Total food industry cross border deals worth $631.2m were announced globally for September 2022, with the PAG Asia Capital’s $472m private equity deal with Patties Foods and Vesco Foods being the sector’s biggest investment, according to GlobalData’s deals database.
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The value marked a decrease of 73.3% over the previous month of $2.36bn and a drop of 37.5% when compared with the last 12-month average of $1.01bn.
In terms of number of cross border deals, the sector saw a drop of 6.67% with 28 deals in September 2022 when compared to the last 12-month average of 30 deals.
In value terms, Asia-Pacific led the activity with cross border deals worth $512.01m in September 2022.
Food industry cross border deals in September 2022: Top deals
The top five cross border deals accounted for 94.5% of the overall value during September 2022.
The combined value of the top five cross border deals stood at $596.22m, against the overall value of $631.2m recorded for the month.
The top five food industry cross border deals of September 2022 tracked by GlobalData were:
1) PAG Asia Capital’s $472m private equity deal with Patties Foods and Vesco Foods
2) The $71.7m venture financing of Planted Foods by ACE Ventures, Be8 Ventures Management, ETH Zurich Foundation, Gullspang Re:Food, Joyance Partners, L Catterton, Movendo Technology, Tengelmann Ventures, Vorwerk Ventures and Yann Sommer
3) Ahimsa VC, NPRT and Woody Harrelson’s $20m venture financing deal with Wicked Kitchen
4) The $17.52m asset transaction of Xinou and Yashili Dairy (Manashan) Trading by China, Arla Foods and Arla Foods Ingredients
5) British International Investment, Rainmatter Foundation and Venture Dairy’s $15m venture financing deal with Akshayakalpa Farms and FoodsLtd
Verdict deals analysis methodology
This analysis considers only announced and completed cross border deals from the GlobalData financial deals database and excludes all terminated and rumoured deals. Country and industry are defined according to the headquarters and dominant industry of the target firm. The term ‘acquisition’ refers to both completed deals and those in the bidding stage.
GlobalData tracks real-time data concerning all merger and acquisition, private equity/venture capital and asset transaction activity around the world from thousands of company websites and other reliable sources.
More in-depth reports and analysis on all reported deals are available for subscribers to GlobalData’s deals database.