CASE STUDIES
Mergers & Acquisitions
- M&A
Dorset Village Bakery (Fudges)
Commercial and operational due diligence of Dorset Village Bakery, owner of the premium biscuit brand Thomas J Fudges (Fudges)
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- M&A
Continental Bakeries
Food Strategy Associates provided full Commercial and Operational due diligence leading to Goldman Sachs’ acquisition of Continental Bakeries, Europe’s leading Private Label biscuits supplier.
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- M&A
Commercial Vendor Due Diligence, Seabrooks Crisps
For Seabrooks Crisps we provided commercial vendor due diligence and subsequent operations and logistics due diligence to support a sale process
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Natural Balanced Foods (Nak’d)
UK Healthy Snacking Market Assessment and Commercial & Operational Due Diligence of Natural Balance Foods
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- M&A
Marlow Foods Ltd (Quorn)
Food Strategy Associates provided an assessment of the global meat-free market and an outside-in assessment of the Quorn business.
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- M&A
Operational Due Diligence of Genius gluten-free bread business
Food Strategy Associates provided operational due diligence for Verlinvest on Genius, a gluten-free bread business
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Hovis
Food Strategy Associates provided operational due diligence to The Gores Group in their acquisition of a majority stake in Hovis, the UK’s leading bread baker
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- M&A
Commercial Due Diligence – Salty Snacks
We provided commercial due diligence support for Verlinvest, a Belgian private equity company and major shareholder in PopChips to support their evaluation of Tyrrells, the UK premium potato crisp manufacturer.
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Burtons Biscuit Co.
We provided commercial and operational due diligence for a private equity bidder in the Burtons Biscuits sale process.
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Continental Foods (formerly Campbell Soup Europe)
Food Strategy Associates provided commercial and operational advice to CVC in their acquisition of Continental Foods from Campbell Soup Company
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- M&A
Disposal Project Management
Project-managed the disposal of the largest division of a public company. Acting for the CEO, led the preparation of VDD reports, data rooms and commercial due diligence reports, managed the process of buy-side Q&A, co-ordinated advisors.
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Outside-in look at Sharwood’s
Food Strategy Associates provided an outside-in view of Sharwood’s as a potential acquisition candidate
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