No sign of a Brexit or uncertainty slowdown in food and drink industry transactions, with 55 recorded on the bevblog.net database for July.
By far the biggest was the $12.5 billion dairy sector acquisition of US-based WhiteWave by France’s Danone.
The next two were:
Within the 55 total, 11 were in soft drinks, ten in alcohol, seven in packaging, then four each in bakery, dairy, ingredients and services.
24 countries were involved. 27 were inside national borders – 14 in the United States and six in the United Kingdom. 28 were international – 11 involving the United States and ten involving the United Kingdom.
Overall, the United States featured in 25, the United Kingdom in 16, the Netherlands in six, then France and Italy in four each.
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