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CASE STUDY: ARCA CONTINENTAL

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Arca Continental Acquired Wise

Arca Continental Acquired Wise

Arca Continental has acquired WISE Foods

TARGET

Wise Foods, Inc.

INDUSTRIES

Snacks, Food & Beverage

TRANSACTION TYPE

Buy-Side Advisory

GEOGRAPHY

Northeastern, USA

SITUATION

Seale & Associates acted as exclusive financial advisor to Arca Continental (BMV: AC) with the mandate to help grow their snacks business portfolio by acquiring a platform business in the U.S. market to maximize growth opportunities.

OUTCOME

Seale completed a thorough screening of the potential universe of snack food companies that would align with Arca Continental’s strategy. Where we pre-qualified each potential target and initiated transaction discussions with the targets that best fit Arca Continental’s strategy and investment criteria. 

The process resulted in the acquisition of Wise Foods, which was Arca Continental’s first and largest snack foods acquisition in the United States. The transaction provided a sizeable platform with the scale to execute an aggressive acquisition-led growth strategy within the snack category.

Seale was instrumental and offered invaluable guidance and support throughout the entire process to ensure we completed this strategic acquisition in a very short timeline

"We are very pleased to have successfully acquired Wise Foods as part of our strategy to grow our snack foods business in the United States, Mexico and throughout Latin America.Seale was instrumental and offered invaluable guidance and support throughout the entire process to ensure we completed this strategic acquisition in a very short timeline. We look forward to working with them again in the future as part of our team."

Francisco Garza Egloff
CEO at Arca Continental

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