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Wingreens World Acquires Safe Harvest to Scale Pesticide-Free Food in India

May 11, 2026

Food & Beverage

Wingreens World, the parent company of Wingreens Farms and Raw Pressery, has acquired Safe Harvest, a leading pesticide-free food brand in India. The deal is aimed at scaling the natural farming movement by combining Safe Harvest’s farmer network with Wingreens World’s distribution, resources, and platform infrastructure; financial terms were not disclosed.

AgroFresh Acquires Pace International LLC

March 27, 2024

Agriculture

AgroFresh Solutions, Inc. has acquired Pace International LLC from Valent BioSciences LLC, expanding AgroFresh’s post‑harvest solutions portfolio and strengthening its presence in key fruit‑growing regions in North and South America. The deal pairs Pace’s edible coatings, fungicides, storage treatments and application equipment with AgroFresh’s global scale and will be complemented by a strategic collaboration between AgroFresh and Valent BioSciences to accelerate innovation.

Paine Schwartz Partners Takes AgroFresh Private

April 3, 2023

Agriculture

Paine Schwartz Partners has completed a go-private acquisition of AgroFresh Solutions, Inc., acquiring the company’s outstanding public shares and delisting it from NASDAQ. The transaction gives AgroFresh a private ownership structure intended to strengthen its financial foundation and support expansion initiatives, innovation investment, and its mission to reduce food waste across the fresh produce supply chain.

Peterson Farms Acquires Fresh Innovations from Arable Capital Partners

December 13, 2022

Food & Beverage

Peterson Farms has acquired Fresh Innovations California from Arable Capital Partners and Alpine Pacific Capital. The transaction, which completes Arable’s investment in Fresh Innovations, will boost Peterson Farms’ fresh-cut processing and distribution capabilities for customers (notably K-12 schools) across the U.S.

GrubMarket Acquires Best Fresh Produce, Inc.

October 22, 2020

Food & Beverage

GrubMarket has completed the acquisition of Best Fresh Produce, Inc., a Los Angeles–based fresh fruit and vegetable supplier founded in 2007. The deal expands GrubMarket's presence in the Los Angeles market and gives Best Fresh Produce access to GrubMarket's WholesaleWare SaaS platform while remaining based in Los Angeles under its existing management team.

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.