Family-owned companies have big appetites for US snack M&A
Utz UTZ.N agreed to be taken private by Germany’s Intersnack Group, with Utz’s founding families, in a deal valued at nearly $3 billion, the first U.S. acquisition for Intersnack. The article cites other family-led snack deals including Ferrero’s purchases of WK Kellogg and Power Crunch, and Mars’s $36 billion take-private of Kellanova. It notes valuation multiples and potential targets.
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