All Vista Outdoor articles
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ArticleVista Outdoor operating income dips 12 percent in Q1
The group’s Q1 sales met expectations, but profits exceeded forecasts despite a 12% drop in operating income. Sales fell by 7.1%, yet gross margin improved.
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ArticleVista to review strategic alternatives, shareholder meeting postponed
The Board of Directors of Vista Outdoor wants to examine strategic alternatives for the future of Revelyst and The Konetic Group – and is postponing the shareholders’ meeting once again.
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News briefsVista responds to MNC’s comments amidst wrangling over partial sale of the group
Vista Outdoor says that MNC Capital misled Vista’s investors by claiming that it needed the group’s approval to make a tender offer.
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ArticleCSG increases purchase price for The Kinetic Group to $2.15bn
CSG increased the base purchase price for acquiring The Kinetic Group business by $50 million to $2.15 billion, while Vista Outdoor reaffirms its FY25 outlook and reports preliminary Q1 results.
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ArticleVista Outdoor ammo sale facing headwind, and support
Before Vista Outdoor’s shareholders vote on the sale of The Kinetic Group ammunition business to CSG on July 23, two investors have come out strongly against the deal, while another proxy advisory firm is now recommending the purchase after initial opposition.
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ArticleVista’s Board of Directors reaffirms committment to sale of The Kinetic Group to CSG
Vista Outdoor’s Board of Directors has issued an open letter to its shareholders recommending once again the sale of The Kinetic Group, Vista’s ammo segment, to the Czech company CSG.
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News briefsRevelyst sells wood pellet manufacturer
Vista Outdoor’s outdoor segment, Revelyst, has announced the sale of the assets of Fiber Energy Products, the company’s wood pellet manufacturer, to Lignetics, Inc. Arkansas-based Fiber Energy began producing 100 percent natural wood pellet fuel in 2006 and has grown over time to become a manufacturer of barbecue pellets and ...
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ArticleCSG raises purchase price for The Kinetic Group to $2.1bn
Continuing the back-and-forth over the partial or complete sale of its business segments, Vista Outdoor has announced that it has entered into an amendment to the merger agreement with Czechoslovak Group a.s. (CSG) that increases the purchase price payable by CSG for the acquisition of The Kinetic Group business by ...
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News briefsVista Outdoor reviews MNC’s offer after receiving additional information
Vista Outdoor has officially confirmed receipt of additional information requested from Canadian MNC Capital to review a revised expression of interest from MNC expressing its final desire to acquire Vista Outdoor in an all-cash transaction for $42.00 per share. The Vista Outdoor Board is now carefully considering the additional information ...
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News briefsVista considers MNC’s new offer, postpones CSG vote
After Montréal-based MNC Capital raised its offer for all of Vista Outdoor to $3.2 billion, the group’s Board postponed the July 2 special meeting of shareholders to vote on the sale of The Kinetic Group to Czechoslovak Group (CSG) until July 23. The Board said it would consider MNC’s offer ...
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ArticleTug-of-war over Vista and Kinetic Group continues
While Vista Outdoor announced on June 25, after a long wait, that the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) has finally approved the proposed acquisition of Vista Outdoor’s The Kinetic Group division by Czechoslovak Group a.s. (CSG), Montréal-based MNC Capital Partners has once again stepped up its ...
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ArticleReaction to ISS disapproval: CSG increases offer for The Kinetic Group
After the US proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) recommended that Vista Outdoor shareholders abstain from voting on the Czechoslovak Group’s (CSG) offer for Vista Outdoor’s The Kinetic Group ammunition business, the Czech prospective buyer has now increased its purchase offer by $40 million from $1.96 billion to $2 ...
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News briefsAdvisory firm withdraws recommendation for The Kinetic Group/CSG deal
US proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS) has surprisingly recommended that Vista Outdoor shareholders abstain from voting on Czechoslovak Group’s (CSG) $1.96 billion bid for The Kinetic Group’s ammunition business. ISS has thus updated its analysis after initially recommending that the deal be approved. The transaction is to be ...
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ArticleVista rejects MNC offer, receives new indication of interest in ammo business
The sale and spin-off plans at Vista Outdoor remain in a state of suspense. The group announced that its Board of Directors, after consultation with its financial and legal advisors, has rejected MNC Capital’s unsolicited expression of interest dated June 6, 2024, in which MNC expressed an interest in acquiring ...
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ArticleVista rejects offer from MNC, decides to partially sell to CSG
Vista Outdoor announced that the Board has again rejected an unsolicited offer from Montréal-based MNC Capital dated March 25, 2024, in which MNC expressed an interest in acquiring Vista Outdoor in an all-cash transaction for $37.50 per Vista share. Michael Callahan, Chairman of the Board, commented that the Board determined ...
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ArticleVista Outdoor weighs buyout offer, reports Q4 results
The board of Vista Outdoor continues to recommend the sale of its The Kinetic Group to Czech group CSG, which would pay shareholders $12.90 a share in cash and one share in its Revelyst spin-off. However, the company will conduct a special meeting on June 14 to consider another buyout ...
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ArticleRevelyst sells ammunition brand
Revelyst, a Vista Outdoor Inc. company, has announced the sale of RCBS, the company’s reloading brand based in Oroville, California, to Hodgdon Powder Co. Inc, a Shawnee, Kansas-based supplier of smokeless propellants and black powder substitutes. RCBS is a leading manufacturer of ammunition reloading devices for hunters, competitive shooters and ...
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News briefsRevelyst reschedules investor day to early fall
Revelyst, the outdoor segment of Vista Outdoor Inc., has announced that the company will postpone its investor day. The change comes in light of the Vista Outdoor Board of Directors’ recent decision to postpone the date of its planned shareholder vote in connection with its third-party investment in the company. ...
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ArticleRevelyst hires supply chain and operations executive
Source: Revelyst Joe Beck While Vista Outdoor is still working to shape its future in the best interests of its shareholders, Revelyst, the former outdoor products segment of Vista Outdoor Inc., has announced the appointment of Joe Beck as its first Chief Supply Chain Officer, effective 22 ...
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ArticleVista Outdoor leaves option open to sell to MNC for higher price
The uncertainty surrounding the future of Vista Outdoor, respectively Revelyst and The Kinetic Group, continues as the company officially confirmed on April 22 that it has resumed negotiations with Montréal-based MNC Capital in connection with the unsolicited expression of interest dated March 25, 2024, in which MNC indicated it was ...
