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IMCD Acquires Bretano

On March 20, 2024, IMCD acquired distribution company Bretano

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is IMCD’s 18th transaction in the Distribution sector.
  • This is IMCD’s 1st transaction in Costa Rica.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2024-03-20
Target Bretano
Sector Distribution
Buyer(s) IMCD
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Bretano

Santo Domingo, Costa Rica
Bretano is a specialty ingredients distributor in Latin America for the food industry and supplies chemicals to construction and other industrial markets. Established in 1961, Bretano is headquartered in Costa Rica, with commercial and logistics operations in Mexico, Guatemala and El Salvador

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Buyer

IMCD

Rotterdam, Netherlands
Category Company
Founded 1995
Sector Chemicals
Employees5,277
Revenue 4.7B EUR (2024)
DESCRIPTION

IMCD is a marketing, sales and distribution of specialty chemicals and food- and pharma ingredients, with offices and warehouses in 31 countries in Europe, Africa and Australia/Asia. IMCD was founded in 1995 and is based in Rotterdam, Netherlands.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 55 of 64
Sector: Distribution M&A 18 of 21
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 49 of 57
Country: Costa Rica M&A 1 of 1
Year: 2024 M&A 3 of 7
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2024-02-17 ResChem

Warriewood, Australia

ResChem specializes in resins, additives, and pigments for inks, coatings, adhesives, and construction applications. ResChem was founded in 2007 and is based in Warriewood, Australia.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2024-04-24 Cobapharma

Barcelona, Spain

Cobapharma is a European distributor in the pharmaceutical and nutraceutical industry. The company provides an extensive portfolio of Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) as well as nutraceutical ingredients. Cobapharma was formed in 2011 and is based in Barcelona, Spain.

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