M&A Deal Summary

Swire Pacific Acquires Qinyuan Bakery

On December 8, 2014, Swire Pacific acquired food company Qinyuan Bakery from EQT

Acquisition Highlights
  • This is Swire Pacific’s 1st transaction in the Food sector.
  • This is Swire Pacific’s 1st transaction in China.

M&A Deal Summary

Date 2014-12-08
Target Qinyuan Bakery
Sector Food
Buyer(s) Swire Pacific
Sellers(s) EQT
Deal Type Add-on Acquisition

Target

Qinyuan Bakery

China
Qinyuan Bakery is a retail bakery chain in Southwest China with Chongqing, Guizhou, and Sichuan as three main markets. Qinyuan bakery offers a variety of bakery products and festival products with a modern, healthy, and family-oriented concept. Qinyuan Bakery was founded in 1989 and is based in China.

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Buyer(S) 1

Buyer

Swire Pacific

Hong Kong, China

Category Company
Founded 1816
Sector Business Services
Employees87,000
Revenue 82.0B HKD (2024)
DESCRIPTION

Swire Pacific is an entity with diversified interests in five operating divisions: property, aviation, beverages, marine services and trading & industrial. Swire Pacific was founded in 1816 and is based in Hong Kong, China.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 1 of 2
Sector: Food M&A 1 of 1
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 1 of 1
Country: China M&A 1 of 2
Year: 2014 M&A 1 of 1
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
1999-12-29 Swire & Maclaine

London, United Kingdom

Swire & Maclaine is a provider of product sourcing and quality assurance services. Products sourced include garments and a range of hard goods such as toys, furniture, gifts, cookware and cutlery. Swire & Maclaine currently has 12 offices in Asia, a service centre in the US and 11 quality control hubs covering some 31 production markets.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2016-01-01 DeltaHealth

Shanghai, China

DeltaHealth is a comprehensive foreign-funded hospital that features the diagnosis and treatment of cardiovascular diseases and provides international standards and high-quality medical services. DeltaHealth was founded in 2016 and is based in Shanghai, China.

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Seller(S) 1

SELLER

EQT

Stockholm, Sweden

Investor Investor Investor Investor Investor


Category Private Equity Firm
Founded 1994
PE ASSETS 242.0B EUR
Size Mega
Type Sector Agnostic
DESCRIPTION

EQT is a global private equity group that purses a variety of investment strategies around the world. EQT is divided into several investment disciplines, including private capital, real assets, credit, and venture. The Firm's private capital group targets large, market-leading enterprises (investment size of €125 to €1.5 billion) across Europe and the US, as well as mid-market, growth companies (investment size of €40 to €125 million) across the US, Europe, China, and Southeast Asia. The Firm's real assets group seeks to identify control or co-control equity investments (investment size of €500 to €1 billion) in medium-sized infrastructure companies that provide an essential service to society, are recession resilient, and have secure cash flows. EQT's credit group provides flexible, long-term debt capital solutions to medium-sized European businesses, across a wide range of sectors. EQT was established in 1994 and is headquartered in Stockholm, Sweden.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 64 of 194
Sector: Food M&A 3 of 6
Type: Add-on Acquisition M&A Deals 27 of 76
Country: China M&A 2 of 8
Year: 2014 M&A 9 of 9
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2014-12-04 Munksjo AB

Jonkoping, Sweden

Munksjo is a manufacturer of value-added speciality paper products. The company is organized around three divisions: Decor Paper (60% of sales), Speciality Paper (20%) and Pulp (20%). Munksjo?s main product, Decor paper, is used in laminates for furniture, flooring, kitchen worktops and other applications where the end product has the appearance of wood or other materials

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2015-01-01 Koole Tanktransport

Zaandam, Netherlands

Koole Tanktransport is an independent storage terminal operator for edible oils and fats, biofuels, oleochemicals, and certain base oils (“vegetable oils”) in North-Western Europe. Koole’s assets include a deep-sea terminal in Rotterdam, which is the natural port of entry for vegetable oil imports into Europe, as well as regional hub terminals in Zaandam and Nijmegen. Koole Tanktransport is based in Zaandam, Netherlands.

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