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11th January 2010 Mergers & Acquisitions

49 ACQUISITIONS IN NOVEMBER/DECEMBER

It’s difficult to keep up. The number of food and beverage transactions I’ve recorded in the past two months rose to 49.

13 were in the dairy industry, 12 in soft drinks, 10 in alcohol and 7 in other food sectors.

US companies were involved in 16 and French in 6, followed by Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland and UK on 5 each.

Japanese drinks companies were among the most active buyers, led by Suntory on 3. Switzerland’s Emmi and Nestlé made 5 purchases between them. New Zealand’s Fonterra bought 2 and sold 1. Britain’s Uniq and Holland’s FrieslandCampina sold 2 apiece.

Nov 09 Bottled water US Crystal Springs buys Cohutta Water
Bottled water Spain’s Importaco increases stake from 31% to 62% in Agua de Cortes
$213m
Packaging Ball Corporation from US to buy $90m outstanding 65% of Sansui beverage can joint venture from Guangdong Jianlibao of China
$90m
Ingredients Danisco from Denmark to buy Sorbial agricultural biotechnology business from Valleé of France
€1m sales
Food IFR Capital buys German and Polish businesses from Uniq of United Kingdom
£25.7m
Soft drinks Suntory from Japan completes purchase drinks of Orangina Schweppes based in France from Blackstone and Lion investment groups
€2.6 bn est
Fruit juice China’s Yantai North Andre Juice Co to increase stake from 30% to 40% in Andre Pectin
$3.6m
Food Gilde Equity Management of Benelux buys Netherlands businesses from Uniq of United Kingdom
€20m
Beverage

US Nestlé Professional to buy Vitality Foodservice from Goldner Hawn Private Equity

Bottled water UK Highland Spring to buy Greencore Water from Greencore of Ireland
£17.5m
Dairy Nestlé of Switzerland to buy Parmalat Brasil from Laep Investments
$59m
Ingredients Symrise from Germany to buy Futura Labs of Egypt and UAE
$15m sales
Dairy Arla from Sweden buys outstanding 25% of Arla Foods Fonterra UK joint venture from Fonterra of New Zealand
Food US World Finer Foods buys Liberty Richter from Royal Wessanen of Netherlands
$31m sales
Beverage Font Salem, part of Damm in Spain, to buy Santarem plant from Drink In of Portugal
€15.5m
Food

Taiwan’s Sinkung buys certain activities from McCain

Spirits India’s United Spirits buys Tern Distilleries
POU coolers Brita from Germany buys Waterhouse brands
$111m
Fruit juice China’s SkyPeople Fruit Juice buys juice Yingkou Trusty Fruits
$3.3m
Dairy Productos Lacteos Centroamericanos buys 51% of Parmalat Centroamerica from Parmalat of Italy
€25m sales
Food Philippines’ Top Frontier Investment Holdings buys 28% of San Miguel
$1.36bn
Cider C & C from Ireland to buy Gaymer United Kingdom from Constellation Brands of United States
£45m
Food US Brynwood Partners buys Balance Bar energy bar brand from Kraft Foods
Cider UK Aston Manor Brewery buys Devon Cider
Dairy France’s Alsace Lait buys Savoie Yaourt from Fruité
€15m sales
Dec 09 Coffee US Green Mountain buys Timothy’s Coffee
$157m
Dairy DeltaMilk from United States completes purchase of Bleskensgraaf cheese plant from FrieslandCampina of Netherlands
€140m sales
Fruit Eckes-Granini from Germany to buy
Juice Remaining 49% of joint venture with Damm in Spain
Wine France’s Vranken Pommery buys outstanding 45% of Listel
Beer CVC Capital Partners from United Kingdom completes purchase of central Europe operations from Anheuser-Busch InBev of Belgium
$2.2 - 3.0 bn
Dairy Agropur from Canada to buy Green Meadow Foods of United States
Soft drinks Suntory from Japan to buy Pepsi bottler Conway-Myrtle Beach of United States
$113m
Beer Heineken from Netherlands to buy Asia Pacific Breweries of India
€25m
Dairy Switzerland’s Emmi buys customer base of Kellenberger Frisch Service
Coffee US Green Mountain to buy Diedrich Coffee
$200m +
Drinks H Pixel International Trade from Israel to buy brands from Drinks Americas of United States
$0.15m
Soft drinks Kirin from Japan to buy extra 35% of Shanghai Jinjiang Kirin joint venture from Jinjiang International of China
$18m
Dairy Fonterra from New Zealand to buy remaining 51% of Saudi New Zealand Dairy Products Co joint venure from Saudi Dairy & Foodstuff Co
NZ$45m
Beer Sapporo from Japan to buy 65% of Vietnam National Tobacco joint venture from Carlsberg of Denmark and Vietnam National Tobacco
$25m
Dairy Danone from France to buy remaining 45% of Danone Clover joint venture from Clover of South Africa
$143m
Wine Suntory from Japan to buy 70% of importer ASC Fine Wines of China from Wine Holding of Austria
$88m sales
Cheese Emmi from Switzerland to buy 25% of packaging specialist Diprola in France
Cheese Emmi from Switzerland to take minority Stake in Venchiaredo of Italy
Bottled water US DS Waters buys OWaters
Beer Philippine’s San Miguel Brewery to buy international beer business from parent San Miguel Corp
$300m
Food Heinz from US buys remaining 49% of Cairo Food from Egypt
Soft drinks US Treehouse Foods to buy Sturm Foods Foods from HM Capital private equity firm
$660m
Dairy International Dairy and Juice joint venture between PepsiCo of US and Almarai of Saudi Arabia buys Beyti of Egypt from Almarai
Dairy DMV-Fonterra Excipients joint venture between Fonterra of New Zealand and Royal FrieslandCampina of Netherlands to buy FrieslandCampina Domo-Pharma from Royal FrieslandCampina
NZ$106m
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