Total consumer industry deals for March 2019 worth $11.72bn were announced globally, according to GlobalData’s deals database.
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The value marked a decrease of 20.6% over the previous month and a drop of 48.4% when compared with the last 12-month average of $22.69bn.
In terms of number of deals, the sector saw a rise of 14.1% over the last 12-month average with 445 deals against the average of 390 deals.
In value terms, Asia-Pacific led the activity with deals worth $5.06bn.
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By GlobalDataConsumer industry deals in March 2019: Top deals
The top five consumer deals accounted for 45.3% of the overall value during March 2019.
The combined value of the top five consumer deals stood at $5.3bn, against the overall value of $11.72bn recorded for the month. The top announced consumer deal tracked by GlobalData in March 2019 was Hyundai Motor Group, Microsoft, OppenheimerFunds, Ping An Capital, Booking Holdings, SoftBank Vision Fund, Toyota Motor and Yamaha Motor’s $1.46bn venture financing of GrabTaxi Holdings.
In second place was the $1.33bn private equity deal with Grange Hotels by Queensgate Investments and in third place was Ferrero International’s $1.3bn asset transaction with Kellogg.
The $628.08m acquisition of Hong Kong Express Airways by Cathay Pacific Airways and Hongkong Jingang Trade Holding Co’s acquisition of Westland Co-operative Dairy for $588m held fourth and fifth positions, respectively.
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.
