M&A

Food And Beverage M&A Activity In The UK Reaches Record Levels: Report

The food and beverage (F&B) sector in the UK reported a 50.8% year-on-year growth in merger and acquisition deals in 2021, to 89 transactions, accordin...

Food and Beverage M&A Deals Rose By More Than A Third In 2020

Despite the COVID crisis, the global food and beverage sector saw a 36.3% increase in the number of M&A deals in 2020, to a total value of $110 bil...

Campari Looking To Asia, US For Acquisitions, Chief Executive Says

Drinks group Campari is focused on the United States and Asia as it presses on with its acquisition strategy, and is also targeting premium brands, its chi...

South African Drinks Maker Distell Eyes Expansion

Growth-hungry South African drinks maker Distell is looking at both China and Latin America for further expansion, although the African continent - which b...

Merger, Acquisition Activity Booming In UK After Brexit Vote

Deal-making involving UK companies has picked up in the two years since the country's decision to leave the European Union, defying worries that Brexit wou...

Unilever's Big Move Looks A Lot Like Prep For Prime M&A: Gadfly

Forget Brexit. Unilever's decision to go Dutch is about giving itself advantages in M&A, whether bidder or target. The global consumer goods com...

Corrugated Packaging: Playing The M&A Game

The European corrugated packaging industry is seeing rapid M&A growth and shaping the Continent’s landscape. ESM speaks to Susan Hansen and N...

Blue Bottle Coffee Deal Shows Big Food's Gamble on Small M&A

Blue Bottle Coffee’s founder describes himself as “a slightly disaffected freelance musician and coffee lunatic, weary of the commercial coffee...

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