transaction. FELE believes Cerus will be accretive to 2013 earnings per share.

Scott Trumbull, Franklin Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented:  “Cerus has deep technical and manufacturing strengths in several areas that are of strategic interest to Franklin Electric including variable frequency drives, starters, and control panels.


The demand for electronic drives and controls for pumping applications is growing rapidly because these devices allow our customers to reduce energy cost, increase system life, and manage system parameters such as pressure and flow. While Franklin has been a leader in applying drive and control technologies to groundwater pumping systems, we believe that the Cerus acquisition will enable us to further accelerate our growth by increasing our technical and product development capacity, broadening our product line, reducing our manufacturing costs and moving us into adjacent market areas.”

About Franklin Electric – FELE

Franklin Electric (FELE) is a global leader in the production and marketing of systems and components for the movement of water and automotive fuels. Recognized as a technical leader in its specialties, Franklin serves customers around the world in residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial, municipal, and fueling applications.

Water Systems

Long recognized as the world’s largest manufacturer of submersible electric motors, Franklin Electric has been able to leverage its expertise in motor applications to grow and serve several different markets. The principal application for Franklin products is clean water pumping systems, where the company offers pumps, motors, drives, and controls for use in a wide variety of residential, commercial, agricultural, and industrial installations.

Franklin also serves the water transfer market with products that include wastewater pumps; sump, sewage, effluent pumps; dewatering and trash pumps; condensate pumps; magnetic drive pumps; low pressure sewer systems; water garden pumps and products; and a wide variety of utility pumps.

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Ed Liston is a senior contributing editor at TheStockMarketWatch.com. An active market watcher and investor, Ed guides an independent team of experienced analysts and writes for multiple stock trader publications. He is widely quoted in various financial publications on the Internet. When Ed is not writing about stocks, investing in stocks, talking about stocks, or otherwise doing something stock related, he likes to go sailing and fishing.

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