USA: Utz Quality Foods announces Kitchen Cooked acquisition
Utz Quality Foods (Utz), the US snack firm, has announced it has acquired Illinois-based crisp maker Kitchen Cooked for an undisclosed sum. Headquartered in Farmington, IL, Kitchen Cooked is described as a leading manufacturer and distributor of snack foods serving central Illinois and eastern Iowa. Starting in the 1930s by manufacturing crisps, Kitchen Cooked has […]
USA: MegaMex Foods and Herdez to announce new licensing agreement
MegaMex Foods, a Mexican food joint venture of Herdez and Hormel Foods, has announced a new licensing agreement with UTZ Quality Foods to manufacture, market and distribute Herdez branded tortilla chips and pork rinds to retailers in the US. According to the company, the partnership between MegaMex Foods and UTZ will speed up the entry […]
USA: Utz Quality Foods to acquire Inventure Foods
Pennsylvania-based food marketer and manufacturer Utz Quality Foods has announced the acquisition of troubled snack maker Inventure Foods for $165 million. Inventure Foods, the owner of snack brand Boulder Canyon, had previously been attempting to tackle its substantial debt burden by offloading a number of business, including the sale of its frozen business to Oregon […]