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Date Sector Buyer Buyer Country Seller Seller Country Millions Comment
30.12.2010 Dairy Wimm-Bill-Dann Russia Kungur Dairy Plant Russia
31.12.2010 Tea Harris Tea United States Keith Spicer United Kingdom £20 sales
31.12.2010 Bottled water SABMiller United Kingdom Crown Foods Kenya
31.12.2010 Packaging Chamonix (private equity) United Kingdom Linpac United Kingdom 5 business units
03.01.2011 Bottled water Coop Schweiz Switzerland Pearlwater Switzerland
03.01.2011 Beer Frankfurter Brauhaus Germany Carlsberg Denmark Dresden brewery
05.01.2011 Tea Madhu Jayanti India Keith Spicer United Kingdom
06.01.2011 Dairy Schreiber Foods United States Dean Foods United States Private label yogurt operations
06.01.2011 Dairy Arla Denmark Boxholm Sweden
07.01.2011 Beer Beijing Yanjing China Jinchuan China $23 96% stake
07.01.2011 Dairy Etika Malaysia Susu Lembu Asli Malaysia $37
11.01.2011 Food Former directors backed by RCapital (private equity) United Kingdom Westler Foods United Kingdom Out of administration
12.01.2011 Spirits Bright Food Group China Shui Jing Fang China $7.1 40% of Quan Xing Jiu Ye
12.01.2011 Beer Beer Barons Canada King Brewery Canada
12.01.2011 Beer Heineken Netherlands Sona Nigeria 5 breweries
13.01.2011 Beer SABMiller and China Resources Enterprise through joint venture China Resources Snow Breweries China Aoke Beer China
13.01.2011 Ingredients Range of investors PAI Partners (private equity) France $525 est 18.2% of Chr Hansen from Denmark
14.01.2011 Food Kerry Ireland Headland Foods United Kingdom Ready meals, completion
14.01.2011 Ingredients Lactalis France Ebro Foods Spain €8.3 29.9% of Biosearch
17.01.2011 Soft drinks Refresco Netherlands Trilantic Capital Partners (private equity) €170 sales 100% of Spumador in Italy
17.01.2011 Wine AdVini France Reutenauer Vins du Sud Ouest France €15 sales
18.01.2011 Beer Carlsberg Denmark Olivaria Belarus 21% (from 47% to 68%)
19.01.2011 Dairy Glanbia Ireland Kerry Ireland €10 est Dawn Dairies liquid milk business
19.01.2011 Ingredients Glanbia Ireland BSN United States $144
19.01.2011 Packaging Ball United States Aerocan Completion