Fairmount Food Group
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Fairmount Food Group, LLC[1] (FFG) is a food industrial company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Established in 2003 by Bing Graffunder (CEO) and Sam Hillin (CFO), the company began with an initial $200 million in equity financing from GTCR Golder Rauner with the purpose of buying out growth companies in the industry.[2]
Companies
[edit]As of 2007[update], the portfolio of companies (all of them being specialty and deli-style cheese companies) which continue to operate under their own identities include:[3]
- DCI Cheese Company (acquired April 2005), (sold 2011)
- Green Bay Cheese Company (acq. February 2006),
- G&G Foods (acq. June 2006),
- Swissrose International (acq. August 2006[4])
- Advantage Foods (Advantage International Foods Corporation, acquired from ConAgra, Omaha, Nebraska in September 2007[5]).
Other acquisitions include Carter/Meister LLC[5] (a supplier for DCI Cheese[6]). These acquisitions have made Fairmount Food Group one of the largest importers and marketers of specialty and deli-style cheese in the United States.[7]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ FFG home page Archived 2008-05-16 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "GTCR Provides $200 Million Equity Commitment to Start Fairmount Food Group, LLC", Business Wire, May 8, 2003
- ^ "FFG portfolio". Archived from the original on 2007-03-01. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-01-06. Retrieved 2008-01-28.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ a b News – Advantage International Foods Corporation
- ^ DCI Cheese Company | Our Story Archived 2008-01-14 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Industry News" Archived 2008-02-29 at the Wayback Machine, Gourmet Retailer Magazine, December 01, 2007