Articles Tagged with ''acquisition''

Highlander Partners L.P., a leading middle market private investment firm based in Dallas, Texas, has announced the acquisition of Chicago Custom Foods, LLC dba Kernel Season's from VMG Partners and Brian Taylor, the founder of the company.

We are barely into the middle of January, and it’s already become clear that 2018 is going to be a whopper of a year for mergers and acquisitions. M&A’s, they call them.

Nestlé S.A. will sell its U.S. confectionery business to Ferrero Group for $2.91 billion (CHF 2.8 billion), the company announced Tuesday.

With the concluded acquisition of the Italian Pavan Group end of November 2017, the Düsseldorf engineering group GEA purchased a leading supplier of extrusion and milling technology for processing all kinds of fresh and dried pasta, pelleted snack products and breakfast cereals.

Duravant has announced that it has acquired Ohlson Packaging, a weighing, counting and filling machine manufacturer.

Colian Group's ongoing investments and targeted acquisitions had caught the eye of the European Candy Kettle Club — our Candy Industry Kettle Committee equivalent across the pond — who, in turn, nominated Jan Kolański, president of the Colian Group, for the coveted ECKC award in 2017.

Helsinki-based Raisio sold its confectionery business, which includes popular brands such as Poppets, Fox’s, XXX, Payne's Just Brazils and Pedro, as well as private-label and contract-manufactured products, for €100 million ($120 million) to Valeo Foods Ltd. on Dec. 29, 2017. The deal also includes six production plants in the U.K. and Czech Republic. 

Ashland is taking aim at the fast-growing global nutraceuticals market by combining its nutrition business with the ingredients processing expertise of recently acquired Pharmachem.

Utz Quality Foods, LLC has announced that its wholly-owned subsidiary, Heron Sub, Inc. has successfully completed its tender offer for all the outstanding shares of common stock of Inventure Foods, Inc.

NextWorld Evergreen has announced that it has acquired Alter Eco Americas PBC, a leading chocolate-centric, healthy indulgence food brand.