Daily Brief Consumer: Samsonite, Pet Centric Pvt , Prefer and more

In today’s briefing:

(Mostly) Assia-Pac M&A: Alumina, Superloop, Qantm, Samsonite, ESR, APM , Adbri, CSR, Outsourcing
India pet care startup scores $15m to help first-time owners
Prefer scores US$2M funding to take its bean-free coffee brand to Philippines | e27

(Mostly) Assia-Pac M&A: Alumina, Superloop, Qantm, Samsonite, ESR, APM , Adbri, CSR, Outsourcing

I tally 54 – mostly firm, mostly Asia-Pac – transactions currently being discussed and analysed on Smartkarma. Inside is a timetable of upcoming key events for each deal.
Three new deals discussed this week on Smartkarma (possible four): Offers for Alumina (AWC AU), Superloop (SLC AU) & Qantm Intellectual (QIP AU); Samsonite (1910 HK)‘s ESR (1821 HK)‘s rumoured approaches.
Key updates took place on APM Human Services Internation (APM AU), Adbri (ABC AU), CSR Ltd (CSR AU), Weiqiao Textile Co (2698 HK), and Outsourcing Inc (2427 JP).

In India, demand for pets is on the rise – so much so that the country’s pet care market is estimated to reach US$1.9 billion by 2030. However, that also means an influx of first-time pet owners who don’t always know how to take care of their charges.
That’s where companies like Supertails come in.
An India-based pet care startup, Supertails addresses the needs of inexperienced owners by offering a holistic platform for pet care in India.

Prefer, a bean-free coffee startup in Singapore, has raised US$2 million in seed funding led by Forge Ventures.
500 Global, A*ccelerate, Better Bite Ventures, Sopoong Ventures, SEEDS Capital, Entrepreneur First, and Pickup Coffee also participated in the round.
The capital allows Prefer to make significant investments in growing the capacity of its production facility, expanding its ground coffee and ready-to-drink bottled beverages across Asia Pacific, starting with Singapore and the Philippines.

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