August: Ecolab acquisition
It is not often an acquisition makes it into this gallery, especially as it was a news in brief and did not involve the sort of money sometimes handed over but I cannot argue with the facts.
The news that Ecolab was to acquire the US operations of Swisher Hygiene for $40m in cash received the most attention this month.
Ecolab expected the transaction to be very modestly dilutive over the first twelve months beginning in the fourth quarter of 2015 and become accretive afterwards.