Financial Deal Insights Consumer Markets Q3 09

Introduction

This report contains extensive qualitative and quantitative analysis of the Q3 2009 deal activity (including strategic alliances) in the packaged food, alcoholic & non-alcoholic beverages, personal care, household products, pet care, and tobacco sectors across global markets, with a specific focus on key emerging markets. It offers insights into deal activity, deal rationale, and valuation trends.

Scope

*Analysis of Q3 2009 trends through analyst opinion on key deals (PDF brief), with a specific focus on PE deals

*Insights into deal activity across M&A, private equity, private placement, IPO, secondary offering, and strategic alliance deals

*Insights across key sectors, namely packaged food, alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, personal care, household products, pet care, and tobacco

*Detailed analysis of the deal activity during the quarter

Highlights

In the midst of the global economic slowdown there have been few major acquisitions in Q3 2009, in which a handful of industry majors with healthy cash reserves acquired global brands. These deals offered various medium to long term strategic benefits to the acquirers.

Unilever made an offer to Sara Lee Corporation in order to acquire its global body care and European detergents business. The porposal is seen as a strategic move from Unilever, providing it with multiple benefits, which include a complementary match to its existing brands and strengthening its European market position.

Suntory acquired the Orangina Schweppes Group to diversify from its stagnant home market and gain a foothold in Europe.

Reasons to Purchase

*Understand which consumer sectors are experiencing the most activity, and which type of investor, and advisor are playing the significant roles

*Find out how key deals are changing the competitive landscape of your business

*Find out how companies in consumer markets are raising funds through capital markets, private equity, and private placement deals