481 food and drink acquisitions in 2013
Click on the bevblog.net acquisitions database and you’ll find details of 481 food and drink industry transactions in 2013, an average of 40 per month.
This compares with 520 in 2012, so less in number, but many were much larger in value. The total for 2011 was 466.
In terms of market segments, the highest number of deals were in :
| Rank | Sector |
2012 |
2013 |
| 1 | Dairy |
50 |
64 |
| 2 | Ingredients |
63 |
49 |
| 3 | General food |
46 |
47 |
| 4 | Wine |
35 |
38 |
| 5 | Packaging |
72 |
36 |
| 6 | Spirits |
23 |
36 |
| 7 | Soft drinks |
44 |
35 |
| 8 | Beer |
28 |
24 |
| 9 | Equipment |
20 |
17 |
| 10 | Bottled water |
8 |
16 |
| 11= | Nutrition |
12 |
14 |
| Meat |
6 |
14 |
|
| 13 | Fruit juice |
9 |
13 |
| 14 | Water coolers |
22 |
12 |
| 15 | Snacks |
13 |
9 |
The biggest changes were the drop in transactions for packaging (-36) and ingredients (-14), compared with substantial increases for dairy (+14) and spirits (+13).
Water cooler acquisitions were down from 22 to 12, while bottled water deals rose from 8 to 16.
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