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JANUARY 10, 2025

Food Venture Financing Trends - Rebel Foods, Wendy's India franchisee and cloud kitchen operator, announced that it raised $210 million in its Series G financing. By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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JANUARY 30, 2025

Food Venture Financing Trends - Ferrero announced that it plans to buy Power Crunch, a protein snacks brand, for an undisclosed sum. By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Food Venture Financing - Trends Lever VC announced that it completed a first close of $50 million for a new fund dedicated to early stage agrifoodtech startups. By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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JANUARY 17, 2025

Food Venture Financing Trends - Inari, a seed gene-editing company, raised $144 million in its Series G round. By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Food Venture Financing Trends - Formo, a fermentation startup that develops alternative cheeses, announced that it raised $61 million in its Series B round. By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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MARCH 28, 2025

Food Venture Financing Trends - Fresh Del Monte, a fresh fruit and vegetable grocer, is buying a majority stake in Avolio, positioning itself in the growing avocado oil market, which is expected to expand from $637 million to a $1.2 billion business by 2032. By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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OCTOBER 7, 2024

PepsiCo announced that it will acquire Siete Foods, a popular Mexican-American food brand, for $1.2 Mondelēz International’s corporate venture capital arm has announced that it purchased a minority stake in Urban Legend, a UK-based fresh doughnut and pastry business, for an undisclosed sum. By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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MARCH 10, 2025

based in Brazil, is one of the largest global food companies. This week's featured corporate venture and private equity fund is BRF S.A. - It has nearly 100,000 employees working out of 120 countries. By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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MARCH 3, 2025

Food Venture Financing Trends - Celsius has announced that it is purchasing Alani Nu, an energy drink brand, for $1.8 billion in cash and stock. By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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OCTOBER 20, 2023

Food Venture Financing Trends - Nongshim, a South Korean food and beverage company, announced that it is investing $7.4 million in developing foodtech startups and technologies. By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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OCTOBER 27, 2023

Food Venture Financing Trends - - Ferrara Candy announced that it plans to buy Jelly Belly Candy, the prominent jelly bean business, for an undisclosed amount. Tyson Foods announced that it plans to make a strategic minority investment in Protix, an insect protein startup company. By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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MARCH 21, 2025

Food Venture Financing Trends - PepsiCo announced that is plans to acquire Poppi, a prebiotic soda brand, for $1.95 billion, which includes $300 million in tax benefits. By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

The food industry is generally considered recession-resistant and less susceptible to economic downturns than other sectors, making it an attractive investment for private equity firms seeking stable returns.

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OCTOBER 2, 2023

M&A is proving popular with companies looking to reinvigorate their portfolios and adapt to shifting consumer demands - The North American food sector is experiencing a period of transition.

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TechCrunch: M&A

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

French grocery delivery startup La Belle Vie is acquiring Frichti, another food delivery service that was placed under court-ordered receivership. This is yet another chapter in the tumultuous story of quick commerce and food delivery […]

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 18, 2025

As indicated in its press release (decision not yet published), the Commission found that Delivery Hero and Glovo, two major food delivery companies in the European Economic Area. Another key element of the decision was its focus on the facilitation of the cartel through the use of a minority stake in a rival company.

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JULY 2, 2025

Del Monte Foods and numerous affiliates (“Del Monte”) filed voluntary petitions for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the District of New Jersey on July 1st (Case No. Del Monte is one of the country’s largest producers, distributors and marketers of branded food products including Del Monte, College Inn and Contadina.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Venture capital can be a vital source of funding and support for emerging companies in the healthy food and beverage space. In addition to providing capital, venture capitalists may offer strategic guidance, networking opportunities, and market expertise.

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Focus Investment Banking

DECEMBER 23, 2024

Like the broader market, the food and beverage industry had its challenges in 2024, from inflation impacting consumer spending to interest rates limiting growth and spending. Yet the food and beverage industry is nothing if not resilient and despite the years challenges, there were bright spots including dealmaking.

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The New York Times: Mergers, Acquisitions and Dive

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

In a Portland suburb, residents already know what deteriorating access to fresh food looks like. Federal regulators are trying to block Kroger’s merger with Albertsons.

