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4th August 2010 Mergers & Acquisitions

34 ACQUISITIONS IN JULY

July was a bumper month for transactions in terms of numbers and variety, but few were above $1 billion.

I’ve recorded 34 across a wide range of sectors. 11 were in soft drinks, 6 in alcohol and 5 in dairy.

Over 25 countries were involved, with the United States most active by far, followed by France, the United Kingdom, China and Singapore.

Two deals were worth over $1 billion – an Asian sugar acquisition and the European tie up between Birds Eye and Findus. Kirin’s stake in Fraser & Neave came close at $970 million.



Jun

Beer

US Metropoulos private
investment fund buys Pabst Brewing Co from Kalmanovitz
Charitable Trust

$500m sales

Jul

Food

Atlantic Grupa from Croatia to
buy Droga Kolinska of
Slovenia from Istrabenz

€382m



Packaging

Graham Packaging from US completes purchase of China Roots
from PCCS Group



Spirits

William Grant from UK completes purchase of spirits
business from C&C of Ireland

€300m


Sugar

American Sugar Refining to buy EU sugar refining
operations from Tate & Lyle of UK

£211m


Wine

Diego Zamora from Spain buys Ambrosio
Velasco from Pernod Ricard
of France

€33.1m


Beer

Czech Pivovary Staropramen absorbs Starbev
Czech Republic and Malvil Consulting



Confectionery

Oryxa Capital investment fund
buys Kandia-Excelent in Romania from Kraft of US



Dairy

US Hain Celestial buys 3 Greek
Gods yogurt business

$10m sales


Fruit juice

Cott from Canada to buy Cliffstar own label producer in United States

$500m


Packaging

DS Smith from UK to buy Otor in
France from Carlyle private equity firm

£206m


Soft drinks

US NutriPure Beverages to buy Brenlin distributor



Sugar

Singapore’s Wilmar to buy Sucrogen from CSR of Australia

$1.5bn


Beer

Carlsberg from Denmark increases stake in Olivaria of Belarus from 30% to 47%



Soft drinks

US Famous Products buys DNA Beverage and is renamed DNA
Brands



Ingredients

Canada’s Marco Hi-Tech to buy Reducol
business from Forbes Medi-Tech

$1.4m


Packaging

US Sun Capital private investment firm completes purchase
of assets from Bemis

$82m


Soft drinks

US alcohol business Iconic Brands buys Specialty Beverage
and Supplement



Frozen food

Permira private equity group to
buy Findus in Italy from Unilever of UK/Netherlands and merge Findus with
Birds Eye Iglo of UK

€805m


Dairy

Olam International from
Singapore to buy remaining 82% of NZ Farming Systems Uruguay

NZ$110m


Fruit juice

US SensoryEffects Flavor Systems buys Juice Pac



Food

Olam International from
Singapore completes purchase of Gilroy Foods & Flavours from ConAgra of
US

$250m


Soft drinks

Sewco International buys 82% of
Tycoon iced tea producer in China

HK$390m


Water

Best Water Technology from Austria buys Culligan International UK



Wine

Castel from France to buy Barton & Guestier
in US from Diageo of UK



Dairy

Bright Dairy from China to buy 51% of Synlait
Milk in New Zealand

$59m


Soft drinks

Kiev Investment Group from Ukraine buys Rosinka in Ukraine from Suntory of Japan

$50m est


Water coolers

Eden Springs from Israel to buy Nestlé Waters Direct
France from Nestlé of Switzerland



Soft drinks

Kirin from Japan buys 14.7% of Fraser & Neave in Malaysia from Temasek
of Singapore

$970m


Packaging

US Ball Corporation buys Neuman Aluminum

$128m sales


Spirits

Henkell from Germany to buy
three brands from Beam Global Spirits & Wine of US



Fruit juice

SAIF Partners private equity group from Hong Kong buys 23%
of Huiyuan in China from Danone
of France

€200m


Dairy

Danone from France buys 51% of ProViva in Sweden from Skanemejerier
of Sweden



Dairy

Lactalis from France buys
Rachel’s of UK from Dean Foods of US



Food

US Pierre Foods, Advance Food Company and Advance Brands
to merge as Advance Pierre Foods

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