Richard Hall is chairman of Zenith International. This is a personal blog and views expressed are his own.
January 2015 saw the same number of food and drink industry transactions recorded on the bevblog.net database as for January 2014 – a total of 47.
Last year, the first month focus was on alcohol. This year, it was packaging, with three deals involving sums over $1bn – all three in packaging:
Of the 47, as many as 11 were in packaging, with six in dairy, six in soft drinks, five in alcohol and four in bakery.
21 countries featured. The United States was active in 28, the United Kingdom in nine and France in seven, with all the rest on one or two. 26 took place entirely within national borders and 21 were cross-border deals.
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