Private equity fund, India Value Fund Advisors (IVFA) has agreed to invest Rs 270 cr ($40 million) through a secondary share purchase in Seedworks International Pvt Ltd., a Hyderabad-based hybrid seed manufacturer. SeedWorks develops, produces, and markets hybrid rice, cotton, pearl millet, and corn seed with rice and cotton responsible for the majority of the […]
Two of Australia’s leading produce companies, Perfection Fresh Australia and FruitMaster, have announced their agreement to merge their table grape businesses. The resulting company, which will trade as FruitMaster Australia, will be the largest table grape grower and marketer in the country. It will have a Board comprised of representatives from both companies as well […]
Farmland Partners Inc. (FPI) and American Farmland Company (AFCO) have agreed upon a stock for stock merger of the two companies under which Farmland Partners will acquire all of the outstanding common stock of American Farmland. The combined company will be the largest public farmland real estate investment trust (REIT) in the U.S., with a […]
U.S.-based food and agribusiness investment firm, Paine & Partners, has made an undisclosed investment in Meadow Foods, the largest independently owned dairy group and supplier of dairy products in the UK, through its $893 million Paine & Partners IV fund. Founded in 1992, Meadow Foods currently handles more than 500 million liters of milk per […]
Cooke Aquaculture Scotland, the regional unit of Cooke Aquaculture, announced it has agreed to acquire Balta Island Seafare – a salmon farming company located in the Shetland Islands for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition includes three farms with a combined annual output of 1,000 tons of salmon and follows a year after Cooke’s acquisition of […]
Bangladesh-based Direct Fresh, a supplier of safe, fresh produce to wholesale markets, retailers, institutional customers and households announced a new unspecified round of investment led by RSA Capital, and including public and private equity investor, Business Research International Corporation Inc., and private equity fund, Razor Capital. Launched three years ago, Direct Fresh has seen rapid […]
Ireland-based banana and produce company, Fyffes, has bought its second Canadian mushroom producer within six months. Less than six months after its entry into the Canadian mushroom sector with the acquisition of Canada’s largest mushroom producer, Highline Produce Ltd. for C$145 million (US$165 million), Fyffes announced it has agreed to acquire 100 percent of the […]
GRWC Holdings Limited, a subsidiary of Polish investment fund, Abris Capital, has agreed to acquire a majority stake equal to 55.77 percent in leading Polish fish processor, Graal SA, for an undisclosed amount. GRWC reportedly has intentions of acquiring full ownership of the company and de-listing it from the Warsaw Stock Exchange, according to Intra […]
On behalf of its retail business–Crop Protection Services (CPS)–Agrium has announced that it has received regulatory approval for two deals. The first is its previously announced deal to purchase 18 retail locations across the northern U.S. Corn Belt from Cargill AgHorizons and the second is the group’s latest deal to acquire 16 locations across Western Canada […]
UK-based social impact investor, AgDevCo has agreed to invest $1.5 million under a debt and equity deal in Malawian peanut processor Agri-Oils Limited. The funding will help support the construction of a state-of-the-art peanut processing facility being built by Afri-Oils that will process locally sourced peanuts from 18,000 regional smallholder farmers to be shipped to […]
