Keurig Dr Pepper on the Verge of Billion-Dollar Deal with JDE Peet’s

Keurig Dr Pepper (KDP) is on the verge of acquiring JDE Peet’s, the Amsterdam-based coffee company, for approximately $18 billion. This would make it one of the largest mergers in the global beverage and coffee market a reality. The goal is to separate both business units after integration – beverages and coffee will be managed separately in the future. Essentially, this means a partial unwinding of the merger between Keurig and Dr Pepper from 2018, which laid the foundation for the current corporate structure. Strong position of both companies...