Food & Beverages
The food industry is a collective term for manufacturers of food, animal feed and beverages. With sales of over 200 billion euros, the industry is one of the largest industrial sectors in Germany after the automotive industry, mechanical engineering, the chemical and pharmaceutical industry and the electrical industry.
The most important segments of the food industry are the meat, milk processing, baking and pasta production and the confectionery sectors. These sectors account for around 55 per cent of the industry's total turnover. One of the most important challenges facing the industry is the increasing differentiation of consumer behaviour. New food trends are creating new niches and eroding traditional segments.
M&A plays a major role in the food industry. On the one hand, the food industry is in a permanent consolidation mode due to constantly increasing price and margin pressure. On the other hand, M&A activity is driven by the strategy of many market players to adapt their traditional business areas to changing consumer requirements, tap into new markets or even acquire new competences.
Dietmar Kohl
Head of Corporate Finance M&A Hamburg
Dietmar Kohl has worked in the Corporate Finance / M&A division since 1999. He joined the M&A team at DZ BANK in January 2013 and has been responsible for the Food & Beverage and Transport & Logistics sectors since then. Dietmar has advised on numerous national and international transactions in a wide range of industries for over twenty years.
Before joining DZ BANK, Dietmar Kohl worked for several years in Investment Banking / M&A at BNP Paribas and Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein as well as in Corporate Finance / M&A at the former HSH Nordbank.
Dietmar Kohl holds a degree in engineering and studied industrial engineering at the Technical University of Braunschweig and the Technical University of Berlin. As part of his studies, Dietmar Kohl also spent two years at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, where he obtained the "Diplôme d'Ingénieur" degree.
Jogging in the forest, skiing in the Alps and spending cosy hours with his family are among Dietmar Kohl's great passions.
