China’s consumer industry saw a rise of 42.6% in overall deal activity during Q4 2020, when compared with the last four-quarter average, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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A total of 174 deals worth $7.28bn were announced in Q4 2020, compared to the last four-quarter average of 122 deals.

Venture financing was the leading category in the quarter with 106 deals which accounted for 60.9% of all deals.

In second place was M&A with 64 deals, followed by private equity with four transactions, respectively accounting for 36.8% and 2.3% of overall deal activity in the country’s consumer industry during the quarter.

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In terms of value of deals, M&A was the leading deal category in China’s consumer industry with total deals worth $5.12bn, while private equity and venture financing deals totalled $1.96bn and $200m, respectively.

China consumer industry deals in Q4 2020: Top deals

The top five consumer deals accounted for 53.1% of the overall value during Q4 2020.

The combined value of the top five consumer deals stood at $3.86bn, against the overall value of $7.28bn recorded for the quarter.

The top five consumer industry deals of Q4 2020 tracked by GlobalData were:

1) Indigo GlamourLimited’s $2.16bn acquisition of CAR

2) The $520.4m acquisition of Rock Square HoldCo by CapitaLand Retail China Trust Management

3) Inner Mongolia Mengniu Dairy (Group)Limited’s $458.1m acquisition of Shanghai Milkground Food TechLimited

4) The $412.78m venture financing of Beijing DMall E-commerce by Chengtong Fund Management, Futian Capital, Hengan International Group, Industrial Bank and Lenovo Ventures Group

5) C&D Xinxing Investment, China State-owned Enterprise Structural Adjustment Fund, GLP Fund, Jingwei China, Legend Capital, Tencent Holdings, Tiger Fund, Tongchuang Weiye, Yuansheng Capital, Yunfeng Fund L.P and Zhong Ding Capital’s venture financing of Qingdao Zhenkun Trading for $315m.

Verdict deals analysis methodology

This analysis considers only announced and completed 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.