---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001437749-22-001857"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FUL"
cik: "0000039368"
company_name: "FULLER H B CO"
filed_at: "2022-01-28T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-27T14:25:18.157771+00:00"
event_type: "m_and_a"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# H.B. Fuller acquires Apollo Chemicals, Fourny nv for $211M total; expects $8M annual synergies

## Summary
- Total purchase price $211M; multiple 12.3x EBITDA before synergies, 8.4x after expected $8M annual run-rate synergies.
- Apollo projected 2022 revenue ~£42M (~$56M) and EBITDA ~£11M (~$15M); Fourny had 2021 sales €8M and EBITDA €2.1M.
- Transactions financed via existing revolving credit facility; expected to be accretive to adjusted EPS in first year.
- Deals expand H.B. Fuller's position in UK and European construction roofing, industrial adhesives markets.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001437749-22-001857
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FUL
- cik: 0000039368
- company_name: FULLER H B CO
- filed_at: 2022-01-28T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: m_and_a
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/39368/000143774922001857/0001437749-22-001857-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/39368/000143774922001857/ful20220121_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-001857
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-001857.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001437749-22-001857.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  John C. van Roden, Jr. retired as director at FULLER H B CO.
  - Action: retired
  - Role: director
  source text: John C. van Roden, Jr. notified the Board of Directors of H.B. Fuller Company (the “Company”) of his retirement as a director of the Company effective at the end of his current term, April 7, 2022.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/39368/000143774922001857/0001437749-22-001857-index.htm

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