Beyond Meat has closed a new financing round led by Cleveland Avenue, a venture capital firm founded by Don Thompson, former CEO of McDonald’s Corporation. “We see Beyond Meat as a strategic and compelling consumer-focused ...
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Agribusiness giant Cargill has agreed to merge its fresh chicken business in the UK with Faccenda Foods’ fresh chicken, turkey and duck operations to create a new food firm. The parties will establish a fresh poultry joint venture ...
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US-based private equity firm L Catterton has offered to buy 27.9% stake in Scottish craft brewery Innis & Gunn for £15m. Founded in 2003, Innis & Gunn claims to have risen to the second position for a craft brewer in the UK ...
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Feilo Sylvania, a lighting vendor owned by China-based Shanghai Feilo Acoustics, has announced its entry into the Taiwan market by launching LED light tubes, bulbs and streetlamps. Shanghai Feilo Acoustics acquired an 80% stake in ...
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Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) is merging its operations in Russia and Ukraine with Turkey's brewer, Anadolu Efes. The companies plan to merge their businesses in a 50-50 merger and create a new company to be known as AB InBev-Efes. ...
Starbucks has agreed to acquire the remaining stake of 50% in East China joint venture (East China JV) from Uni-President Enterprises Corporation (UPEC) and President Chain Store Corporation (PCSC). Starbucks will pay $1.3bn in cash and ...
Ardian has divested its stake in Germany-based food company frostkrone for an undisclosed sum to Emeram Capital Partners. frostkrone, which was established in 1997, manufactures frozen finger food and snack products in Europe. The ...
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China Mengniu Dairy has agreed to acquire China Modern Dairy (CMD) for HK$6.4bn ($826m) to consolidate its position in the high-end dairy products sector. As part of the deal, China Mengniu will buy 965.47 million shares in CMD from a ...
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China plans to launch a countrywide cable television network by integrating existing listed local networks into one public company by the end of 2020, said a government circular posted online on Friday. In response, stocks of six A-share ...
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Packaging firm Essel Propack has acquired remaining 75.1% stake in its German joint venture Essel Deutschland (EDG) for $32m. As part of the agreement, Essel’s Mauritius subsidiary Lamitube Technologies (LTL) will increase its stake ...
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Mondelez International has bought the remaining 20% stake in Vietnamese food company Kinh Do’s snack unit for VND 2tn ($90m) as part of its expansion strategy in emerging markets. In November 2014, Mondelez had agreed to buy 80% of ...
Spanish Ebro Foods has acquired a controlling stake in flour producer and retailer Santa Rita Harinas for €4.8m ($5.34m). In a statement to Spain’s National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), Ebro said that it has bought 52% ...
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The landscape of the global OEM AIO (all-in-one) PC market will undergo a dramatic change in 2016 as number-two maker TPV-Inventa Technology begins making its gradual exit from the segment, according to Digitimes Research. Asia Vital ...
Vietnamese dairy company Vinamilk has fully acquired US-based Driftwood Dairy by buying the remaining 30% stake for $3m. The acquisition comes more than two years after the company bought 70% stake in the US company for $7m. Driftwood ...
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Flavored beverages producer Dr Pepper Snapple Group (DPS) has purchased an additional stake in BA Sports Nutrition, makers of premium sports drinks line Bodyarmor. The firm has invested an additional $6m to increase its stake from the ...
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