M&A Deal Summary

Merieux NutriSciences Acquires Bureau Veritas Food Testing Business

On October 7, 2024, Merieux NutriSciences acquired food company Bureau Veritas Food Testing Business from Bureau Veritas for 360M EUR

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Merieux NutriSciences’ 1st transaction in the Food sector.
  • This is Merieux NutriSciences’ 0th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Merieux NutriSciences’ 1st transaction in France.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2024-10-07
Target Bureau Veritas Food Testing Business
Sector Food
Buyer(s) Merieux NutriSciences
Sellers(s) Bureau Veritas
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 360M EUR

Target

Bureau Veritas Food Testing Business

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Bureau Veritas' Food Testing Business provides microbiological and chemical analysis and molecular testing. These serve food sector customers through a network of 34 laboratories and 1,900 technical staff across 15 countries in the Americas, Africa, and Asia Pacific.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Merieux NutriSciences

Chicago, Illinois, United States
Category Company
Founded 1967
Sector Business Services
Employees7,900
DESCRIPTION

Merieux NutriSciences is a provider of services to evaluate food safety, quality, and nutrition programs worldwide. Mérieux NutriSciences offers analysis and support services for the development of new products with the aim of preventing health risks related to food. Merieux NutriSciences was established in 1967 and is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 19 of 19
Sector (Food) 1 of 1
Type (Divestiture) 2 of 2
Country (France) 1 of 1
Year (2024) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-12-22 Food Technology Consulting

Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

Food Technology Consulting is a Food Safety consulting, training, and auditing solutions provider that offers the quality, credibility, and confidentiality necessary to support the development, implementation, and maintenance of effective food safety programming. Food Technology Consulting is based in Mississauga, Ontario.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Bureau Veritas

Neuilly-sur-Seine, France
Category Company
Founded 1828
Sector Business Services
Employees77,722
Revenue 5.9B EUR (2023)
DESCRIPTION

Bureau Veritas is delivering high quality services to help clients meet the growing challenges of quality, safety, environmental protection and social responsibility. Bureau Veritas was founded in 1828 and is based in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 4
Sector (Food) 1 of 1
Type (Divestiture) 4 of 4
Country (France) 2 of 2
Year (2024) 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2024-10-07 IDP

Sabadell, Spain

IDP is a provider of engineering services based on Building Information Modeling (BIM) and other digitization services for a wide range of sectors. IDP works in all its areas of performance by BIM (Building Information Modelling), which allows designing, to project, to organize and to direct a digital work construction, integrating all the information in a parametrized, complete, unique and centralized model that shares all the participating agents that will take part during all the buildings life cycle, infrastructure, etc. IDP was formed in 1998 and is based in Sabadell, Spain.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2024-10-23 Aligned Incentives

Middleton, Massachusetts, United States

Aligned Incentives is a provider of AI-powered sustainability planning solutions that offers a market-leading, GenAI-powered enterprise sustainability planning solution, distinguished by the depth and speed of its Scope 3 analytical capabilities. Aligned Incentives is based in Middleton, Massachusetts.

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