What was the purchase price for Woofie's, LLC that Benjamin Franklin Plumbing's parent company acquired?
Benjamin_Franklin_Plumbing Franchise · 2025 FDDAnswer from 2025 FDD Document
es assumed based on their estimated fair values as follows:
Assets acquired
| Current assets | $ 5,038 |
|---|---|
| Operating lease right-of-use assets | 175 |
| Property and equipment | 276 |
| Goodwill | 25,963 |
| Intangible assets and other assets (1) | 17,113 |
| Deferred tax assets | 231 |
| Assets acquired | 48,796 |
| Deferred revenue | (2,210) |
| Operating lease liabilities | (175) |
| Other liabilities assumed | (855) |
| Purchase Price | $ 45,556 |
(1) Identifiable intangible assets acquired include referral relationships, trademarks and non-competition agreements which will be amortized on a straight-line basis over their preliminary useful lives of 15 years, 25 years and 3 years, respectively.
Woofie's
On January 21, 2022, the Company entered into a purchase and sale agreement to acquire 100% of the outstanding equity interests of Woofie's, LLC and its subsidiaries Woofie's Mobile Pet Spa, LLC and Woofie's Pet Venture, LLC for a purchase price of $5,043. Woofie's is a professional pet care franchise company that provides pet sitting, training, walking as well as mobile pet spa services and was acquired to allow for the expansion of the Company's presence within its home services franchising platform. The acquisition was funded with rollover equity of $1,040 and cash held by the Company. Goodwill largely consists of strategic and synergistic opportunities resulting from combi
Source: Item 22 — CONTRACTS (FDD pages 87–88)
What This Means (2025 FDD)
According to the 2025 FDD, Benjamin Franklin Plumbing's parent company acquired Woofie's, LLC on January 21, 2022. The purchase price for 100% of the outstanding equity interests of Woofie's, LLC and its subsidiaries, Woofie's Mobile Pet Spa, LLC and Woofie's Pet Venture, LLC, was $5,043.
This acquisition was made to expand the company's presence in the home services franchising platform. The acquisition was funded through rollover equity of $1,040 and cash held by the company. The FDD notes that goodwill largely consists of strategic and synergistic opportunities resulting from combining Woofie's with the company's existing businesses, and that no goodwill related to this acquisition is expected to be deductible for income tax purposes.
As a result of the transaction, the company incurred and expensed transaction costs of $248. The company accounted for the acquisition as a business combination pursuant to ASC 805, assigning fair values to tangible and identifiable intangible assets and assumed liabilities at the acquisition date. The FDD states that there were no material changes to the purchase price allocation for the Woofie's Acquisition during the year ended December 31, 2023.