Sprouts Farmers Market Prices 17M Share Offering by Selling Stockholders at $37.00/Share

Sprouts Farmers Market

today announced the pricing of an underwritten public offering of 17,000,000 shares of its common stock by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, LLC

, and certain other stockholders of the Company (collectively, the "Selling Stockholders") at a public offering price of $37.00 per share. The underwriters of the offering have the option, exercisable until December 25, 2013, to purchase up to an additional 2,550,000 shares of common stock from the Selling Stockholders. Apollo is selling approximately 8.8 million of the total shares (10.2 million if the underwriters' option is exercised in full). The offering is scheduled to close on December 2, 2013, subject to customary closing conditions. The Selling Stockholders will receive all of the proceeds from the offering.  The offering is being made through an underwriting group led by Goldman, Sachs & Co., Credit Suisse, BofA Merrill Lynch, Apollo Global Securities, Barclays, Deutsche Bank Securities, UBS Investment Bank, Guggenheim Securities and Wolfe Research Securities. Goldman, Sachs & Co., Credit Suisse and BofA Merrill Lynch are acting as joint book-running managers of the offering, and Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Credit Suisse are the representatives of the