PAK Quality Foods Acquires Formosa Foods
July 23, 2025
Fort Worth-based PAK Quality Foods has acquired the assets of Las Colinas International Inc. (Formosa Foods), a Dallas family-owned foodservice distributor, expanding PAK's product mix and geographic reach across Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana and Arkansas. The Formosa owners, Jesse and Weldon Chang, will continue to lead the business and have made an investment in PAK; the move builds on PAK's expansion under PE owner Cross Rapids Capital.
- Buyers
- PAK Quality Foods, Cross Rapids Capital
- Targets
- Formosa Foods (Las Colinas International Inc.)
- Sellers
- Las Colinas International Inc. (Formosa Foods), Jesse Chang, Weldon Chang
- Platforms
- PAK Quality Foods
- Industry
- Food & Beverage
- Location
- Texas, United States
- Transaction Type
- Addon
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