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8th September 2009 Mergers & Acquisitions

34 MORE ACQUISITIONS IN JULY/AUGUST

The pace of food and drink company acquisitions continued unabated over the summer months.

Out of 34 more recorded in July and August, 10 were in soft drinks, 5 in beer, 5 in wine and spirits, 3 in ingredients and 3 in packaging.

23 countries were involved, led by the United States and United Kingdom, with other important contributions from France, Russia, China and Japan.

16 of the transactions were across borders, 18 within single countries. Anheuser-Busch InBev and Rio Tinto both made two divestments.

The biggest deal was PepsiCo’s $7.8 billion agreement to buy out its two leading bottlers. Rio Tinto’s sales added up to $3.2 billion.

Jul 09

Packaging

US Ball Corporation to buy four beverage can plants from Anheuser-Busch InBev

$577m

Soft drinks

US Sunny Delight owner Beverage Holdings buys Bossa Nova from JW Childs private equity firm and Coca-Cola

Dairy

China’s COFCO and Hopu private equity fund to buy 20% of Mengniu

$790m

Packaging

Bemis of US to acquire Food Americas operations of Alcan Packaging from Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto

$1.2 bn

Beer

Affinity Equity Partners to buy 50% of South Korea’s Oriental Brewery from Kohlberg Kravis Roberts private equity firm of US

$400 m

Dairy

Nutritek from Russia buys New Zealand Dairies

Equipment

Tetra Pak from Sweden acquires mixer assets from Scanima of Denmark

Juice

New Zealand’s Frucor to buy Simply Squeezed

Food

UK Key Capital Partners leads management buy out of TSC Foods

$24 m

Food

UK Heather Mills buys Redwood Wholefood

Wine

UK Global Vintners buys Ehrmanns importer

Equipment

US SigmaBleyzer private equity firm buys Jus-Made drink mix maker

Spirits

Illva Saronno from Italy buys Tia Maria liqueur brand from Pernod Ricard of France

$125m

Soft drinks

Japan’s Suntory to buy soft drinks division of Nichirei

Y5.5bn Sales

Beer

China’s Tsingtao Brewery to buy Baotuquan from Tsingtao Group

CNY 9m

Hot drinks

Arab Investments buys UK based Coffee Republic coffee shop chain

Bottled water

Austria’s Vöslauer merges with brewer Ottakringer

Aug 09

Ingredients

US Nutra to buy Nutritional Specialties assets from Baywood

$8m

Vodka

Central European Distribution Corporation from Poland buys additional 6% of Russian Alcohol Group

$30m

Fruit

Dole from US to sell certain operations in Latin America

$68m

Ingredients

Natraceutical from Spain to merge with Naturex of France

€200m sales

Soft drinks

US PepsiCo to buy remaining shares in Pepsi Bottling Group and PepsiAmericas

$7.8bn

Soft drinks

Coca-Cola from US buys back plant in Philippines

$100m

Wine

Boisset Family Estates from France buys Raymond Vineyard & Cellar in United States

Beer

Cerveceria Nacional Dominicana to buy Caribbean breweries from Royal Unibrew of Denmark

$31m

Soft drinks

Japan’s Sapporo to buy 22% stake in Pokka from Advantage investment fund

$105m

Soft drinks

PepsiCo from US to buy Amacoco in Brazil

Beer

Efes from Turkey to buy remaining 7% stake in Krasny Vostok of Russia from Tradex

$30m

Soft drinks

US Full Motion buys Mojito

Wine

France’s LVMH buys 50% stake in Chateau Cheval Blanc and La Tour du Pin

Packaging

Amcor of Australia to buy Alcan packaging assets from Anglo-Australian Rio Tinto

2.0bn

Soft drinks

US AMI Brands buys Embodi

Ingredients

UK Brenntag buys packed glucose syrup business from Cargill

Beer

C&C from Ireland buys Ireland, Northern Ireland and Scotland businesses from Anheuser-Busch InBev of Belgium

£180m

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