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Date Sector Buyer Buyer Country Seller Seller Country Millions Comment
21.09.2011 Beer SABMiller United Kingdom Foster's Australia $10,200 Completed 16.12.11
28.03.2014 Sugar Cargill United States Copersucar Brazil $10,200 sales 50:50 sugar trade joint venture
20.05.2021 Plant-based IPO United States Oatly Sweden $10,000 $1,430m raised
30.09.2016 Soft drinks Coca-Cola West Japan Coca-Cola East Japan Japan $9,900 sales Merger to form Coca-Cola Bottlers Japan on 1.4.17
17.02.2021 Fresh produce Total Produce Ireland Dole United States $9,700 sales Increase from 45% to 82.5% stake
02.04.2018 Food delivery Alibaba China Ele.me China $9,500
03.07.2014 Food Tyson Foods United States Hillshire Brands United States $8,550
23.02.2021 Packaging Ardagh Luxembourg Gores, others United States $8,500 80:20 merger of metal packaging business
31.03.2021 Food delivery IPO United Kingdom Deliveroo United Kingdom £7,600 Online
25.10.2020 Soft drinks Coca-Cola European Partners United Kingdom Coca-Cola Amatil Australia $7,600
05.04.2017 Bakery JAB Holdings (private equity) Luxembourg Panera Bread United States $7,500
15.04.2013 Coffee Joh A Benckiser Germany DE Master Blenders 1753 Netherlands €7,500
15.06.2020 Food delivery Just Eat Takeaway.com Netherlands Grubhub United States $7,300
13.12.2016 Beer Asahi Japan Anheuser-Busch InBev Belgium €7,300 Former SABMiller operations in East Europe, completed 31.3.17
07.05.2018 Coffee Nestlé Switzerland Starbucks United States $7,150 Retail rights outside Starbucks, ready to drink
07.05.2018 Ingredients IFF United States Frutarom Israel $7,100 Completed 5.10.18
29.05.2013 Food Shuanghui International China Smithfield Foods United States $7,000
18.12.2019 Coffee Jacobs Douwe Egberts Netherlands Peet's Coffee & Tea United States €7,000 sales Merger to form JDE Peet's
24.02.2017 Dairy Morinaga & Co Japan Morinaga Milk Japan $6,970 sales
15.12.2017 Dairy Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (private equity) United States Unilever Various €6,825 Spreads business
26.11.2012 Food ConAgra United States Ralcorp United States $6,800 Completed 29.1.13
06.08.2018 Packaging Amcor Australia Bemis United States $6,800 Completed 11.6.19
19.02.2015 Packaging Ball United States Rexam United Kingdom €6,600 Completed 30.6.16
15.12.2011 Soft drinks Coca-Cola Femsa Mexico Grupo Fomento Queretano Mexico Pesos6,600 Beverage business, completed 7.5.12
12.05.2014 Frozen food Hillshire Brands United States Pinnacle Foods United States $6,600 Blackstone (private equity) down from 51% to 16% stake. Withdrawn 16.6.14