Privately-held spirit company Bacardi has expanded its portfolio of premium rums with the acquisition of BANKS rum.

Multinational snack food conglomerate Mondelez Internationa, Inc. and D.E. Master Blenders 1753 B.V. have completed the transactions to combine their coffee businesses, creating the new company Jacobs Douwe Egberts.

Emerson Process Management has acquired the Norwegian company Yggdrasil, a provider of flow assurance and production optimization software.

JBS USA Pork reached an agreement with Cargill to acquire the company’s US-based pork business for $1.45 billion.

Kraft Foods Group, Inc. shareholders voted Wednesday to approve the sale of the company to H.J. Heinz, creating one of the largest food companies in the world.

Following last week’s US District Court decision, Sysco Corporation said Monday it has terminated its merger agreement with US Foods.

International food retailers Delhaize Group and Koninklijke Ahold N.V. announced they have entered into an agreement to merge companies, creating a business that will serve 50 million people across the US and Europe each week.

A US District Court judge granted the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) request on Tuesday for a preliminary injunction to block the proposed merger between Sysco and US Foods, two of the country’s biggest food distribution companies.

Duravant, a global engineered equipment manufacturer serving the food processing, packaging and material handling sectors, said Thursday it has acquired the Spanish company Mespack, a manufacturer of flexible packaging equipment specializing in horizontal form-fill-seal technologies for flexible sachet, pouch and stick packs.