---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001424929-23-000153"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FOXF"
cik: "0001424929"
company_name: "FOX FACTORY HOLDING CORP"
filed_at: "2023-11-03T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-08T22:15:06.963356+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Fox Factory to acquire Wheelhouse (Marucci Sports) for $572M enterprise value

## Summary
- Enterprise value of $572 million; purchase price subject to working capital and debt adjustments.
- Acquisition financed via up to $400M term loan and $200M delayed draw term loan under existing credit facility.
- Transaction expected to close in November 2023; subject to HSR and other customary conditions.
- Wheelhouse owns Marucci Sports, a designer and marketer of premium baseball/softball equipment.
- Incremental term loans carry SOFR + 1.50-2.50% margin with April 2027 maturity.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001424929-23-000153
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FOXF
- cik: 0001424929
- company_name: FOX FACTORY HOLDING CORP
- filed_at: 2023-11-03T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1424929/000142492923000153/0001424929-23-000153-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1424929/000142492923000153/foxf-20231101.htm

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## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  FOX FACTORY HOLDING CORP entered into Agreement and Plan of Merger with Wheelhouse Holdings Inc. valued at Merger of Marucci Merger Sub, Inc. with and into Wheelhouse Holdings Inc. (effective 2023-11-01).
  - Action: entry
  - Agreement: merger
  - Counterparty: Wheelhouse Holdings Inc.
  - Value: Merger of Marucci Merger Sub, Inc. with and into Wheelhouse Holdings Inc.
  - Effective: 2023-11-01
  source text: AGREEMENT AND PLAN OF MERGER BY AND AMONG FOX FACTORY, INC., MARUCCI MERGER SUB, INC., WHEELHOUSE HOLDINGS INC. and THE EQUITYHOLDERS’ REPRESENTATIVE NAMED HEREIN Dated as of November 1, 2023
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1424929/000142492923000153/0001424929-23-000153-index.htm

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