25 Most Important Acquisitions In The International Market

Before you know it, half of 2017 has passed, and you are on the way to achieve your goal. Can you sum up the past 6 months?

According to the world clothing shoes and hats net, we look at the world.

In the first half of the year, there were more important events.

Acquisition, financing, closures, closing, expanding, adjusting, launching new businesses, trying new technologies, appointing new executives, and reaching new cooperation.

There are a lot of cases to be brought out of any topic.

Here, we selected the 25 most important acquisitions in the international field in the first half of the year to summarize and comment, hoping to seize some market development trend.

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Coach, the us light luxury company, announced in July that it had completed its acquisition of Kate Spade, which ceased trading on the New York stock exchange in July 12th.

It is reported that the total amount of the paction amounted to 2 billion 400 million US dollars.

On the Coach side, it is said that it will be appropriated through senior bills, regular bank loans and cash portfolios held by the company.

In fact, Kate Spade has fallen by more than 60% in two years before it was sold.

This also led to its sale at the end of last year, and the eventual resuscitation of Coach.

The combination of the two means that Coach now owns three brands, namely, Coach, Kate Spade and Stuart Weitzman, which focuses on shoes.

Compared to Coach, Kate Spade's product line is wider, its location is more youthful and lively, and has strong influence in the millennial consumer group.

Coach CEO Victor Luis has said that this part of consumers will become the core power to drive the organic growth of global luxury products in the future.

2, Amazon spent $13 billion 700 million on total eclipse.

In June, Amazon announced that it would spend $13 billion 700 million on the acquisition of Whole Foods Market, a fresh grocery retailer (hereinafter referred to as "totality").

This is the biggest acquisition in the history of Amazon, which cost $13 billion 700 million.

Totality currently has 436 branches in the United States, and has its own e-commerce outlets, more than 30 million registered customers, of whom 8 million come to shop every week.

Although the number of stores is only 1/10 compared with that of WAL-MART, the coverage area of the 4700 stores is very close.

3, Amazon's acquisition of the largest electricity supplier in the Middle East Souq.com

At the end of March this year, it was reported that Amazon intends to enter the Middle East market by acquiring Souq.com, the largest electricity supplier in the Middle East.

Until the early July, the deal finally came to an end. Inside information, Amazon bought Souq.com for a total of 650 million dollars.

At the same time, the two companies also announced that they have completed the initial integration, and the future users can use Amazon account to login to Souq.com's website.

Next, they plan to integrate products and services to expand their scale.

In the statement, Souq.com expressed the hope to promote the development of its own business by integrating the existing resources of Amazon.

4, the US private equity giant Sycamore Partners acquired Staples

At the end of June, Sycamore bought office supplies retailer Staples (Staples) for about $6 billion 900 million.

Under the agreement, Sycamore will pay $10.25 per share of Staples shares.

This will be the largest leveraged buyout in the us so far this year.

It is reported that Sycamore will revolve around three businesses to restructure Staples's business, including its B2B business, as well as the US retail business and Canadian retail business.

In addition, Sycamore may divestiture Staples's retail line business.

5, WAL-MART acquisition of mens e-commerce website Bonobos

In order to further deepen the layout of online fashion retailing, in June this year, WAL-MART announced the acquisition of Bonobos, a male business website, for $310 million.

Bonobos, founded in 2007, is a newly established company that sells customized clothing only on the Internet. After its acquisition, its products will not be sold on WAL-MART's physical stores or websites, but will be sold on WAL-MART's online market Jet.com, which was purchased by WAL-MART for $3 billion.

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6, WAL-MART acquisition of fashion business ModCloth

WAL-MART announced in March this year that it has completed the acquisition of Modcloth, the country's independent fashion supplier.

Modcloth, founded in 2002, has attracted romantic fantasy consumption from the retro style dress, accessories and household products from the designer brand. It has been financing for 78 million years since its establishment in 15 years.

In 2015, sales of Modcloth amounted to $150 million, and at the end of 2016, it opened the first real store in Austen, Dezhou.

7, WAL-MART's acquisition of outdoor apparel online retailer Moosejaw

In February, CNBC reported that WAL-MART bought Moosejaw, an outdoor clothing and merchandise retailer at about $51 million.

A spokeswoman for WAL-MART said that Moosejaw's "strong assets" in outdoor products and its relationship with the more than 400 brands make it very beneficial to WAL-MART's business portfolio.

These brands include brands such as Patagonia and The North Face, which WAL-MART does not currently sell.

8. Lee Jen bought Mead Johnson.

Reckitt Benckiser Group plc, the UK's fast moving giant, DL and Durex's parent company, officially announced in June 12th that its purchase of Mead Mead has been approved by the regulatory authorities, which will be completed in June 15th.

Li Jie was founded in 1823 to produce health, health and home care fast consumer goods, with net income of 9 billion 891 million euros (75 billion 260 million RMB) in 2016.

Its most famous brand in China is Durex. In addition, it also has health care brands such as dripping, Veet, light dishes, home care brand, Anne Jia, skillful hands and stains.

