Foods and agriculture – the next big theme?
A series of recent deals, such as the Carlyle Group’s $190 million investment in Singapore-listed industrial fishing company China Fishery Group, and the a $600 million pre-IPO investment led by Capital International and the Blackstone Group into Dili Group Holdings, a Chinese operator of wholesale vegetable markets, underline how food and agriculture investments are increasing across the value chain in China and beyond.
“The theme actually started a number of years ago,” Patrick Siewert, MD with the Carlyle Group, told AVCJ. “As soon as China and India in terms of demographics start to take off, it’s the rebalancing...
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