A2 Corporation to expand its operations into the UK and Ireland
17 November, 2011A2C has entered into agreements to establish a sales and marketing joint venture in association with leading UK dairy company Robert Wiseman Dairies PLC.
SPX to acquire extraction, evaporation, vacuum and freeze-drying company
28 October, 2011SPX Corporation is expanding its food and beverage capabilities with the acquisition of e&e Verfahrenstechnik GmbH, a leading supplier of extraction, evaporation, vacuum and freeze-drying technologies to the global food and beverage, pharmaceutical and bioenergy industries.
SEW-Eurodrive expands
27 October, 2011SEW-Eurodrive has acquired a new building to house its Industrial Gears division.
Kerry Group acquires Cargill
05 October, 2011Kerry Group confirms agreement to acquire Cargill’s global flavours business.
Lawson Software acquires Approva
09 September, 2011Lawson Software has acquired Approva, a company that provides CCM software.
Kraft to split into a global snacks company and a North American grocery business
08 August, 2011Kraft Foods has announced that its intends to create two independent public companies: a high-growth global snacks business with estimated revenue of approximately $32 billion and a high-margin North American grocery business with estimated revenue of approximately $16 billion. The company expects to create these companies through a tax-free spin-off of the North American grocery business to Kraft Foods shareholders.
RFG acquires Evolution Coffee Roasters Group
01 August, 2011Retail Food Group Limited has acquired New Zealand's Evolution Coffee Roasters Group.
O-I to acquire VDL
28 July, 2011Owens-Illinois has announced the acquisition of VDL Company, a single-furnace glass container plant in Vergèze, France.
OHM joins Boge distributor team
28 July, 2011OHM has been appointed as a distributor of the Boge range.
Infor and Golden Gate Capital acquire Lawson Software
08 July, 2011GGC Software Holdings and Infor have completed their acquisition of Lawson Software.
Bolzoni Auramo to acquire Eurolift
25 May, 2011Bolzoni Auramo has acquired Eurolift in an effort to expand into the Australian market.
Adept Electronic and Total Turnkey merger
18 May, 2011The merger of Adept Electronic Solutions and Total Turnkey Solutions will create a leading machine vision industrial company, with a complementary portfolio of products, advanced technologies and enhanced growth opportunities.
Plasdene Glass‐Pak acquires J.McCarthy Packaging
05 May, 2011National rigid packaging supplier Plasdene Glass-Pak reached agreement to acquire the bottle distribution business of J.McCarthy, effective 29 April 2011.
Macadamia Processing Company joins up with Consolidated Nuts
12 April, 2011The Macadamia Processing Company has joined up with Consolidated Nuts, and the two have set up a new marketing company to market the output from both plants.
Mettler-Toledo acquires Smiths Detection Product Inspection division
12 April, 2011Mettler-Toledo has acquired the Smiths Detection Product Inspection division and will adopt the Eagle brand of food X-ray inspection systems, while the Eagle business will continue to operate as a separate entity.
