. in accordance with the definitive agreement and plan of merger , a subsidiary of general mills merged into blue buffalo , with blue buffalo surviving the merger as a wholly owned subsidiary of general mills . in accordance with the merger agreement , equity holders of blue buffalo received $ 40.00 per share in cash . we financed the transaction with a combination of $ 6.0 billion in debt , $ 1.0 billion in equity , and cash on hand . in fiscal 2019 , we recorded acquisition integration costs of $ 25