US beverage industry saw a drop of 12.50% in overall deal activity during March 2022, when compared with the last 12-month average, led by Goode Partners’ $30m private equity deal with JOCKO FUEL, according to GlobalData’s deals database.

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A total of 21 deals worth $60.3m were announced in March 2022, compared with the 12-month average of 24 deals.

venture financing was the leading category in the month in terms of volume with ten deals, which accounted for 47.6% of all deals.

In second place was M&A with seven deals, followed by private equity with four transactions, respectively accounting for 33.3% and 19.05% of overall deal activity in the US technology industry during the month.

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In terms of value of deals, private equity was the leading deal category in the US beverage industry with total deals worth $31m, while venture financing and M&A deals totalled $29.26m and $0m respectively.

US beverage industry deals in March 2022: Top deals

The top five beverage industry deals accounted for 83.4% of the overall value during March 2022.

The combined value of the top five beverage deals stood at $50.28m, against the overall value of $60.3m recorded for the month.

The top five beverage industry deals of March 2022 tracked by GlobalData were:

1) Goode Partners $30m private equity deal with JOCKO FUEL

2) The $16.5m venture financing of Partake Brewing by Barrel Ventures,Circleup Growth Partners,PowerPlant Partners and RC McLean & Associates

3) Aaron Samuels,Aerica Shimizu Banks,Akuna Capital,Bao Nguyen,Carol Lim,Charles Huang,Gaingels,GFR Fund,Gutter Capital,Hyphen Capital,John Resnick,Johnnie Yu,Julia Gouw,LISA LEE,Michael Karnjanaprakorn,Michelle MiJung Banks,Sheila Lirio Marcelo,Theresa Vu and Wen Zhou $2.6m venture financing deal with Nguyen Coffee Supply

4) The $1mprivate equity deal with L’uva Bella by InvestBev

5) Seed InvestCo $0.18m venture financing deal with Drink Monday