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CNBC: Investing

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Warren Buffett, a renowned junk food lover, just bought into a pizza chain whose shares are trading near their cheapest level of the year.

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 2, 2023

Food Venture Financing Trends - DouxMatok, a foodtech company that develops sugar reduction products, announced that it raised $30 million in its Series C round. By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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Global Banking & Finance

JULY 3, 2023

Sainsbury’s says UK food inflation falling as sales rise By James Davey LONDON (Reuters) -Sainsbury’s, Britain’s second largest supermarket group, said on Tuesday food inflation was starting to fall as a return to volume growth helped power a 9.8% rise in quarterly underlying sales.

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JULY 14, 2023

Oritain, a forensic traceability business that tracks the origins of food and textile products, announced that it raised $57 million in its Series C round. a global meat producer, announced that it plans to go public in the US by listing shares on the NYSE. JBS also plans to go public on the São Paulo Stock Exchange in Brazil.

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Global Newswire by Notified: M&A

DECEMBER 26, 2023

(“IMCD” or “Company”), a global leading distribution partner, and formulator of speciality chemicals and ingredients, today announces that IMCD Colombia has signed an agreement to acquire the distribution business of Joli Foods S.A.S. Joli Foods”) to expand its food and nutrition business and product portfolio.

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Global Banking & Finance

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Carrefour sticks price warnings on food to shame suppliers By Dominique Vidalon PARIS (Reuters) – French supermarket chain Carrefour has slapped price warnings on products from Lindt chocolates to Lipton Ice Tea to pressure top consumer goods suppliers Nestle, PepsiCo and Unilever to reduce inflation ahead of much-anticipated contract talks.

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The Guardian: Mergers & Acquisitions

JULY 22, 2024

The problem is our monopolised food system. Think of it as a vast profit machine shaped like an hourglass, with many food producers at the top, millions of consumers at the bottom, and a few dominant firms – such as giant supermarkets or global food traders – clustered at its narrowing neck, siphoning a cut from the passing traffic.

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CNBC: Investing

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This food delivery stock could delivery as much as 30% upside from abating food inflation and a stronger market share, according to Mizuho.

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CNBC: Investing

JANUARY 19, 2025

"We believe renewed consumer attention on the role of processed foods in the public health crisis is just getting started," said TD Cowen's Robert Moskow.

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JD Supra: Mergers

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Keurig Dr Pepper announced that it plans to acquire GHOST, an energy drink brand, for $1 billion. Smucker will plan to sell its Voortman cookie business to Second Nature Brands for $305 million. By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Duckhorn Portfolio, a luxury wine company, announced that it was being acquired by Butterfly Equity, a Los Angeles-based private equity firm, for $1.95 billion in a cash transaction. Moët Hennessy, the luxury wine and spirits producer, announced a minority investment in French Bloom, a nonalcoholic sparkling wine brand.

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JUNE 10, 2025

These challenges include frozen capital markets, regulatory uncertainty at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and tariffs. As we previously discussed (here and here), the biotech mergers and acquisitions market currently faces significant headwinds. By: Paul Hastings LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 6, 2025

On June 2, 2025, the European Commission (EC) announced that it had fined food delivery companies Delivery Hero and Glovo a total of €329 million for participating in a cartel in the online food delivery sector in violation of Article 101(1) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The proposed final judgment requires Legends, a global venue services company providing food and beverage services in stadiums and other venues, to pay a $3.5 million penalty, as well as retain an antitrust compliance officer, By: Cooley LLP

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JD Supra: Mergers

JUNE 20, 2024

M&A in the agricultural sector received a boost in the first quarter of 2024. Deal value rose by more than 600 percent year on year from US$820 million in the first quarter of 2023 to US$5.87 billion in the first three months of this year. By: White & Case LLP

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JULY 7, 2025

Del Monte Foods files for bankruptcy and will search for buyer | CBSNews - Del Monte Foods, a nearly 140-year-old staple in canned produce, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and is seeking a buyer as part of a restructuring agreement with its lenders. By: Seward & Kissel LLP

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CNBC: Investing

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The firm upgraded the Singapore-based ride sharing and food delivery application developer to buy from hold

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