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...The vitamin and nutrition business has been a popular target of private equity groups, with Carlyle purchasing NBTY for $3.8bn in 2010. GNC declined to comment....
...Shareholders in NBTY felt pepped up on Thursday morning....
...Carlyle, the US private equity group, has agreed to buy NBTY, a vitamin and nutritional supplement producer, in a $3.8bn cash deal that would be the biggest leveraged buy-out of the year, the FT reports....
...Carlyle is offering NBTY shareholders $55 a share, a 57 per cent premium to the company’s share price over the past month....
...Carlyle, the US private equity group, earlier this year paid about eight times earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation for rival vitamin franchise, NBTY....
...That was evident in Carlyle Group’s $3.8bn acquisition of NBTY, the US manufacturer and retailer of nutritional supplements, which is being financed with $1.4bn of equity from Carlyle’s $13.7bn US buy-out...
...NBTY, a maker of nutritional supplements, jumped 43.4 per cent on Thursday to $53.54 after the company agreed to be bought by Carlyle, a private equity group....
...NBTY , a maker of nutritional supplements, surged 43.4 per cent to $53.74 asthe company agreed to be bought by Carlyle, a private equity group, for $3.8bn, or $55 per share, in one of the biggest private...
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