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...spending boom is creating a merger wave in sectors as varied as banking, brewing and confectionery. Alongside the Dixons deal, the huge Belgian beer company InBev is finalizing the last pieces of a $730 million acquisition of Russian beer giant Sun Interbrew, and Coca-Cola recently agreed to buy Multon, Russia's second largest juice company, for an estimated $600 million. Excluding the energy sector, mergers and acquisitions of Russian firms soared to more than $8 billion last year from $4.8 billion in 2003, according to Thomson Financial. Yet even as Western firms rush to buy Russian, at the back...
...merger wave in sectors as varied as banking, brewing and confectionery. In just the past month, alongside the Dixons deal, the huge Belgian beer company InBev has been finalizing the last pieces of a $730 million acquisition of Russian beer giant Sun Interbrew, and Coca-Cola agreed to buy Multon, Russia's second largest juice company, for an estimated $600 million. Excluding the energy sector, mergers and acquisitions of Russian firms soared to more than $8 billion last year from $4.8 billion in 2003, according to Thomson Financial, which tracks worldwide M&A trends (see chart). Yet even as Western...
...Indeed, Coke's acquisition of Multon marks a deeper commitment to the Russian market, linked to the emergence of viable Russian consumer brands. Winterton says Coca-Cola thought about introducing its own juices in Russia, but decided to acquire Multon because the Russian firm was already well established, with strong local brands. "It's a very good business that would be hard to compete against," he says. The story is the same at Orkla, a $5 billion Norwegian consumer goods and chemicals conglomerate that last December bought a Russian confectionery company called SladCo for an undisclosed amount. SladCo's revenues...
...Thirst To Acquire Coca-Cola and its Greek bottling unit bought Multon, the second-largest juice company in Russia. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but analysts valued the purchase at about $650 million...
GLOBE THEATRE. - Clara Morris in "Miss Multon...