Mergers and Acquisitions

It was not long before Dewey’s Bakery and Farm & Oven Snacks figured out that they had something much bigger if they merged. Here, we ask the newly formed partners five questions for integrating the two brands.

Accenture has agreed to acquire Myrtle Consulting Group, an industrial operations consulting firm headquartered in Houston.

Farm & Oven co-founders Mike Senackerib and Kay Allison will join the Dewey’s Bakery management team with the acquisition.

The merger will help Accenture build cloud based, industrial IoT platforms that speed up and optimize production and logistics for manufacturing and CG companies.

The Kraft Heinz Company revealed the next step in its turnaround: an operating model centered on five pillars that cuts costs by $2 billion, increases marketing spend by 30%, and sells off some of its cheese businesses.

The No. 1 consumer goods company will acquire Aimmune Therapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company developing and commercializing treatments for food allergies, in a deal valued at $2.6 billion.  

The merger expands its engineering services portfolio by strengthening presence in medical devices, consumer and industrial markets across the United States.

The completed transaction introduces Utz as a publicly listed company on the New York Stock Exchange after nearly 100 years as a family-owned business.