Mergers & acquisitions
| Date | Sector | Buyer | Buyer Country | Seller | Seller Country | Millions | Comment |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10.02.2021 | Ingredients | Bain, Cinven | Various | Lonza | Switzerland | $4,700 | Speciality ingredients business |
| 24.08.2020 | Nutrition | Blackstone (private equity) | United States | Ancestry | United States | $4,700 | DNA Insights |
| 24.11.2014 | Packaging | Onex (private equity) | Canada | Rank | New Zealand | $4,660 | SIG Combibloc based in Switzerland |
| 20.08.2019 | Beer | CK Asset Holdings | Hong Kong (China) | Greene King | United Kingdom | £4,600 | |
| 09.08.2021 | Meat | Cargill, Continental Grain | United States | Sanderson Farms | United States | $4,530 | |
| 14.06.2011 | Packaging | Reynolds | New Zealand | Graham Packaging | United States | $4,500 | |
| 19.11.2021 | Tea | CVC (private equity) | United Kingdom | Unilever | United Kingdom | €4,500 | Ekaterra tea business |
| 03.10.2011 | Processing | Sealed Air | United States | Diversey | United States | $4,300 | Completed 3.10.11 |
| 05.03.2013 | Ingredients | Cargill, ConAgra | United States | CHS | United States | $4,300 sales | Formation of 44:44:12 Ardent Mills joint venture |
| 08.09.2011 | Packaging | International Paper | United States | Temple-Inland | United States | $4,300 | |
| 16.02.2021 | Water drinks | One Rock, Metropoulos (private equity) | United States | Nestlé | Switzerland | $4,300 | Nestlé Waters North America, completed 31.3.21 |
| 17.08.2012 | Beer | Heineken | Netherlands | Fraser & Neave | Singapore | $4,300 | Extra 39.7% of Asia Pacific Breweries |
| 18.07.2017 | Food | McCormick | United States | Reckitt Benckiser | United Kingdom | $4,200 | Food business, completed 21.8.17 |
| 18.03.2020 | Recycling | Planets UK Bidco | United Kingdom | Pennon | United Kingdom | £4,200 | Viridor |
| 25.04.2017 | Snacks | Tyson Foods | United States | AdvancePierre Foods | United States | $4,200 | |
| 19.04.2018 | Nutrition | Procter & Gamble | United States | Merck | Germany | $4,200 | Consumer health unit |
| 11.12.2019 | Ice cream | Froneri | United Kingdom | Nestlé | Switzerland | $4,000 | Ice cream business |
| 20.12.2017 | Packaging | Crown Holdings | United States | Carlyle (private equity) | United States | $3,900 | Signode in US |
| 15.08.2018 | Soft drinks | Constellation Brands | United States | Canopy Growth | Canada | $3,900 | Increase to 38% stake |
| 11.03.2020 | Soft drinks | PepsiCo | United States | Rockstar | United States | $3,850 | Completed 28.4.20 |
| 03.12.2018 | Hot drinks | Unilever | Various | GlaxoSmithKline | United Kingdom | $3,800 | Health Food Drinks portfolio |
| 07.05.2014 | Coffee | Joh A Benckiser | Germany | Mondelez International | United States | €3,800 | 56:44 joint venture Jacobs Douwe Egberts, completed 2.7.15 |
| 15.12.2020 | CBD | Tilray | Canada | Aphria | Canada | $3,800 | Combined value, 38:62 merger, completed 3.5.21 |
| 30.05.2012 | Ingredients | Marubeni | Japan | Gavilon | United States | $3,600 | |
| 21.04.2015 | Beer | China Resources Holdings | China | China Resources Enterprise | China | $3,600 | Non-beer activities |