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Fairmount Food Group

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Founded
  
2003

Parent organization
  
Saputo Inc.

Headquarters
  
Dallas, Texas, United States

Subsidiaries
  
DCI Cheese Company, Swissrose International, Inc., G & G Specialty Foods, Inc., Green Bay Cheese Company, Inc.

Fairmount Food Group, LLC (FFG) is a food industrial company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. The company was established in 2003 by Bing Graffunder (CEO) and Sam Hillin (CFO). The company began with an initial $200 million in equity financing from GTCR Golder Rauner. The purpose of the company is to acquire growth companies in the industry.

Companies

As of 2007, the portfolio of companies (all of them being specialty and deli-style cheese companies) which continue to operate under their own identities include:

  • DCI Cheese Company (acquired April 2005),
  • Green Bay Cheese Company (acq. February 2006),
  • G&G Foods (acq. June 2006),
  • Swissrose International (acq. August 2006)
  • Advantage Foods (Advantage International Foods Corporation, acquired from ConAgra, Omaha, Nebraska in September 2007).

    • Other acquisitions include Carter/Meister LLC (a supplier for DCI Cheese). These acquisitions have made Fairmount Food Group one of the largest importers and marketers of specialty and deli-style cheese in the United States.

    References

    Fairmount Food Group Wikipedia
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