1. Annual Deal Report 2012 – Foodservice
Deal activity in the Foodservice industry registered 1,015 transactions in 2012
Deal activity in the Foodservice industry registered 1,015 transactions in 2012. M&A transactions registered the
most deal activity, posting 589 transactions and representing 58% of the total deal volume. Equity offerings activity
accounted for 14.5% of the total deal volume. PE/VC and debt offering activities posted 145 and 60 transactions,
representing 14.3% and 5.9% of the total deal volume respectively. Strategic partnership activity recorded 74 deals
in the global foodservice industry, representing 7.3% of the total deal volume.
The total deal value registered in the global foodservice industry was US$50.7 billion in 2012. In terms of deal
value, debt offering transactions dominated other deal types, posting US$21.9 billion or 43.2% of total deal value.
M&A transactions represented 29.4% and PE/VC transactions represented 15.3% of the total deal value in 2012.
The equity offering transactions registered US$6.1 billion worth of deals, representing 12.1% of the year’s total deal
value.
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Figure 2: Quarterly Deal Volume by Deal Type, 2012
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The largest share of deals in the foodservice industry was undertaken with the objective of business expansion
through inorganic growth to increase the scale of businesses within the domestic market. This was the motive
behind 57.1% of all transactions recorded in 2012. Raising capital through equity offerings and debt offerings was
the objective behind 24.1% of the total transactions in the industry.
The Bank of America Merrill Lynch led the list of financial advisors with 20 transactions involving Foodservice
companies advised by the firm, followed by J.P. Morgan & Co.
On a monthly basis, deal value peaked in November, which recorded US$6.9 billion worth of deals, followed by
May with US$6.5 billion. October recorded the lowest deal value in the year.
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