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November saw 48 food and drink transactions recorded on the bevblog.net mergers and acquisitions database, including four valued at over $500 million:
Of the 48 total, 11 were in soft drinks, nine in alcohol, six in packaging, four in bakery and three each in dairy and equipment.
26 were within national boundaries – 16 of them in the United States and six in the United Kingdom.
19 countries were involved overall, with the United States featuring in 29, the United Kingdom in 11, Italy in four, Ireland in three, Japan in three and the Netherlands in three.
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