Culligan sells store division

ROSEMONT - Culligan International Co., a provider of water treatment and filtration systems for more than 70 years, announced the sale of its vended water business owned and operated by Culligan Store Solutions to Primo Water Corp., a retail water exchange and retail sales of water dispensers based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. The sale price is $105 million. The transaction is expected to close later this year. CSS provides self-serve retail vending of filtered drinking water, empty refillable water bottles, and store use filtered drinking water services throughout the United States and Canada at approximately 4,500 retail locations. CSS customers primarily include large retailers such as Walmart, Safeway, Meijer, Sobeys, Hy-Vee, Kroger and Target.