The record number of 536 acquisitions in the Food&Drink sector has been reached according to the specialised database bevblog.net.
“An average of 10 a week, far more than in 2013”, says Richard Hall, chairman of the specialised consulting firm Zenth International.
The largest number of deals was recorded in packaging, dairy products, food, beverages and ingredients.
At the global level, Coca Cola, Danone, Anheuser-Busch InBev and DS Services were the groups with the highest number of acquisitions in 2014, each with 6 or more transactions, out of a total of 909 companies involved in 75 countries. The United States and the United Kingdom were the most active in both sales as well as purchase transactions.
Italy was in fifth position among the seller countries, with 17 transactions, compared to 13 in 2013.
Source: bevblog.net
