Wind Point Partners, a Chicago-based private equity investment firm, has signed an agreement to acquire Shearer’s Foods. The transaction is expected to close in October.
Based in Brewster, Ohio, Shearer’s is the largest producer of private-label salty snacks in North America and the largest producer of kettle-cooked potato chips in the world. Shearer’s manufactures both branded and private-label snacks for leading blue-chip retailers and contract manufactures snacks for the nation’s largest branded snack food companies.