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Addisons knows the food and grocery sector. Our in-depth knowledge comes from decades helping owners of household brands with their day-to-day operational issues, legal compliance and strategic transactions.
Our Food & Grocery team advises clients on supply chain management, employment, environmental compliance and sustainability, commercial contracting, packaging and labelling and IP protection. We guide them through compliance with the legislative requirements of the Food Standards Code, Dairy Code, Grocery Code and product recalls.
Knowing the industry and its operations so well means clients can always trust us to provide advice that is both practical and supports their strategic objectives.
Our long-standing clients include The a2 Milk Company Limited, Bega Cheese Limited, Coca-Cola Australia, Colgate-Palmolive, Hill’s Pet Nutrition, SC Johnson & Son and Subway.
since 2010, provided daily advertising and marketing clearance advice to The a2 Milk Company Limited on its global and Australian advertising and marketing campaigns. Also advised on food regulatory issues.
represented The a2 Milk Company Limited in its 2016-17 Federal Court challenge to certain advertising of Lion Dairy & Drinks.
from 2010 and continuing, acting on all transactions Bega has undertaken, including its:
- initial 15% investment in Warrnambool Cheese & Butter in 2010.
- IPO in 2011.
- response to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Dairy Inquiry in 2017.
- M&A advice, merger clearances and capital raisings associated with all its acquisitions.
- $534 million acquisition of the Dairy Farmers, Yoplait, Big M, Masters and Dare and Farmers Union iced coffee brands.
- $250 million acquisition of Saputo’s Koroit processing facility in 2018.
- $460 million acquisition of various assets from Mondelēz Australia including the VEGEMITE brand and peanut butter products in 2017.
acted for TCCC in both the M&A and merger clearance aspects of transactions in Australia including in the:
- 2023 and 2022 acquisitions of various non-alcoholic drink brands in Australia, New Zealand and Fiji, including Mount Franklin, Deep Springs, L&P and Kirks from its bottling partner, Coca-Cola Europacific Partners.
- 2021 sale of its 45% interest, together with its bottler, then known as Coca-Cola Amatil, in the Made Group of Companies (Owners of the Cocobella, Rokeby Farms, Impressed Juice and Nutrient Water brands).
- 2018 acquisition of its 45% interest in the Made Group of Companies, together with Coca-Cola Amatil.