52 acquisitions in September

September notched up 52 food and drink industry transactions on the bevblog.net mergers and acquisitions database.

3 involved sums greater than $1,000 million, 2 of them many times more:

• $66,000 million for Germany’s Bayer to buy US-based Monsanto with interests in agribusiness and ingredients.

• $9,900 million sales from the merger of Coca-Cola West and Coca-Cola East Japan to form Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan from April 2017.

• $1,090 million for Coca-Cola Femsa in Mexico to purchase fellow Coca-Cola bottler Vonpar in Brazil.

Among the 52 total, 11 were in alcohol, 8 in ingredients, 6 in packaging, 6 in soft drinks, 3 in confectionery and 3 in dairy.

21 were within national borders and 31 international. 26 featured the United States, 11 the United Kingdom, 6 France, 5 Switzerland, 4 Germany, 3 Australia, 3 Mexico and 3 the Netherlands.