The biggest was Suntory’s €2.6bn deal to buy Orangina Schweppes. The other main story was Anheuser-Busch InBev’s disposal of its central European operations to private equity firm CVC Capital Partners for $2.2-3.0bn.
26 countries were involved, with France being the most active. 14 were single country affairs.
Source: BevBlog
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