Tracked deals
5
5 tracked deals across 2018-2025.
Operating Company
Consumer
Dessert Holdings
St. Paul, Minnesota, United States
Dessert Holdings is North America’s leading premium dessert company, providing scratch-made desserts at scale for retail and foodservice partners, and operating an umbrella of premium dessert brands.
- Focus Areas
- Frozen desserts, Bakery / confections, Cheesecakes
- Website
- dessertholdings.com
Recent pace
0
0 tracked deals announced in the last 12 months.
Deal mix
Addon
4 addon · 1 buyout
Dessert Holdings Acquisition Volume by Year
Last 4 years
Supporting Data
Recent Transactions
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July 14, 2025
- Buyer
- Dessert Holdings
- Target
- Willamette Valley Pie Company
- Industry
- Food & Beverage
- Location
- Oregon, United States
- Type
- Addon
Dessert Holdings, a St. Paul-based premium dessert platform, has acquired Willamette Valley Pie Company, a family-owned maker of hand-crafted fruit pies and desserts headquartered in Silverton, Oregon. The add-on acquisition expands Dessert Holdings' scratch-made, clean-label dessert portfolio and aims to bolster retail relationships and drive growth across retail and foodservice channels; financial terms were not disclosed.
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- Buyer
- Dessert Holdings, Bain Capital
- Target
- Kenny's Great Pies
- Seller
- Kaho Partners
- Industry
- Food & Beverage
- Location
- Georgia, United States
- Type
- Addon
Dessert Holdings, a premium-dessert platform owned by Bain Capital, has acquired Kenny's Great Pies from Kaho Partners. The acquisition adds Kenny's clean-label, cream-based pies and manufacturing capacity (33,000 sq ft facility in Smyrna, Georgia) to Dessert Holdings' portfolio to expand product offerings and distribution across retail, club and foodservice channels; terms were not disclosed.
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- Buyer
- Dessert Holdings
- Target
- Dianne's Fine Desserts
- Seller
- Geneva Glen Capital
- Industry
- Food & Beverage
- Location
- Massachusetts, United States
- Type
- Buyout
Dessert Holdings, North America's premium dessert company, has acquired Dianne's Fine Desserts from Geneva Glen Capital. The acquisition, terms undisclosed, expands Dessert Holdings' product assortment in the foodservice channel; Dianne's CEO Mike Knowles and President Dan Scales will be retiring as part of the transaction.
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January 3, 2022
- Buyer
- Dessert Holdings, Bain Capital Private Equity
- Target
- Steven Charles — A Dessert Company
- Seller
- Steven Fabos, Charles Kosmont
- Industry
- Food & Beverage
- Location
- Colorado, United States
- Type
- Addon
Dessert Holdings, the North American premium dessert platform, has acquired Steven Charles — A Dessert Company, a gourmet dessert manufacturer based in Aurora, Colorado. The business will remain led by President Rebecca O'Hara and will leverage Dessert Holdings' scale (and backing from Bain Capital Private Equity) to accelerate domestic growth and pursue broader expansion; financial terms were not disclosed.
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- Buyer
- Dessert Holdings, Gryphon Investors
- Target
- Atlanta Cheesecake Company
- Industry
- Food & Beverage
- Location
- Georgia, United States
- Type
- Addon
Dessert Holdings, a holding company formed by private equity firm Gryphon Investors, has acquired Atlanta Cheesecake Company (ACC), a Kennesaw, Georgia-based manufacturer of frozen desserts and cheesecakes. The acquisition brings ACC into Dessert Holdings' portfolio (which includes The Original Cakerie and Lawler's Desserts) to expand product offerings and distribution into retail grocery and foodservice channels across North America.
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Food & Beverage Buyers & Acquisitions
5 tracked deals by Dessert Holdings.
Acquisitions in Georgia
2 tracked deals by Dessert Holdings.
Acquisitions in Colorado
1 tracked deal by Dessert Holdings.
Acquisitions in Massachusetts
1 tracked deal by Dessert Holdings.
Acquisitions in Oregon
1 tracked deal by Dessert Holdings.
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