All Mergers and acquisitions articles – Page 110
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Nomad Foods looks forward as Iglo deal completes
Nomad co-founder Noam Gottesman has said the completion of the €2.6bn acquisition of Birds Eye owner Iglo marks the start of ambitious investment group’s growth story.
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PomeGreat founder departs after second collapse in two years
The administration comes just a month after the LGA named Pomegreat as having more sugar per 100ml than a can of Coke
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LDC hungry for more food and drink investment from £1.2bn pot
Private equity house LDC has picked out the food and drink sector as a key area for investment after pledging £1.2bn of capital over three years to help accelerate growth among the UK’s mid-sized companies.
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Charles Wilson on Booker deal - 'The Budgens and Londis supply chain is underutilised'
The deal, if approved by the Competition & Markets Authority, will create a symbol group with 4,907 stores
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Reckitt Benckiser K-Y Jelly deal leads to more friction with competition watchdog
Durex owner Reckitt Benckiser’s attempt to acquire the K-Y Jelly brand is to come under more intense scrutiny from the UK’s deal watchdog as a result of concerns over higher prices for shoppers.
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Booker succeeds in £40m bid for Budgens and Londis
Londis currently has 1,630 convenience stores and sales of £504m in the year to December 2014, while Budgens has 167 convenience stores and supermarkets and sales of £329m.
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Wonderful Brands buys Pomegreat from administration
Wonderful Brands has purchased the assets of the Simply Great Juice Company from administration.
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Nutrisure stake taken by Lonsdale Capital Partners
Londsale said the new funds would help Nutrisure continue to grow by investing in its Naturya and Supernutrients brands
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Bright Food secures 40% remainder of Lion's Weetabix share
The remaining 40% stake has been bought up by Bright Food, with the intention - it is believed - of re-selling it to Hong Kong-based Baring Private Equity Asia
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SABMiller enters UK's growing craft beer sector with Meantime acquisition
SABMiller is entering the craft beer market with the purchase of London-based brewer Meantime.
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Metcalfe's Skinny demerger from Itsu triggers speculation
Metcalfe’s Skinny is to split from parent company Metcalfe’s Food on 1 June, The Grocer can reveal, with the parent company changing its name to Itsu Grocery
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TPG snaps up majority stake in Poundworld
US investment firm TPG has confirmed today it has bought a majority stake in UK fixed price discounter Poundworld.
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Delhaize and Ahold confirm merger talks
Belgian supermarket group Delhaize has confirmed this morning it is in merger talks with Dutch contemporary Ahold.
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Finsbury Food Group rescues Johnstone’s Just Desserts from administration
Finsbury Food Group is back on the acquisition trail after agreeing to rescue Johnstone’s Just Desserts from administration.
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Poundland to push ahead with 99p Stores takeover
Poundland has decided to press on with its attempt to acquire rival discount chain 99p Stores and go to a more in-depth investigation process by the UK’s Competition and Markets Authority.
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Bidvest 3663 buys Sandpiper CI's Cimandis foodservice division
Bidvest 3663 has acquired Cimandis, the foodservice division of Channel Islands operator Sandpiper CI…
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Price war set to drive M&A consolidation, warns Grant Thornton
UK M&A volumes held up in the first quarter of 2015, but deal values were significantly down as small-scale consolidation dominated the market.
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Analysis and Features
Nomad Foods sets sights on frozen empire in wake of Iglo deal
Findus tipped but there are many candidates ripe for netting
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Norbert Dentressangle bought up by XPO to create distribution giant
Norbert, a leading global provider of contract logistics, is a major supplier to the UK food and drink sector and has customers including Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury’s and Tesco
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Divine Chocolate merges its UK and US businesses
Divine Chocolate, the farmer-owned chocolate company, has merged its UK and USA businesses.