Mead Johnson is the third largest baby food manufacturer in the world after Nestle and Danone.

According to Euro international data, Mead Johnson occupies 10% of the world's infant food market.

In the Asian infant formula market, Mead Johnson occupies only 12% of the market share of Nestle.

9, the Chinese consortium 600 million US dollars to acquire the Australian condom brand Jissbon.

In June, Ansell, the Australian glove and surgical mask manufacturer, announced the sale of its condom and lubricants business. The acquirer was the three China acquisition fund of the fortune Pharmaceutical Group and CITIC Capital.

The paction is subject to approval by regulatory authorities and is expected to be completed by the end of September.

Jissbon is the condom brand of Ansell.

The main business of the fortune Pharmaceutical Group covers medicine, reproductive health and other industries, including contraceptives, narcotics and other drugs.

10, Unilever acquired Quala's nursing brand.

Unilever, the international consumer goods giant, announced in May this year the acquisition of Quala's personal and family care brand in the Latin American consumer company.

Quala was founded in 1980 to produce personal and family care products such as Hu Fa, skin care and fabric care products. Its brands include Savital/Savil e (Hu Fa and skin cleaning), eGo (male Hu Fa and styling), Bio-Expert (Hu Fa), Fortident (oral care) and Aromatel (fabric care agent), with sales of $more than 400 million in 2016.

Unilever said that Quala has a high market share in 10 Latin American countries such as Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico, Dominica, Haiti, Peru, Salvatore, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala.

"This acquisition will help further stabilize and enhance our leading position in the global hair care industry, which is beneficial to our oral care and men's beauty business and will complement our existing business."

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11, private Holdings Company HGGC acquisition of American health care giant Nutraceutical

The US nutrition and health care company Nutraceutical International Corp (Nutraceutical) issued a statement in May, saying that the company agreed to buy HGGC LLC, a private Holdings Company, at a price of 446 million US dollars.

Under the agreement, Nutraceutical shareholders will receive $41.80 cash per share, and the company's market value is $386 million 700 thousand, which is expected to be completed in the second half of this year.

According to public information, Nutraceutical is headquartered in Park City, Utah, USA, which mainly produces dietary supplements, protective products, food and pet foods. Its brands include Solaray, Nature 's Life, Natural Balance and Organix South, and also has health food stores such as "Balance," ",", "and".

12, the old British department store HOF acquired fashion brand Issa

British high-end department store chain House of Fraser (HOF) announced the acquisition of London's top fashion brand Issa in May, and the paction amount has not yet been announced.

House of Fraser spokesman said that after the completion of the acquisition, Issa will be exclusively sold in House of Fraser.

According to public information, Issa was founded in 2003 by Daniella Helayel, a London based designer from Brazil.

In the early days, the brand focused on making expensive silk dresses.

In 2010, the British Princess Kate Middleton wore a Issa colored dress at the engagement ceremony with Prince William, which made Issa overnight famous and its orders surged.

In 2011, Issa's controlling stake was acquired by Camilla Al-Fayed, a 26 year old Arabia beauty tycoon.

13, Danone buys the food business WhiteWave

In April 12th this year, Danone announced its acquisition of WhiteWave, an American food company, through its WeChat public address.

Danone and WhiteWave will merge the existing business in North America into a strategic business unit and be named "DanoneWave".

It is reported that in July last year, Danone and WhiteWave reached an agreement to buy the latter with a valuation of about $10 billion.

WhiteWave, founded in the United States, mainly focuses on natural and organic food business, including high-end organic dairy products, non genetically modified foods, vegetable protein foods and beverages, fresh food and coffee partners. Among them, Silk is the best-selling brand of soymilk in the United States.

Another brand of plant beverage brand Alpro also has a wide influence in the European and American markets.

In 2014 Mengniu and WhiteWave co founded the original plant brand Silk plant mill and sold it in the Chinese market.

14, Samsonite's acquisition of luggage luggage eBags

Samsonite International SA (Samsonite), the world's largest maker of brand luggage, said in April that it bought us tourist bags and related accessories online retailer eBags by US $105 million Samsonite LLC.

Samsonite points out that eBags will provide a powerful platform for the group to accelerate the development of e-commerce in North America and the world.

On the other hand, the group will also acquire real-time resources and digital expertise from eBags to enhance the existing digital capabilities of the group.

15, 7-11 parent company purchase Sunoco more than 1000 gas stations and convenience stores

According to the April report, 7-Eleven's parent company Seven&i bought 1108 gas stations and convenience stores in the United States from American Oil Co Sunoco at a price of 3 billion 300 million US dollars.

Sunoco has 1350 convenience stores and gas stations on hand, and Seven&i is fully accepted.

16, Southeast Asian taxi application Grab acquisition of Indonesia payment enterprise Kudo

Grab announced in early April that it had agreed to acquire Kudo, a Indonesia Internet payment start-up, but did not disclose the exact amount of the paction.

