India’s consumer industry saw a drop of 4.2% in overall deal activity during Q3 2020, when compared with the last four-quarter average, according to GlobalData’s deals database.
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A total of 68 deals worth $6.26bn were announced in Q3 2020, compared to the last four-quarter average of 71 deals.
Venture financing was the leading category in the quarter with 40 deals which accounted for 58.8% of all deals.
In second place was M&A with 19 deals, followed by private equity with nine transactions, respectively accounting for 27.9% and 13.2% of overall deal activity in the country’s consumer industry during the quarter.
In terms of value of deals, M&A was the leading deal category in India’s consumer industry with total deals worth $3.77bn, while private equity and venture financing deals totalled $2.34bn and $142.03m, respectively.
India consumer industry deals in Q3 2020: Top deals
The top five consumer deals accounted for 93.2% of the overall value during Q3 2020.
The combined value of the top five consumer deals stood at $5.83bn, against the overall value of $6.26bn recorded for the month.
The top five consumer industry deals of Q3 2020 tracked by GlobalData were:
1) Reliance Retail Ventures’ $3.33bn asset transaction with Future Group
2) The $1.02bn private equity deal with Reliance Retail Ventures by Silver Lake Partners
3) KKR &Inc’s $754.25m private equity deal with Reliance Retail Ventures
4) The $499.43m private equity deal with Reliance Retail Ventures by General Atlantic
5) API Holdings’ acquisition of Medlife International for $235m.
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.
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