Vitro Shareholders Approve Divestiture of its Glass Containers Food and Beverage Division to Owens Illinois

Vitro, S.A.B. de C.V. (BMV: VITROA), leading glass manufacturer in Mexico, announced that on an Ordinary Shareholders Meeting held today, the Company’s shareholders approved Owens-Illinois, Inc’s. (NYSE: OI) US$2.15 billion offer to acquire 100% of Vitro’s Food and Beverages Glass Containers business assets.   Included in the transaction are five Food and Beverages Glass Container manufacturing plants located in Mexico, the operations in Bolivia and the distribution of such products in the United States.  The value of the offer is on a cash and debt free basis.Not included in this transaction are the assets associated with Vitro’s Cosmetics, Fragrances and Toiletries (“CFT”) segment, the Flat Glass Division (which includes Automotive Glass business and Float Glass for the Construction Market), its equity participation in the Comegua joint venture, in Central America, as well as well as the Company’s Chemical and Machinery and Equipment businesses, with estimated pro forma 2015 consolidated sales of $865 million and EBITDA of $165 million considering the divestiture would have occurred on January first 2015.“We are grateful for the support of our shareholders as we achieve another milestone in our goal to further increase the value of Vitro,” said Adrián Sada Gonzalez, Vitro’s Chairman of the Board. “We look forward to completing the transaction with Owens Illinois, a company that we admire and a leader in the Food and Beverage Glass Containers industry.”Adrián Sada Cueva, CEO of Vitro, commented: "This transaction will further strengthen our Company both operationally and financially.”“Over the past five years we have established a culture of cost controls and increased productivity across the organization while consistently providing high quality products and services to our customers, which have enabled Vitro to achieve CAGR growth of 5.7% in EBITDA between 2009 and 2014.