Close the divestiture of the Avian Vaccine business
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 2 Nov 2022
- Due
- 31 Dec 2022
- Delivered
- 20 Dec 2022
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“The transaction is expected to close by the end of the year”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Charles River completed the sale of its Avian Vaccine Services business on December 20, 2022, before the year-end deadline.
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A Charles River Laboratories 10-K filed 2023-02-22
“On December 20, 2022, we completed the sale of our Avian Vaccine Services (Avian) business to a private investor group for a preliminary purchase price of $169 million in cash” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A Charles River Laboratories 10-Q filed 2023-05-11
“On December 20, 2022, we completed the sale of our Avian Vaccine Services (Avian) business to a private investor group” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -9.1% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (21 Feb 2023 to 24 Feb 2023). What this measures
Checked 10 Oct 2026.
Commitment DNA
The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.
- Event type
- Acquisition close
- Indicative materiality
- High rules
- Action
- Close
- Deliverable
- Avian Vaccine business divestiture
- Where
- United States
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- High
- Specificity
- High
How this entry was checked
- Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
- First checkAn AI model, Claude (Anthropic), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
- Second check: agreesA different AI model, Gemini (Google), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.
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