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9th March 2010 Mergers & Acquisitions

36 ACQUISITIONS RECORDED IN JANUARY/FEBRUARY

2010 opened with a succession of huge food and drink transactions. Hot on the heels of Kraft buying Cadbury for £11.9 billion came Coca-Cola acquiring the North American operations of Coca-Cola Enterprises for $12.6 billion and PepsiCo completing the purchase of its top two bottlers. That wasn’t all. Nestlé bought Kraft’s frozen pizza business for $3.7 billion, Heineken targeted Femsa in a €3.8 billion deal and Entremont agreed to merge with Sodiaal. 12 of the 36 deals recorded for January and February were in soft drinks, of which 6 were water, 9 were in alcohol, of which 5 were beer, and 8 were in dairy. More than 25 countries were involved, the most active being the United States, France, United Kingdom and China.
Jan 10 Soft drinks China Marine buys 80% of Shishi Xianghe in China $27.8m
Hot drinks Italy’s Lavazza buys Ercom 25m euro sales
Beer Damm from Spain buys former Drink In factory in Portugal €15.5m
Water coolers Eden Springs from Israel buys Hydropure of UK
Food Nestlé from Switzerland to buy Kraft frozen pizza business in US and Canada $3.7bn
Fruit Juice Saudi Arabia’s Jadwa investment fund buys substantial stake in Gulf Union Foods Company
Beer Philippines’ San Miguel to buy 49% of Top Frontier
Dairy Fonterra of New Zealand to buy 51% of Saudi New Zealand Dairy Products Co from Saudi Dairy & Foodstuff Co $33m
Beer Heineken from Netherlands to buy Femsa of Mexico, with Femsa gaining 20% stake in Heineken 3.8bn euro
Food Mizkan from Japan buys World Harbors Sauces of US 4.5bn euro
Dairy France’s Entremont to merge with Sodiaal sales 9m euro
Dairy Wexford Milk Producers of Ireland to buy 50% of Wexford Creamery from Dairy Crest of UK, increasing stake to 70%
Confectionery Kraft from US to buy Cadbury of UK £11.9bn
Soft drinks UK Nichols buys Ben Shaws dispense business from Sunnyland of Belgium
Bottled water France’s Crédit Agricole bank buys over 100m euro33% of St Amand sales
Flavours Kohlberg Kravis Roberts private equity firm from US buys significant minority in Rudolf Wild of Germany
Cheese Four dairy co-operatives in Northeastern France to merge
Cider US Crispin Cider buys Fox Barrel Cider
Feb 10 Dairy UK Arla Foods and North Milk Co-operative to sell Claymore Dairies to management team
Cheese Lactalis from France buys Forlasa of Spain
Soft drinks US Pepsi Bottling Group to buy Pepsi-Cola Bottling of Yuba City
Ice cream Swedish businessman Anders Müntzing to buy Diplom-Is of Sweden from Tine of Norway
Water filtration US Catterton private equity firm buys Sun Water Systems
Bottled water Nestlé from Switzerland buys 70% stake in Yunnan Dashan of China
Confectionery Raisio from Finland to buy Glisten in United Kingdom £19.8m
Dairy China’s Rodobo completes purchase of three Beixue dairies
Beer Asia Pacific Breweries completes purchase of 68% interest in Multi Bintang Indonesia and 87% interest in Grande Brasserie de Nouvelle Caledonie from Heineken of Netherlands
Beer Heineken from Netherlands completes purchase of two Indian operations and Bintang brand from Asia Pacific Breweries
Malt Axéréal from France buys malt business from Greencore of Ireland 116m euro
Bottled water SABMiller from South Africa buys Rwenzori of Uganda
Spirits Mosaiq from Canada to buy Lemon Hart brand nights from Pernod Ricard of France
Wine/spirits Altia to buy Danish and Swedish brands and facilities from Pernod Ricard of France 82m euro
Bottled water US DS Waters buys Yosemite Waters
Soft drinks Coca-Cola Enterprises to buy Norway and Sweden operations of Coca-Cola Company $822m
Soft drinks US Coca-Cola Company to buy North American operations of Coca-Cola Enterprises $12.6bn
Spirits Diageo from UK to increase stake from 49% to 53% of Quanxing in China $21m
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