Financial Deals Industry Tracker - Retail, Annual Round-Up 2008

Introduction

Analysis and opinion on 2008 deal activity, containing the trends in the last twelve months for merger and acquisition (M&A), private equity, private placement, IPO, secondary offering, and alliance/partnership deals.

Scope

• Insights into deal activity across M&A, private equity, private placement, IPO, secondary offering, and strategic alliance deals.
• Geographical trends by primary regions and by key emerging markets.
• Detailed analysis of the deal activity during the year by deal volume and value.

Highlights

Declining sales and profit margins have driven consolidation in the retail industry, primarily in mature markets. Deal activity in value and volume terms was dominated by Europe throughout 2008.

M&A activity was primarily focused on the supermarket, drugstore, and consumer electronic retailing segments. Retailers operating in the hypermarket and supermarket segment looked to expand their positions in fast growing emerging markets.

Reasons to Purchase

• Understand which sectors are experiencing activity and which types of investors are playing the most significant roles.
• Find out how key deals are changing the competitive landscape for your business.
• Find out how companies in the retail industry are raising funds through capital markets, private equity and private placement deals.