M&A Deal Summary

Darling Ingredients Acquires Rothsay Biodiesel

On September 16, 2013, Darling Ingredients acquired environmental company Rothsay Biodiesel from Maple Leaf

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Darling Ingredients’ 3rd transaction in the Environmental sector.
  • This is Darling Ingredients’ 1st transaction in Canada.
  • This is Darling Ingredients’ 1st transaction in Ontario.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2013-09-16
Target Rothsay Biodiesel
Sector Environmental
Buyer(s) Darling Ingredients
Sellers(s) Maple Leaf
Deal Type Divestiture

Target

Rothsay Biodiesel

Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Rothsay Biodiesel rendering facility producing biodiesel using recycled animal fats and used cooking oils. Rothsay Biodiesel was commissioned as Canada’s first commercial-scale biodiesel plant with a rated capacity of 35 million litres per year.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Darling Ingredients

Irwing, Texas, United States

Category Company
Founded 1882
Sector Environmental
Employees15,800
Revenue 6.8B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION

Darling Ingredients is a developer and producer of sustainable natural ingredients from edible and inedible bio-nutrients, creating a wide range of ingredients and customized specialty solutions for customers in the pharmaceutical, food, pet food, feed, technical, fuel, bioenergy, and fertilizer industries. Darling Ingredients was incorporated in 1882 and is based in Irving, Texas.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 14
Sector (Environmental) 3 of 7
Type (Divestiture) 1 of 3
State (Ontario) 1 of 2
Country (Canada) 1 of 2
Year (2013) 2 of 4
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-09-09 Terra Renewal Services

Russellville, Arkansas, United States

Terra Renewal LLC is a provider of environmentally-friendly disposition solutions for non-hazardous liquid waste. On a recurring basis, Terra collects wastewater residuals from food processing companies, restaurants, municipalities and oil & gas companies and, in most cases, land applies this material for beneficial use on farmland pursuant to environmental permits. Terra Renewal also provides industrial and municipal lagoon and digester clean-out services, and yellow grease and grease-trap collection, reprocessing and recycling services.

Buy $120M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-10-07 VION Ingredients Nederland B.V.

Best,, Netherlands

Vion Ingredients' rendering business has major positions across Europe with operations in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Poland and Italy under the Rendac and Sonac brand names. Value added products include edible fats, blood products and plasma meals, bone products, protein meals and fats. Rousselot is the leading market provider of gelatin for the food, pharmaceuticals, and pet food industries with operations in the United States, Europe, South America and China.

Buy €1.6B

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Maple Leaf

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Category Company
Founded 1927
Sector Food
Employees13,500
Revenue 4.9B CAD (2023)
DESCRIPTION

Maple Leaf is a provider of consumer packaged prodcuts headquartered in Toronto, Ontario. Company make high-quality, great tasting, nutritious and innovative food products under leading brands including Maple Leaf, Maple Leaf Prime, Maple Leaf Natural Selections, Schneiders, Schneiders Country Naturals and Mina. Maple Leaf Foods was founded in 1927 and is based in Mississauga, Canada.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 5
Sector (Environmental) 1 of 2
Type (Divestiture) 2 of 5
State (Ontario) 2 of 3
Country (Canada) 2 of 5
Year (2013) 1 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-11-01 The Puratone

Niverville, Manitoba, Canada

The Puratone Corp. is a hog production company. Puratone also operates three feed mills that provide a dedicated high quality supply to support their hog production operations.

Buy $42M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-10-28 Rothsay

Guelph,, Ontario, Canada

Rothsay is a provider of essential services for the efficient and environmentally responsible management of collecting, processing and recycling edible and inedible animal by-products.

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