Industries > Food & Ingredients
Food & Ingredients
These are highly fragmented industries, challenged by positive as well as negative trends: healthy foods, food safety issues, increased interest in specialty foods, organic foods, consolidation of distributors, and many emerging brands.
Other than specialty niche segments, overall organic growth has been modest, forcing many participants to fuel growth through acquisitions and initiatives in specialty foods or ethnic food tastes.
Corporate Fuel has been active in these industry segments:
- Specialty food products
- Food distribution
- Food importers
- Food manufacturers
- Food and pharmaceutical ingredients
- Flavors, fragrances and essential oils
Recent Food & Ingredients Transactions
White Coffee
Sell-side Advisor
Acted as exclusive financial advisor to White Coffee on two concurrent transactions: the sale of its Branded Coffee and Private Label segment, including a portfolio of licensed brands, to Fresh Brew Group, and the sale of its Direct Store Delivery (DSD) and local food service business to Lacas Coffee Company. Based in the Astoria neighborhood of Queens, New York, White Coffee has provided coffee roasting and co-packing services since 1939.
Calico Cottage
Sell-side Advisor
Acted as exclusive financial advisor to Calico Cottage on the sale of the Company to Chaver Capital Partners. Calico is the country's leading manufacturer of fudge ingredients and a supplier of other confectionery products, equipment, packaging and merchandising. Over its 60+ years in business, Calico has helped thousands of retailers establish successful made-in-store fudge programs.
Gellert Global Group
Buy-side Advisor
Acted as financial advisor to Gellert Global Group (GGG) in the evaluation and structuring of the acquisition of Heartisan Foods. GGG is a family of leading specialty food import businesses with combined revenues exceeding $1.7 billion. Heartisan is a manufacturer and distributor of branded and private-label cheese products, headquartered in Barron, Wisconsin.
