Mergers and Acquisitions

Packaging equipment manufacturer HayssenSandiacre, A Barry Wehmiller Company, announces the acquisition of Simionata.

ConAgra Foods, Inc. (NYSE: CAG) announced today that it has agreed to acquire National Pretzel Company, based in Lancaster, Pa., from Brookstone Holdings. National Pretzel makes private label pretzels in a variety of forms, including rods, sticks, bra...

Penford Corporation (NASDAQ: PENX), announced today that it has entered into an agreement to acquire Carolina Starches. Penford will purchase the company interests and certain assets of the businesses currently operated by Carolina Starches, LLC and Ke...

Diamond Foods, Inc. (Nasdaq:DMND) today announced that its previously announced acquisition of the Pringles snack business from The Procter &Gamble Company ("P&G") is now expected to close in the first half of calendar 2012. Diamond a...

Agri-Stor Company has acquired the assets and business operations of Custom Chemical Company - a full-service provider of potato sprout inhibitors, specialty post-harvest crop protection products and a Certified Dealer of Gellert® climate control systems

The Wachusett Potato Chip Co., the last independent potato chip company in New England, has been purchased by a Pennsylvania-based snack food company. Utz Quality Foods Inc. of Hanover, Pa., purchased the Wachusett Potato Chip Co.'s Water Street faci...

Machine manufacturer Heat and Control, Inc. has purchased Spray Dynamics, Ltd. The purchase is a continuation of Heat and Control's commitment to provide food processors with complete single-source support, and to help expand its selection of coating s...

Yum! Brands Inc. agreed to sell its Long John Silver’s restaurants to LJS Partners LLC and the A&W All-American Food chain to A Great American Brand LLC for undisclosed prices as it focuses on expanding in China. Definitive agreements have been re...

ConAgra has hinted it could step up its pursuit of Ralcorp after the US food group suffered a third rejection by its quarry of its proposal – improved to $5.2bn – to buy the company. Ralcorp said on Friday it had a rejected the latest $94 a share cash...

Snyder's-Lance, Inc. (Nasdaq-GS:LNCE) announces a new corporate logo.

La compañía Procter &Gamble vendió la división Pringles a Diamond Foods por 2.350 millones de dólares. Dicho importe comprende 1.500 millones en acciones de Diamond y el compromiso de liquidar una deuda de 850 millones de Pringles. Según los térm...

Diamond Foods, Inc. (NASDAQ:DMND - News) and The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG - News) today announced the signing of a definitive agreement to merge the Pringles business ("Pringles") into Diamond Foods in a transaction valued at $2....

Missourians can once again claim their state as the home of one of the world’s largest potato chips.

Deep River Snacks, a product of the Old Lyme Gourmet Co., completed a $4 million offering with investment from Southbury, Conn.-based Najeti Ventures.

Bite-sized snacks are big business. While Wall Street focuses its attention on makers of semiconductor chips and movers of casino chips to make its money, companies that manufacture snack foods are busy building their fortunes through potato chips, pr...

Wendy's/Arby's Group, Inc. (NYSE: WEN), the third-largest quick-service restaurant company in the United States, today announced it is exploring strategic alternatives for Arby's Restaurant Group, Inc., including a sale of the brand.

Arby’s, the 3,700-unit chain that is under strategic review by parent company Wendy’s/Arby’s Group Inc., may fetch a price tag of more than $300 million, according to a few securities analysts who cover the company.

um! Brands Inc. said Tuesday it planned to sell Long John Silver’s and A&W All-American Food in order to focus on its three larger quick-service brands.