Industrial manufacturing M&A value hits record 10 year high

Posted on 20 Feb 2015 by Tim Brown
M&A deals were up in 2014 and the volume remained high in the fourth quarter of 2014 (image courtesy of DFC).

Industrial manufacturing closed out a big year for merger and acquisition (M&A) activity, according to Assembling Value, a quarterly report by PwC US.

There were a total of 213 industrial manufacturing deals (worth more than $50m) in 2014 and the total value soared to $127bn, an increase of 163% over the 2013 value of $48.3bn from 148 deals. Last year’s M&A activity also surpassed the previous 10-year high of $92.4bn set in 2006. Deal value and volume remained…

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