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Date Sector Buyer Buyer Country Seller Seller Country Millions Comment
21.01.2011 Food Ranjit Singh Boparan United Kingdom Northern Foods United Kingdom £341 In place of Greecore merger
21.01.2011 Pizza Oetker Germany Simplot
21.01.2011 Soft drinks Rentas Libras and other investors Chile Coca-Cola United States 45.5% of Coca-Cola Embonor, increasing stake from 27% to 72%
24.01.2011 Ingredients Frutarom Israel British East Anglian Food Ingredients United Kingdom $4.8
24.01.2011 Packaging RockTenn United States Smurfit-Stone United States $3,500
24.01.2011 Soft drinks Kirin Japan China Resources Enterprise China $400 40% stake in new joint venture
24.01.2011 Spirits WS Karoulias Greece Berry Bros & Rudd United Kingdom Management buy out through IMA
25.01.2011 Dairy Milk Link United Kingdom Cornish Country Larder United Kingdom Cheese
25.01.2011 Food Intermediate Capital Group and Exponent (private equity) United Kingdom Premier Foods United Kingdom £205 Marlow Foods
25.01.2011 Bottled water Chaudhary Group Nepal Raybot Springs Nepal 51% stake
26.01.2011 Ingredients ICV Partners (private equity) United States JH Whitney United States Stauber Performance Ingredients
26.01.2011 Spirits Diageo United Kingdom VinaCapital (private equity) Vietnam £33 23.6% of Hanoi Liquor
27.01.2011 Fruit Fyffes United States Allerding family Germany £172 sales 33.3% stake in Van Wylick
28.01.2011 Ingredients Cargill United States Sorini Indonesia 85% stake - completion
31.01.2011 Ingredients Olam International Singapore Britannia United Kingdom £33.5
01.02.2011 Food CSM Netherlands Classic Cakes United Kingdom €11.4 sales
01.02.2011 Alcohol KEG 1 United States Centex United States $40 sales Distributor
01.02.2011 Wine Champ (private equity) Australia Constellation Brands United States A$290 Australia and Europe division, to be renamed Accolade Wines
02.02.2011 Fruit juice Yantai North Andre China Agrana Austria €6 50% of Yongji Andre (from 50% to 100%), completed 26.4.11
02.02.2011 Beer Molson Coors United States Sharp's United Kingdom £20
02.02.2011 Dairy Wimm-Bill-Dann Russia Opolie Russia
02.02.2011 Food Nestlé Switzerland CM&D Pharma United Kingdom
02.02.2011 Fruit juice Agrana Austria Yantai North Andre China €11.5 50% of Xianyang Andre (from 50% to 100%), completed 26.4.11
03.02.2011 Beer United Breweries India Pioneer Distilleries India $16 54.7% stake - completion
03.02.2011 Dairy Riverview United States Veblen United States Two dairies, renamed Marshall Dairy