45 ACQUISITIONS IN SEPTEMBER
Even more transactions were noted last month. 45 in total. 12 were in soft drinks, 7 in dairy, 7 in other food, 6 in ingredients and 5 in alcohol.
Among the 25 countries identified, the US dominated – accounting for 12 within its borders, 5 international purchases and 3 foreign sales. China, the Netherlands, Japan and Canada were the next most active.
Japan’s Asahi Breweries’ investment in Ting Hsin of China was the only deal to top $1 billion.
Sep |
Dairy |
Greece’s Vivartia buys 58% of Mevgal from two owner families |
€77m |
|
Packaging |
Owens-Illinois from US buys Companhia Industrial de Vidros in Brazil |
$603m |
|
Fruit juice |
Coca-Cola from US buys Nidan in Russia from Lion Capital of UK and company founders |
$450m est |
|
Coffee |
United Coffee from Netherlands buys Cafes Pivard in France |
|
|
Ingredients |
Norwegian Trygg Pharma joint venture between Aker BioMarine and US Lindsay Goldberg private equity firm to buy Epax omega-3 producer from Austevoll Seafood |
€71m |
|
Water coolers |
Australia’s Cool Clear Water point of use business absorbs WaterFirst |
|
|
Food |
Mexico’s MegaMex joint venture between Hormel and Herdez Del Fuerte to buy Don Miguel Foods |
|
|
Food |
Parcom Capital buys Dutch convenience food operations of Greencore from Ireland |
£28m sales |
|
Food |
US Sartori cheese producer buys Tellory dips business |
|
|
Water coolers |
US DS Waters buys AquaOne in home and office bottled water sector |
|
|
Fruit juice |
US Jamba Juice to buy 13 stores from Great Service Restaurants |
|
|
Packaging |
Crown Holdings to buy China and Vietnam aluminium beverage can joint venture interests from Swire Pacific |
$150m |
|
Fruit juice |
China’s Asian Citrus to buy 93% of Beihai Perfuming Garden Juice from two subsidiaries of BPG Food & Beverages Holdings |
|
|
Food |
Ireland’s CapVest and Origin Enterprises to form Valeo Foods Group and incorporate Batchelors |
€200m sales |
|
Packaging |
Ball Corporation from US increases stake by 10% to 60% in Latapack-Ball Embalagens of Brazil |
$360m sales |
|
Soft drinks |
Arca from Chile to buy 75% of Coca-Cola bottler Ecuador Bottling Company |
$320m |
|
Soft drinks |
US NutriPure Beverages to buy East Coast bottling plant |
|
|
Spirits |
India’s United Breweries to absorb Millennium Alcobev joint venture with Heineken |
|
|
Coffee |
Green Mountain from US to buy Van Houtte of Canada from Littlejohn private equity firm of US |
$890m |
|
Dairy |
Arla Foods from Sweden to buy stake in Westbury Dairies of United Kingdom from First Milk and Milk Link |
|
|
Food |
US TreeHouse Foods to buy ST Specialty Foods from Windjammer Capital Investors |
$180m |
|
Spirits |
India’s United Breweries to buy 54.7% of Pioneer Distilleries |
$16m |
|
Dairy |
Vinamilk from Vietnam to buy 19.3% stake in Miraka milk powder producer of New Zealand |
|
|
Soft drinks |
Lotte Chilsung from South Korea buys 34.4% stake in Pepsi-Cola Products Philippines |
$102m |
|
Spirits |
Campari from Italy buys 3 liqueur brands from William Grant of UK |
€129m |
|
Dairy |
Switzerland’s Emmi and MIBA to buy assets of former Regio Milch beider Basel |
CHF 2m |
|
Beer |
Molson Coors from Canada to take 51% stake in Molson Coors Si’hai Brewing Co of China in joint venture with Hebei Si’hai Beer |
$40m |
|
Ingredients |
DSM from Netherlands to buy Microbia of United States from Ironwood Pharmaceuticals |
|
|
Vending |
UK Snacktime to buy Vendia UK |
£11m |
|
Dairy |
UK Graham’s buys Claymore |
|
|
Fruit juice |
US Lifeway Foods buys assets of First Juice |
$1.7m |
|
Ingredients |
Adcuram to buy Citrique Belge of Belgium from DSM of Netherlands |
€100 m sales |
|
Beer |
Asahi from Japan to buy 10% of Ting Hsin of China |
$1.2bn |
|
Ingredients |
US Alltech to buy assets from Martek Biosciences |
$14m |
|
Packaging |
US Graham Packaging buys Liquid Container |
$568m |
|
Food |
Cargill from US to buy tomato sauce and paste business in Brazil from Unilever of Netherlands/UK |
|
|
Ingredients |
US Trilantic Capital Partners private equity firm to buy substantial minority stake in Fortitech |
|
|
Soy |
US Solbar completes purchase of Green Planet Farms plant |
$7.75m |
|
Dairy |
Japan’s Kirin Holdings to buy outstanding shares in Koiwai from Kirin Beverage |
|
|
Dairy |
Unilever from Netherlands/UK to buy ice cream brands and distribution network from Evga of Greece |
€32m sales |
|
Food |
Asahi from Japan to buy 6.54% stake in Ting Hsin of China |
$520m |
|
Soft drinks |
China’s Ting Hsin to buy 8% of Tingyi-Asahi joint venture from Asahi of Japan |
$520m |
|
Ingredients |
Xylitol Canada buys assets from Emerald Forest Sugar of US |
$1.0m |
|
Soft drinks |
Sun-Rype from Canada buys Yakama Juice of US |
$17m sales |
|
Soft drinks |
US NutriPure Beverages to buy Sun West Bottlers |
|
Comments(0)