Consumer sector activity covers retail, consumer goods, food & beverage, and hospitality. Shifting consumer preferences and digital commerce drive both strategic and sponsor-led transactions.
TDR Capital has been lined up as preferred bidder for Costa Coffee in a deal pitched around EUR 1.6 billion, but price negotiations with Coca-Cola have reportedly stalled. The widening value gap versus Coca-Cola’s 2018 entry frames an against-trend moment for branded consumer assets.
Dutch specialty coffee brand Wakuli has raised EUR 5 million from ECBF and Rabobank to expand its regenerative supply chain and retail footprint. The round brings total funding to EUR 9.25 million.
South Africa's Mr Price is acquiring German discount retailer NKD from TDR Capital for EUR 487 million, a step-change move into European value retail.
Ball Corporation will acquire an 80% stake in Belgium-based Benepack for about EUR 184 million, adding plants in Belgium and Hungary as it pushes deeper into recyclable aluminum beverage packaging.