Opinion
35 acquisitions in May/June
11 were in beer, nine in dairy, four in soft drinks, three in spirits and three in ingredients. The US featured in 13, UK eight, China five and Denmark three. Most were across borders. Almost every major economy was affected, but not Russia this time.
Three were Anheuser-Busch InBev divestments and three more were disposals by Dairy Farmers of Britain.
April 2009
- Sugar – Associated British Foods from the UK completes purchase of Azucarera Ebro in Spain.
May 2009
- Beer – Asahi from Japan completes purchase of 19.9% stake in Tsingtao of China from Anheuser-Busch InBev for $667m.
- Foodservice – Canada’s MTY Food Group completes purchase of Country Style Food Services for C$16m.
- Beer – Kohlberg Kravis Roberts from the US buys Oriental Brewery of Korea from Anheuser-Busch InBev for $1.8bn.
- Beer – China’s Chen Fashu buys 7% stake in Tsingtao from Anheuser-Busch InBev for $235m.
- Bottled water – Romanian businessman loan Balan buys Bere Mures mineral water division from Heineken Romania.
- Dairy – Lala from Mexico buys National Dairy in US from Dairy Farmers of America.
- Beer – SABMiller from the UK to buy remaining 28% of Kompania Piwowarska in Poland for $1.1bn.
- Beer – Asia Pacific Breweries joint venture between Heineken and Fraser & Neave buys remaining 33% of APB Pearl in India from Jaipuria for $4m.
- Dairy – Parmalat from Italy to buy some National Foods dairy assets in Australia from Kirin of Japan for A$70m.
- Soft drinks – UK Aimia Foods buys Spring Cool Soft Drinks from Novbev (£3m sales).
- Dairy – UK Meadow Foods buys Nene Valley Foods from Dairy Farmers of Britain.
- Spirits – Campari from Italy completes purchase of Wild Turkey in US from Pernod Ricard of France for $581m.
- Beer – UK Molson Coors buys 50.1% of Cobra for £14m.
June 2009
- Beer – Poland’s Van Pur completes purchase of Koszalin brewery from Royal Unibrew of Denmark for DKK 35m.
- Ingredients – Barry Callebaut Sweden to buy Eurogran of Denmark from MISP Holding of Denmark (€28m sales).
- Ingredients – US Sensory Effects buys emulsified powder business from Associated British Foods of UK.
- Dairy – UK Milk Link to buy Llandyrnog creamery from Dairy Farmers of Britain.
- Dairy – UK Lactalis to buy Lubborn creamery from Dairy Farmers of Britain.
- Dairy – US PepsiCo and Saudi Almarai joint venture International Dairy and Juice buys 75% of Jordan’s Teeba from Almarai.
- Meat – Brazil’s Sadia and Perdigão to merge and form Brasil Foods.
- Beer – China’s Tsingtao to buy Jinan Beer for $37m.
- Beer – Norwegian investors to buy 80% of Arendal brewery from Carlsberg.
- Beverages – China’s Andre Juice and Uni-President form joint venture, ¥200m.
- Dairy – US Kohlberg Kravis Roberts takes significant minority in China’s Modern Dairy.
- Soya – Dean Foods from US to buy Alpro from Vandemoortele of Belgium for €325m.
- Flavours – Frutarom from Israel to buy Savory Functional Systems in Germany from Chr Hansen of Denmark for $7m.
- Spirits – US Fortune Brands buys Effen vodka brand produced in Netherlands from Sazerac ($10m sales).
- Spirits – US Sazerac buys Old Taylor whisky brand from Fortune Brands.
- Fruit juice – US Sunny Delight owner Beverage Holdings buys superfruit assets of Bossa Nova.
- Dairy – Saputo from Canada to buy F&A Dairy activities in US ($140m sales).
- Beer – Heineken to merge Kralovsky brewery with Drinks Union subsidiary in Czech Republic.
- Beer – Germany’s Oettinger to buy Braunschweig brewery from Carlsberg Deutschland.
- Dairy – Belgium’s Inza to buy Yogho! Yogho! and Choco! Choco! European brand rights from Netherlands’ FrieslandCampina.
- Packaging – Crown from US buys beverage can production facility from Interfood in Vietnam.
Source: BevBlog
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Richard Hall is chairman of Zenith International.
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