Richard Hall is chairman of Zenith International. This is a personal blog and views expressed are his own.
43 food and drink industry transactions were recorded on the bevblog.net mergers and acquisitions database for March. One was huge and most of the rest were quite small.
The giant deal was the $40bn purchase of Kraft by 3G and Berkshire Hathaway to merge it with Heinz.
The next biggest was the $800m US packaging purchase of Citadel Plastics by A Schulman.
Of the 43 total, ten transactions were in alcohol, nine in soft drinks, six in packaging and three in dairy.
29 countries featured overall, with the United States involved in 20, followed by the United Kingdom on ten. Switzerland made four sales and France three sales. Australia and Ireland each made three purchases.
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