Articles Tagged with ''mergers and acquisitions''

Snyder’s-Lance, Inc. has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Diamond Foods, Inc. for approximately $1.91 billion.

The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights will hold a hearing on Anheuser-Busch InBev’s proposed plan to purchase SABMiller in a deal worth more than $103 billion.

Olam International Limited, a leading agri-business operating across the value chain in 65 countries, has completed the acquisition of ADM’s worldwide cocoa business at an enterprise value on a cash free and debt free basis of $1.2 billion.

Australian-based Treasury Wine Estates has agreed to acquire the majority of U.S. and UK wine operations from Diageo for $600 million.

Post Holdings, Inc. announced this week it has agreed to acquire the Northwestern U.S. egg company Willamette Egg Farms, LLC.

Process and packaging technology supplier Bosch Packaging Technology announced plans to acquire the Georgia-based Kliklok-Woodman Corporation, a manufacturer of packaging machinery for the food industry.

The world’s largest brewing company Anheuser-Busch InBev NV announced Wednesday it is considering a takeover of rival SABMiller plc and has approached the company about this possibility. No bid or offer has been made.

MilllerCoors, a joint venture between beverage companies SABMiller and Molson Coors Brewing Company, said it will close its Eden, N.C. brewery in September of next year.

As a strategic move toward increasing its presence in a growing African market, the Kellogg Company announced a new, long-term partnership with food company Tolaram Africa.

 Flowers Foods—whose current brands include Wonder and Nature’s Own—is expected to spend more than $400 million in just one month on organic acquisitions.