FreshEdge (Wind Point Partners) Acquires Kimball & Thompson Produce (KT Produce)

FreshEdge Acquires Frontier Produce

July 25, 2024

Food & Beverage

FreshEdge, a Wind Point Partners-backed super-regional fresh food distributor, acquired Frontier Produce, a three-facility fresh produce distributor based in Oklahoma. The add-on expands FreshEdge's geographic footprint westward (complementing its KT Produce acquisition) and adds capacity to better serve restaurants, hotels, school systems and other foodservice customers across Oklahoma and southwest Missouri.

FreshEdge (Wind Point-backed) Acquires Western Sky Produce

July 18, 2024

Food & Beverage

FreshEdge, a Wind Point Partners–backed super-regional fresh food distributor, acquired Western Sky Produce, a Salinas, California–based fresh produce service provider. The acquisition strengthens FreshEdge's vertical integration and consolidated procurement, distribution and logistics capabilities and brings Western Sky's founders and team into the FreshEdge platform.

Wind Point Partners Acquires FreshEdge

October 4, 2022

Food & Beverage

Chicago-based private equity firm Wind Point Partners has acquired FreshEdge, a leading independent fresh food distributor, from Rotunda Capital Partners. FreshEdge’s existing management team will remain in place and Wind Point will provide capital to expand fresh-cut processing capabilities, warehouse space, infrastructure and pursue strategic acquisitions to grow density across the Midwest and Southeast.

FreshEdge (backed by Rotunda Capital Partners) Acquires Valley Produce

July 1, 2021

Food & Beverage

FreshEdge, a family of produce and specialty food distributors backed by Rotunda Capital Partners, has acquired Valley Produce, a fresh-produce distributor operating near Knoxville, Tennessee. The deal (closed June 30, 2021; terms undisclosed) is an add-on to the FreshEdge platform to expand its presence in eastern Tennessee and the broader southeastern U.S.; Valley will continue operating from its current facility with Mark Stansberry remaining as president.

FreshEdge (Wind Point-backed) Acquires Greenberg Fruit Company

November 2, 2023

Food & Beverage

FreshEdge, a Wind Point Partners–backed super-regional fresh food distributor, acquired Greenberg Fruit Company, a specialty produce distributor headquartered in Omaha, Nebraska. The deal expands FreshEdge's Midwest footprint westward, strengthening its supply chain and fresh-cut processing capabilities to better serve foodservice and retail customers in Nebraska and western Iowa.

FreshEdge Acquires Panama Banana

May 23, 2023

Food & Beverage

FreshEdge, a Wind Point Partners-backed super-regional fresh food distributor, has acquired Panama Banana, a long-standing wholesaler and distributor of fine produce based in the Chicago International Produce Market. The deal expands FreshEdge's Midwest footprint—particularly in Chicago—and adds warehousing capacity and value‑added ripening and cold‑chain capabilities to better serve combined retail and foodservice customers.