Consumer Deals 2023 in Benelux: Delivering value through consumer M&A in challenging market conditions
Consumers across the globe are facing a now well-established cost-of-living crisis – where high inflation, coupled with increasing interest rates and low economic growth are causing consumers to be careful with their purse strings.
The Belgian economy remains largely protected against the reduction in buying power, as wages are automatically indexed. However, purchasing power did decline by the end of 2022 as salary indexation takes place only once a year.
As consumers have become more cautious about their spending patterns, and debt markets have become more conservative, M&A activity has reduced.
We consider the following four factors to have played a leading part in these low volumes:
- The price gap between seller and buyer expectations
- Nervousness in debt markets driving costly leverage models
- Economic circumstances introducing risk to asset financials
- Uncertain consumer behaviours and low confidence
In our latest whitepaper we explore the impact these factors have specifically within the consumer deals in 2023 in Benelux – and what the outlook for H2 is.
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