Culligan to sell vending machine business
ROSEMONT -- Culligan International Co., a provider of water treatment and filtration systems for more than 70 years, said Monday that it sold its Culligan Store Solutions LLC, to Primo Water Corp., a retail water exchange and retail sales of water dispensers for $105 million.
The transaction is expected to close later this year, the companies said in a statement.
CSS provides self-serve retail vending of filtered drinking water, empty refillable water bottles, and store-use filtered drinking water services throughout the United States and Canada at about 4,500 retail locations. CSS customers primarily include large retailers such as Wal-Mart, Safeway, Meijer, Sobeys, Hy-Vee, Kroger and Target.
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