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11th October 2010 Mergers & Acquisitions

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

sales

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

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