Kudo, founded in 2014, mainly helps consumers in Indonesia's small and medium-sized towns without bank accounts to complete online payment.

The company first provided services through sales outlets throughout the public places similar to telephone kiosks, and then began to introduce an agent system.

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17. Singapore's fad Carousell bought its rival Duriana

At the beginning of this year, Singapore's second-hand trading platform Carousell announced the acquisition of rival Duriana. After the completion of the paction, about 600000 of Duriana's users will be merged into the Carousell platform, but the exact amount of the acquisition is not disclosed.

In terms of mode, Carousell and Duriana are similar to those of leisure fish. They all use C2C playing method. After simply editing the commodity information and uploading the physical map, they can freely trade the idle items on the platform.

Previously, Duriana and Carousell were fiercely competitive in Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia.

18, LV acquisition of France independent perfume brand Francis Kurkdjian

In March this year, LVMH group announced the acquisition of a majority stake in Francis Kurkdjian, a French independent perfume company, to accelerate its entry into the fast-growing niche luxury perfume market.

In its takeover statement, it said that after the completion of the acquisition, Maison Francis Kurkdjian will accelerate growth, especially in overseas markets.

19, the American underwear giant PVH bought underwear, a start-up business True&Co.

With Calvin Klein, Olga and other brands becoming one of the American underwear giants, PVH bought the underwear business True&Co., founded 5 years ago, in March this year.

It is reported that since 2012, True&Co. has won over $12 million in financing, including Cowboy Ventures, Crosslink Capital, Great Oaks, SoftBank, Venture Capital and First First.

Its unique feature is to use more than 5 million women's data and more than 130 million data points, and online tests to find the most suitable bra and other underwear for customers.

20. Shandong's acquisition of UK's Centennial brand Aquascutum

In early March, the Chinese textile company Shandong Ruyi Group acquired the news of the British 100 century brand Aquascutum, which was purchased by the brand operator YGM Trade Co., Ltd., which announced that the paction reached 117 million dollars.

Shandong Ruyi group is headquartered in Jining, Shandong, formerly known as Shandong Jining wool textile mill. It was founded in 2001. Its business is mainly composed of top grade and top grade fabrics. Its annual sales volume is more than 4 billion 600 million US dollars, and its own Ruyi brand has more than 3000 outlets in the Asia Pacific market.

Founded in 1851, Aquascutum was famous for making waterproof clothing for the army in the first World War. It has more than 160 years of development history. It is sought after by many aristocrats and celebrities. It is also known as the representative of the British clothing brand with Burberry and Barbour.

21, L'OREAL $1 billion 300 million acquisition of CeraVe and other three major skin care brands

L'OREAL, the world's largest beauty product group, announced in January that it would acquire the three beauty brands of CeraVe, AcneFree and Ambi of Canada Company Valeant Pharmaceuticals Inc. for 1 billion 300 million US dollars.

In this regard, Fr d d ric Roz, President of the US company, said that the acquisition of the three brands would double the sales of the group's active cosmetics department in the US and further strengthen the brand portfolio of the group.

22, the beauty giant Coty bought cosmetics online retailer Younique

The US beauty giant Coty group, following L'OREAL's pace, bought the Younique 60% of cosmetics online retailer for $600 million in January this year. The paction is carried out in the form of cash plus debt, and is expected to be completed in the third quarter of this year.

Coty is mainly engaged in perfume business, acting Chloe, Marc Jacobs, Vera Wang and other brands of perfume business.

Younique was founded in September 2012, and most of its products are cosmetic products, as well as a small part of skin care and body care products.

That's Younique's valuation of $1 billion compared to the paction.

After the end of the paction, Younique's value is expected to go up to a new level.

23, Shiseido acquisition of beauty start-up technology company MATCHCo

Shiseido group, Japan's largest beauty group, acquired MATCHCo., a start-up beauty technology company in January this year.

It hopes to combine the revolutionary digital technology of MATCHCo with the strength of R & D technology possessed by Shiseido, which will benefit the further enhancement of group business mode.

MATCHCo was founded in 2013. Users can detect their skin color by smart phone through the application developed by their patented technology, and can buy online customized foundation based on their skin color.

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24, Tesco acquisition of British food wholesaler Booker

Tesco, the biggest retailer in Britain, announced the purchase of Booker, a food wholesaler, in January, at a price of up to 3 billion 700 million pounds.

Booker will replace Tesco with 1:0861 at the same time and get 42.6 Pence of cash per share.

After the paction is completed, the Booker shareholders will share 16% of the new company's shares, which means that the trading price of Booker is 205.3 pence.

25, fashion business Boohoo acquisition of Nasty Gal

Nasty Gal, the US fashion retailer, filed for bankruptcy protection in November last year, and was confirmed to have been bought by Boohoo, a fast fashion provider in February this year.

It is said that Boohoo bought Nasty Gal valued at more than 200 million US dollars for only 20 million US dollars, and will acquire this super fashionable brand intellectual property, customer data and other assets.

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