M&A Deal Summary

Post Holdings Acquires Dakota Growers Pasta

On January 2, 2014, Post Holdings acquired food company Dakota Growers Pasta from Viterra for 370M USD

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Post Holdings’ 1st transaction in the Food sector.
  • This is Post Holdings’ 6th largest (disclosed) transaction.
  • This is Post Holdings’ 2nd transaction in the United States.
  • This is Post Holdings’ 1st transaction in North Dakota.

M&A Deal Summary
Date 2014-01-02
Target Dakota Growers Pasta
Sector Food
Buyer(s) Post Holdings
Sellers(s) Viterra
Deal Type Divestiture
Deal Value 370M USD

Target

Dakota Growers Pasta

Carrington, North Dakota, United States
Dakota Growers with approximately $5 billion North American pasta market, with leadership positions in the private label retail, food service and ingredient channels. where it has durum wheat milling and pasta production capabilities.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Post Holdings

St. Louis, Missouri, United States
Category Company
Founded 1895
Sector Food
Employees10,420
Revenue 7.0B USD (2023)
DESCRIPTION
Post Holdings' corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri.
Post Holdings' corporate headquarters in St. Louis, Missouri.

Post Holdings is a consumer packaged goods holding company, operating in the center-of-the-store, foodservice, ingredient, refrigerated, active nutrition and private label food categories. Post Holdings was founded in 1895 and is based in St. Louis, Missouri.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 2 of 16
Sector (Food) 1 of 12
Type (Divestiture) 1 of 5
State (North Dakota) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 2 of 13
Year (2014) 1 of 7
Size (of disclosed) 6 of 11
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2013-09-03 Premier Nutrition

Emeryville, California, United States

Premier Nutrition, Inc. is a marketer and distributor of premium protein beverages and foods under its Premier Protein brand and nutritional supplements under its Joint Juice brand.

Buy $180M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-02-03 Golden Boy Foods

Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada

Golden Boy Foods Ltd. is a manufacturer, marketer and distributor of more than 400 private label and branded food products, including peanut butter, baking nuts, snacking nuts, trail mixes, raisins, dried fruits and jams.

Buy CA$320M

Seller(S) 1

SELLER

Viterra

Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
Category Company
Founded 1924
Sector Agriculture
DESCRIPTION

Viterra, Inc. is a grain and oil seeds marketer and handler. Viterra handles wheat, durum, barley, canola oils, and pulses.

DEAL STATS #
Overall 3 of 3
Sector (Food) 2 of 2
Type (Divestiture) 3 of 3
State (North Dakota) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 1 of 1
Year (2014) 1 of 1
Size (of disclosed) 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2012-08-02 Canadian Fertilizers

Medicine Hat, Alberta, Canada

Canadian Fertilizers Ltd. owns the largest nitrogen fertilizer complex in Canada, located in Medicine Hat, Alberta. The Medicine Hat complex has two ammonia plants with 1,250,000 tons of production capacity and a urea plant with 810,000 tons of production capacity.

Sell CA$915M
FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2022-01-26 Gavilon

Omaha, Nebraska, United States

Gavilon originates, stores, and distributes grains, oilseeds, as well as feed and food ingredients, to food manufacturers, livestock producers, poultry processors, soybean processors, and ethanol producers worldwide. Gavilon was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska.

Buy $1.1B
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