WAUKEGAN, Ill. — Woodland Foods, LTD and Graham Associates, Inc. today introduced that Graham Companions has come to be a greater part trader in Woodland Foods.
Woodland Foods is an set up leader in giving specialty food stuff ingredients and ground breaking culinary products to the foodstuff assistance, industrial, and retail sectors for more than 30 several years. “Diana and I are extremely very pleased of the just one-of-a-variety source we have crafted, inspiring culinary professionals throughout the U.S., whilst dealing with constant advancement throughout the a long time,” said David Moore, founder of Woodland Foodstuff. “Graham Companions delivers considerable expertise doing the job across the foods business and will present sturdy aid to accelerate Woodland Foods’ major progress.”
“Woodland Foodstuff supplies Graham Partners with a exceptional opportunity to devote in a company with a very well-proven offer chain across five continents and prolonged-phrase relationships with marquee buyers throughout all channels of the food items organization,” stated Andrew Snyder, Taking care of Principal at Graham Associates. “We share a determination to company, high quality, protection, and a spirit of innovation that are embodied by Woodland Meals and its tenured staff and consider that jointly we will elevate our situation as believed leaders, fueling multiple traits in the globe of foods, when increasing substantially in the several years to come.”
Woodland Foods’ administration team and employees will keep on being in position and hope a seamless integration.
Lincoln Worldwide acted as the monetary advisor to Woodland Foodstuff and Vedder Price tag P.C. served as the lawful advisor to Woodland Foods in this transaction.
About Woodland Foods
Woodland Food items is a premier importer and company of more than 1,800 specialty culinary substances and items from above 65 international locations all around the environment. Woodland Foods sells less than the brand name DG (D’allesandro Gourmet) in the foods company channel, less than Curious Spoon and Epicurean Specialty in the retail channel, and underneath Woodland Substances in the industrial manufacturing channel. Woodland Meals specializes in furnishing a just one-stop-store resource for globally sourced specialty culinary components and merchandise, a robust products innovation system as effectively as custom blending, processing, and packing.
About Graham Companions
Graham Companions is a personal financial investment agency centered on investing in technologies-driven firms that are spurring innovation in sophisticated production, ensuing in product or service substitutions, uncooked products conversions, and disruptions to classic conclude markets. Graham Companions can offer you management or minority money alternatives and typically targets firms with EBITDA up to $50 million. Given that the firm’s founding in 1988 by Steven Graham, Graham Companions has shut more than 130 acquisitions, joint ventures, financings, and divestitures. The dedicated cash lifted considering that inception by the Graham Associates resources alongside one another with Graham-led co-investments totals approximately $3.5 billion, which differs from Regulatory Assets Below Administration. Investors consist of higher-net-value people, college or university and university endowments, foundations, public and personal pension ideas, resources-of-money, and other institutional buyers. Centered in suburban Philadelphia, the business has accessibility to intensive running resources and industrial know-how and is a member of The Graham Team, an alliance of unbiased working enterprises, investment firms and philanthropic entities, which all share in the typical legacy of entrepreneur Donald Graham.
