Consumer and Leisure Corporate Finance
Food, drink, cosmetics, clothing, home-wares, health & fitness, sports equipment, jewellery, greeting cards, social stationery, retail, travel
Social Stationery - cards, gift-wrap, gifts and calendars
In the UK a large portion, excuse the pun, of the Consumer and Leisure corporate finance activity relates to food and drink. Seen as defensive sectors in times of recession, businesses have fared relatively well compared to service industries where budgets can be cut. With the strength of food and drink related stocks relatively stronger than the rest of the market, larger businesses have maintained their ability to acquire.
Generally the key word with businesses in this sector is brand (see our post on brand valuation). The metrics that reflect a brand’s value are often highly related to the acquiring party. Once a product or service offering has been created and grown a presence in a market, the business becomes extremely attractive for ‘roll-out’ across broad geographies and into related market sectors.
Consumer and leisure Case Study 1
Consumer and Leisure Case Study 2
Consumer and leisure corporate finance news
- Mattel completes acquisition of Hit Entertainment
- Frutarom Industries : Acquisition of Flavors Company in Slovenia
- Hot Tuna (Intnl) plc : Proposed sale of Assets & Notice of GM
- French Connection : Further re disposal of Nicole Farhi
- PZ CUSSONS PLC : Acquisition
Our experience of successfully completing consumer and leisure corporate finance transactions ranges from soft drinks to stationery, butchers shops to body building.