The U.S. food industry experienced a wave of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) during the second half of the last decade. Increasingly, marketing-related objectives have been suspected to cause these M&As. Denise Dahlhoff investigates the motives underlying the M&A activity in the U.S. food...

The research in the Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A) field has been prolific in recent years. This is unsurprising, as M&A have been increasingly relevant in the scope of corporate growth and restructuring, as proved by the magnitude of the latest M&A global wave. Nevertheless, despite the large...