giorgio10

As I mentioned in my previous post, it is a conglomerate merger since the first-ever food unit was acquired by a diversifying conglomerate (clothing company at that point in time). It did not have another food company buying another food company to begin with. If an actual food company acquired food company, you can consider this as a horizontal merger. Please note that having a Food holding company does not make you enter the Food industry, as you do not have any actual Food assets.
On your last query, just think about who would be the acquirer and who would be the target. That should give you a better picture of what type of merger it would be, as mentioned in my original post.