Two enormous deals topped the list of 52 food and drink transactions recorded on the bevblog.net mergers and acquisitions database for October.
Since its announcement on 13 October, there have been daily updates and debates on the $104bn brewing bid by Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev for UK-based SABMiller and the impact is likely to reverberate in various subsequent divestments.
There was also a $6bn sales revenue merger agreed between US alcohol distributors The Charmer Sunbelt Group and Wirtz Beverage Group to become Breakthru Beverage Group.
Of the 52 total, 11 were in alcohol, eight in soft drinks, six in ingredients, four in dairy and three each in nutrition and packaging.
21 were inside national borders, 31 international. 20 involved the United States, 12 the United Kingdom, six Ireland, four Italy and the Netherlands, and three each for Australia, Canada, France, Germany and Spain.
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