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Plantronics acquisitions, on the record

The businesses Plantronics bought and sold, as its annual reports describe them, with the cash it reported paying for acquisitions each year and every deal filing since 2016.

Deals its annual reports describe

Business	Deal	When	Value
Consumer Gaming assets (sold to Nacon S.A.) Word for word“As we announced on February 4, 2020, the Company entered into a definitive agreement with Nacon S.A. and closed the transaction on March 19, 2020, completing the sale of the Company's Consumer Gaming assets for a net amount that is not material to the Company's consolidated financial statements.” 10-K for 2020	agreed divestiture	—	a net amount that is not material to the Company's consolidated financial statements
Polycom, Inc. Word for word“On July 2, 2018, the Company completed the acquisition of all the issued and outstanding shares of capital stock of Polycom, Inc. ("Polycom") for approximately $2.2 billion in stock and cash (the "Acquisition").” 10-K for 2020	acquisition	On July 2, 2018	approximately $2.2 billion in stock and cash
consumer gaming assets Word for word“declines in the our consumer Headsets portfolio primarily due to our decision to discontinue certain low-margin mono and stereo products and the sale of our gaming headset assets in the fourth quarter of Fiscal Year 2020.” 10-K for 2021	divestiture	fourth quarter of Fiscal Year 2020	—
Poly (Plantronics, Inc.), to be acquired by HP Inc. Word for word“Under the Merger Agreement, at the effective time of the Merger, each issued and outstanding share of Poly’s common stock (except as otherwise set forth in the Merger Agreement) will be canceled and automatically converted into the right to receive $40.00 in cash, without interest and less any applicable withholding taxes.” 10-K for 2022	agreed acquisition	—	$40.00 in cash

As filedReported in the company's financial data (XBRL), each linked to its filing
Fiscal year ended	Cash paid for acquisitions (net of cash acquired)
2017-03-31	$0
2018-03-31	$0
2019-03-30	$1.64 billion
2020-03-28	$0
2021-04-03	$0

Deal filings since 2016

2022-08-29 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2022-07-27 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2022-03-28 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-12-29 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2021-03-04 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2020-02-21 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2020-02-11 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-08-31 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2018-07-02 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2018-07-02 Form 8-K, Item 2.01: Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets
2018-03-28 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2017-05-01 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement
2016-05-03 Form 8-K, Item 1.01: Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement

Read from Plantronics’s annual reports (10-K for 2022, 10-K for 2021, 10-K for 2020) and the financial data it files with the SEC, as of 2022-05-27. Every quotation is word for word from the filing linked beside it; how these pages are built and checked. The full record is in its company data sheet.