Complete the acquisition of Pureit from Unilever
Delivered by the deadline
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- Announced
- 15 Jul 2024
- Due
- 31 Dec 2024
- Delivered
- 1 Nov 2024
- Deadline
- Met
- Late
- Not met
- Today
What the company said
“The Company expects to complete the acquisition of Pureit by the end of 2024”
What we found
Evidence strength A What the grades mean
Later filings state the Pureit acquisition from Unilever closed on November 1, 2024, before the end-2024 deadline.
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A A. O. Smith 10-K filed 2025-02-11
“During the fourth quarter of 2024, the Company acquired Pureit, a residential water purification business in South Asia, from Unilever” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A A. O. Smith 10-Q filed 2025-04-29
“On November 1, 2024, we acquired Pureit from Unilever for approximately $125 million, subject to customary adjustments.” ✓ confirmed on the page
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A A. O. Smith 10-K filed 2026-02-10
“On November 1, 2024, we acquired Pureit from Unilever for approximately $125 million, subject to customary adjustments.” ✓ confirmed on the page
Market reaction: the shares moved -0.4% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (10 Feb 2025 to 13 Feb 2025). What this measures
Checked 11 Oct 2026.
Commitment lineage
Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.
- 2 versions
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Version 1 · original · stated 15 Jul 2024
Deadline 31 Dec 2024 (“by the end of 2024”) · wording expected
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Version 2 · stated 22 Oct 2024
Deadline 31 Dec 2024 (“by the end of 2024”) · wording firm
“Our acquisition of Pureit is on track to close by the end of 2024.”
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
- Complete
- Deliverable
- Acquisition of Pureit water purification business
- Where
- South Asia
- Language
- Expected (“expects”, “plans”)
- In the company’s control
- Medium
- Specificity
- High
- Depends on
- Regulatory, Counterparty
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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