18.12.2018
- Chemical distribution giant Brenntag has agreed to sell its Danish subsidiary Brenntag Biosector to UK specialty chemical company Croda for €72 million. Karsten Beckmann, CEO...
18.09.2018
- Distribution giant Brenntag has agreed to acquire Kenya’s Desbro Group, strengthening the German company’s specialty chemicals presence in Africa. The Essen-based group said Desbro...
20.08.2018
- Brenntag has bought specialty chemicals distributor Alphamin from Belgium’s KeBek Private Equity, marking the fourth acquisition for the German distribution giant this year...
06.07.2018
- In its third acquisition so far this year, German distribution giant Brenntag has signed an agreement with Canada Colors and Chemicals (CCC) to acquire the Toronto company’s...
30.04.2018
- The European Association of Chemical Distributors (FECC) picked the tagline “Shaping successful partnerships for the new market demands” as the theme for this year’s annual...
17.04.2018
- For the global specialty chemicals sector, the past two years have been among the most exciting of the young millennium. Many mergers and acquisitions were in the spotlight in 2017...
08.01.2018
- The year just ended was marked by a flood of M&A activity also in the distribution sector. Leading the way, German giant Brenntag said it planned to acquire all shares of specialty...
08.01.2018
- On the pharmaceutical side, super-dimensioned M&A activity was somewhat more modest. Many of the deals were between players in the biochemicals segment or conventional drugmakers...