Mergers & Acquisitions

Merger and acquisitions continue to transform the beverage list year after year, but growth remains steady for the majority. Look back at how the major beverage leaders grew market share in 2011.

Last year, Stanley Black & Decker proved to be the runaway hit with greater than 100 percent growth. This year, the playing field has evened out.

Dean Foods will use substantially all of the net proceeds from the sale of Morningstar to significantly reduce outstanding debt, resulting in a stronger balance sheet and increased flexibility to execute against our strategies for our core dairy business.

The retirement of the Executive Vice President and President, Developing Markets, sparks an effort to streamline the company's operating unit structure given the size and importance of Developing Markets to future growth.

The Coca-Cola Company and Select Milk Producers, Inc. will acquire equity stakes in the newly-created Fair Oaks Farms Brands, LLC to drive growth and expansion of Core Power and to create an innovative portfolio of brands and products that feature the value-added nutrition of dairy.

With this acquisition, the company's brands will generate approximately $13 billion in retail sales globally, with more than $2.5 billion attributable to the company's portfolio of athletic brands.

The integration process of Pfizer Nutrition into Nestle Nutrition, that will see approximately 4,500 employees of Pfizer Nutrition join the Nestle Group, is underway.

A new licensing arrangement will support the company's mobile initiatives and help it to stay on top of emerging technologies popular with consumers.