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The price that would be paid, including the earnouts over three years, would be in the range of 3.5-5 times Agrocentro's earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (ebitda), Dewdney said, and both parties were happy with that.
Agrocentre had revenues of about US$35 million a year, impressive growth for a company that started from scratch eight years ago. PGW's business in Uruguay was worth about US$100m a year.
It was like PGW in the services it provided, mostly to the beef, sheep and cropping farming community, Dewdney said, and it was one of the bigger farm servicing companies in Uruguay.