Richard Hall is chairman of Zenith International. This is a personal blog and views expressed are his own.
Out of a record 563 food and drink transactions covered by the bevblog.net acquisitions database for 2014, another record of 35 involved sums over $1bn, 2.5 times the number in 2011.
The top 10 could hardly have been more diverse, spanning 13 countries and 10 different product sectors.
Their combined value was $68bn, compared with $97bn for the top 10 in 2013. The 35 over $1bn totalled $108bn, 19% below the 30 over $1bn in 2013, but 24% more than the 26 over $1bn in 2012.
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