Flywheel Partners Acquires Freshcut Foods from Perwyn

Whitsons Culinary Group Acquires Fresh Picks Café, LLC

February 26, 2024

Restaurants & Hospitality

Whitsons Culinary Group, a portfolio company of GenNx360 Capital Partners, has acquired Fresh Picks Café LLC, a Manchester, New Hampshire-based provider of outsourced food service management to more than 50 K-12 schools and summer camp locations. The acquisition expands Whitsons' presence in the New England market; Fresh Picks' regional leadership team will remain in place as part of Whitsons.

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.

Perwyn Acquires Barfer's Wellfood

December 1, 2021

Food & Beverage

Perwyn has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Berlin-based raw pet food maker Barfer's Wellfood. The investment will support Barfer's growth as a D2C leader in the premium raw (BARF) pet-food segment and leverage Perwyn's experience in scaling direct-to-consumer businesses.

Perwyn Invests £30m in Gousto

July 1, 2019

Food & Beverage

Perwyn led a £30 million funding round in Gousto to support the UK's leading subscription meal-kit supplier as it scales operations. The capital will be used to expand automated production and data-science capabilities to drive growth in the UK recipe-box market.

Wheatsheaf (via TriStrata) Acquires 90% of Purfresh

February 7, 2019

Agriculture

Wheatsheaf Group Limited, through its wholly owned food-safety subsidiary TriStrata Group, has acquired a 90% stake in Purfresh, a provider of controlled-atmosphere systems and cloud-based cold-chain monitoring for refrigerated ocean shipping containers. The acquisition will provide funding to accelerate global rollout of Purfresh's Intellipur monitoring software and atmosphere technologies to reduce spoilage and improve food safety in perishable cargo shipments.

Arable Capital Partners & Fresh Innovations Acquire Farmington Fresh Cuts

June 7, 2018

Food & Beverage

Arable Capital Partners has acquired Farmington Fresh Cuts and will merge the business into its portfolio company, Fresh Innovations. The deal transfers the family-owned fresh-cut fruit processor (founded by the Rajkovich family) into Arable’s platform to expand Fresh Innovations’ sliced/packaged fruit capacity and distribution to school, retail and foodservice customers across the region.