During the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company completed four acquisitions in exchange for a total cash consideration at closing of $19,851, net of cash acquired ($1,600), cash consideration paid in January 2019 ($3,530) and the fair value of the Company’s pre-existing ownership position ($2,044). In addition, the Company assumed liabilities of $1,750 and capitalized costs of $108 incurred in the asset acquisition process. The total value of $27,283 has been preliminarily allocated as follows: product registrations and product rights $12,720, trade names, trademarks and patents $2,934, customer lists $739, goodwill $3,954, inventory $5,461, other working capital $122 and property, plant and equipment $27, and deferred tax assets $1,326.

The acquisition of TyraTech Inc. (TyraTech) was accounted for as a business combination. The Company acquired 65.62% of TyraTech’s issued and outstanding shares on November 8, 2018 in exchange for cash consideration of $2,154 at closing and liabilities assumed of $1,750. Together with the Company’s pre-existing ownership of 34.38% with a fair value of $2,044, TyraTech became a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company and was delisted from the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. TyraTech is a life sciences company focused on nature-derived insect and parasite control products. Their patented technology platform leverages synergistic essential oil combination to target invertebrate pest receptors that are not active in humans and other mammals. The assessment of the purchase price allocation related to the business combination is preliminary as at December 31, 2018 and will be completed during 2019. The preliminary purchase price allocation is based on information available to management and is as follows: working capital of $205, intangible assets of $436 and goodwill of $3,954, property, plant and equipment of $27, and deferred tax assets of $1,326. Goodwill is not expected to be deductible for income tax purposes. The preliminary fair value allocation is subject to change, which may be significant. The goodwill consists largely of acquired workforce and tax related matters. As a result of this acquisition, the Company was required to step up the value of its ownership and recorded a gain of $1,463. The acquired business was included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements from the date of acquisition.

Three of the acquisitions mentioned previously related to product lines, acquired from E.I DuPont et Nemours and Company (one) and Bayer CropScience (two), were purchased for total cash consideration at closing of $21,335, including transaction costs of $108, and $3,530 paid in January 2019. These acquisitions were accounted for as asset acquisitions because the Company did not acquire any substantive processes. Of this amount, $5,378 was recorded to inventory and the remaining to intangibles. One of the asset acquisitions includes contingent consideration in the form of potential milestone payments that could amount to a maximum additional payment of $12,500. These milestone payments will be recorded as additional acquisition costs upon the point in time the milestone criteria are met, if applicable. The purchase price allocation was completed as at December 31, 2018 and the acquired product lines were included in the Company’s consolidated financial statements from the date of acquisition.

Cash paid at closing for the asset acquisitions and business combination was funded through our revolving line of credit. The Company considers that the acquisitions completed during 2018 are immaterial individually and in the aggregate to the accompanying consolidated financial statements, and accordingly pro-forma financial information is not included.

During the year ended December 31, 2017, the Company completed acquisitions with a total combined purchase consideration, net of cash acquired, of $92,555 including cash paid at closing in the amount of $81,896 and deferred consideration of $10,659. At closing the Company recorded $12,814 related to tax matters associated with the acquisitions. At December 31, 2017 the purchase price was provisionally allocated as follows: product registrations and product rights $55,127, trade names and trademarks $9,500, customer relationships and customer lists $3,700, goodwill $22,184, working capital $14,679 and property, plant and equipment $512. The purchase price allocation was finalized during 2018, which resulted in a reduction in goodwill of $348.

The following unaudited pro forma information presents a summary of the Company’s combined results of operations for the years ended December 31, 2017, as if the 2017 business acquisitions had occurred on January 1, 2017. The following pro forma financial information is not necessarily indicative of the results of operations as they would have been had the transaction been effected on the assumed date, nor is it necessarily an indication of trends in future results for a number of reasons. Consequently, actual results will differ from the unaudited pro forma financial information.

	Year ended December 31, 2017
Pro forma net sales	$	458,793
Pro forma net income		24,540
Pro forma earnings per common share – basic		0.84
Pro forma earnings per common share – assuming dilution		0.83