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4th May 2010 Mergers & Acquisitions

35 ACQUISITIONS IN MARCH/APRIL

My homing pigeons bring news of 35 transactions during March and April. 13 were in soft drinks, 11 in dairy and 6 in alcohol.

They involved businesses from 25 countries, though less than half of the deals were international. US companies were buyers on 9 occasions, French on 5 and UK on 4. The scale of mergers was far lower than in the exceptional first two months of the year.

March

Dairy

Hubert Triballat from France to buy Goshua in Spain

€14m sales

Dairy

Lactalis from France to buy dairy business of Ebro Puleva in Spain

€630m

Bottled water

Siva from India to buy 50% of Isklar in Norway

$22m

Liqueur

South Africa’s KWV buys Wild Africa Cream liqueur from Wild Cape Liqueurs

Wine

France’s Biovidis buys Château La Rèze Gravade from Louis and Henri Andrieu

Dairy

South Africa’s Clover buys 35% of own shares from HCI

$46m

Ingredients

UK Fuerst Day Lawson buys Regency Mowbray

Water coolers

Waterlogic Norway buys Cool Chili point of use assets in Norway

Fruit juice

Coca-Cola from US to buy majority stake in Nidan of Russia from Lion Capital private equity firm

Dairy

New Zealand’s Natural Dairy to buy milk powder plant and other assets

NZ $1.5bn

Ingredients

Denmark’s Lallemand Health Ingredients and Lal’Food merge

Soft drinks

3i from UK buys 20% stake in Refresco of Netherlands

€84m

Dairy

Bongrain from France buys 84% of Delaco in Romania

Dairy

Bongrain from France buys German cheese spread brand Brunch from Unilever

Soft drinks

US Sweet Leaf buys Tradewinds

April

Equipment

Alfa-Laval from Sweden buys Astepo aseptic technology business in Italy

€7m sales

Wine

US Hazlitt’s to buy Widmer Winery from Constellation

Beer

Turkey’s Anadolu Efes increases stake in Efes Breweries International from 73% to 99%

$287m

Packaging

Graham Packaging of US to buy Roots in China from PCCS of Malaysia

Bottled water

Japan’s Asahi to buy House Food water business

$57m

Soft drinks

China Haisheng to buy China juice business of Itochu from Japan

$10m

Soft drinks

Coca-Cola from US increases stake in Innocent of UK from 18% to 58%

£65m est

Cheese

Switzerland’s Emmi to buy Fromalp from Hochland of Germany

Soft drinks

France’s Terres du Sud and Co-op Garonne to buy Jus de Marmande

€15m sales

Soft drinks

Portugal’s Diviril and Melo Abreu to buy Sucol brand from Sumol + Compal

Soft drinks

US Mach One to buy White Hat

Beer

Singapore based Asia Pacific Breweries increases holding in Multi Bintang Indonesia to 81%

Dairy

Freedom Nutritional Products of Australia to merge with A2 of New Zealand

Soft drinks

US Full Motion buys Pure Water Solutions

Dairy

Ireland’s Glanbia Co-operative Society to buy Glanbia Irish dairy and agri businesses

€343m

Coffee

US Coffee Holding to buy assets of Organic Products Trading

$10m sales

Soft drinks

PepsiCo from US to buy remaining 58% shares in Serm Suk of Thailand through Strategic Beverage joint venture with local management

Bt4.5bn

Dairy

Ireland’s Arrabawn Co-op to buy Dawn Dairies liquid milk business in Galway

€5m

Dairy

R&R Ice Cream from UK to buy Rolland of France

Spirits

William Grant from UK buys spirits business from C&C of Ireland

€300m

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