Beacon Roofing Supply to Acquire Allied Building Products

Beacon Roofing Supply Inc. announced that the company has entered into an agreement to acquire Allied Building Products Corp. Beacon will purchase Allied from global diversified building products group CRH for $2.625 billion in cash.

Headquartered in Herndon, Va., Beacon is a distributor of residential and non-residential roofing and complementary building products, and the company currently has more than 380 locations in 48 states and six Canadian provinces.

Allied is headquartered in East Rutherford, N.J., and distributes products across 208 locations in 31 states. The company distributes exterior products, such as roofing, siding, windows and doors, and interior products, such as wallboard and suspended ceiling systems.

According to Beacon, the combination of Beacon and Allied will make Beacon one of the largest publicly traded wholesale building materials distributors in North America with pro forma revenues of approximately $7 billion and 593 branches in all 50 states and six provinces across Canada.

Beacon will also become the fourth largest wallboard and acoustical ceiling tile wholesale distributor in the United States, with more than $1 billion of revenue in the interior market category. Beacon and Allied have more than 150 years of combined experience providing service excellence to customers in the building products industry.

The expanded geographic footprint will allow Beacon to enter new local markets, particularly in New York, New Jersey and the upper Midwest. In addition, acquiring Allied allows Beacon to further strengthen the company’s position as a leader in roofing products distribution, while accelerating growth in other key product categories, including siding, windows, doors, decking, trim, waterproofing, insulation and solar.

Beacon expects to finance the acquisition with approximately $2.2 billion of debt financing, a new unsecured note and approximately $500 million of committed convertible preferred equity financing from an entity affiliated with the investment firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice (CD&R), which in October 2015 sold Roofing Supply Group (RSG) to Beacon. The parties currently expect to consummate the transaction on or around January 2, 2018, subject to satisfaction of customary closing conditions.

Robert R. Buck, chairman of Beacon’s board of directors, stated: “Allied is among the most established and respected companies in our industry, and we are proud that, through this acquisition, Beacon will become one of North America’s largest publicly traded building materials distributors and will operate locations in all 50 states. I want to thank CRH for entrusting Beacon with the future success of Allied and its dedicated employees, who have been part of the CRH family for more than 20 years. The Allied acquisition also presents a great opportunity for CD&R to again become a major shareholder in Beacon. Today is of great significance in Beacon’s history and for the future of building products distribution.”

Paul Isabella, Beacon’s president and chief executive officer, commented: “I would like to welcome the more than 3,500 employees from Allied to the Beacon family. We are thrilled to partner with such a loyal and dedicated workforce that shares our commitment to superior customer service and high levels of performance. We are also excited to become a significant player in the robust, growing and still-consolidating interior products market. Together, we will leverage the strengths of both companies, while remaining committed to preserving the deep customer relationships that we have each cultivated over 150 years of combined experience. This is a milestone moment in the long and successful histories of both companies.”