Deal Tracking

Photo credit: Centuria Capital By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Specialist investment manager Centuria Capital Group has acquired a 20-hectare (50-acre) tomato glasshouse operation in Guyra, New South Wales via its Centuria Agriculture Fund (CAF) from an undisclosed family-owned investment office. This is the third off-market glasshouse asset acquisition for CAF, bringing total under-glass acreage […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Wide Open Agriculture (WOA), Australia’s leading ASX-listed regenerative food and agriculture company, announced it has secured up to A$12 million (US$8 million) in debt facilities with National Australia Bank (NAB) to support the company’s growth in manufacturing plant-based beverages.  The components of this financing package include $A8 million (US$5.4 […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media UK-based private equity firm Exponent has entered into an agreement to acquire IFF’s Flavor Specialty Ingredients (FSI) business in an all-cash deal for $220 million. IFF’s FSI is a leading producer of specialty base aromas with a wide range exceeding 1,000 aroma chemicals and natural extracts, which provide inputs […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Galway Sustainable Capital, an impact investor that targets companies, projects, and assets that promote environmental and social resilience through locally-based solutions, has made an undisclosed investment to facilitate the acquisition of Central Coast World Farm (CCWF) and its conversion to a state-of-the-art vermicompost facility by Yield RMG.  Every year […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Post Holdings announced its formation of a pet food platform after signing a definitive agreement to acquire select pet food brands from The J.M. Smucker Co. in a $1.2 billion deal consisting of $700 million in cash and approximately 5.39 million shares of Post Holdings common stock.  Under the […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Once again the Southeast U.S. is proving to be a hotbed for timberland deals.  Private investment management services firm Domain Capital Group has revealed its acquisition of 22,000 acres of timberland throughout the U.S. Southeast via six separate transactions spanning October 2022 to January 2023. These deals add to […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media New Zealand Superannuation Fund is expanding its partnership with T&G Global through the acquisition of T&G’s 194-hectare Riwaka orchard in Nelson by FarmRight, the fund’s rural investment manager.  “Over the past two years, we’ve developed a strong partnership with the NZ Super Fund, which is built off our shared […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Campbell Global, the wholly owned timber investment manager of J.P. Morgan Global Alternatives, advised investors and has led the acquisition of more than 250,000 acres of commercial timberland across three properties in the Southeastern region of the U.S., through a deal valued at more than $500 million. J.P. Morgan […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Canadian alternative investment manager Veripath Farmland Partners has acquired 3,026 acres of farmland in Alberta, Canada, through its Veripath Farmland (UR) Fund, bringing its total portfolios to approximately 110,000 acres.  Launched in mid-2020 amid the global pandemic, Veripath continues to rapidly grow – operating on the conviction that global […]

By Lynda Kiernan-Stone, Global AgInvesting Media Florida-based Karis Capital has invested $150 million in Cattlemen’s Heritage Beef Company, an operation launched with the goal of offering sustainable beef with economic benefits for family-run cattle farms and the state of Iowa.  This investment will now allow Cattlemen’s Heritage to move forward with plans to break ground later […]