Our Home, owner of such brands as Popchips and Food Should Taste Good, has announced it has acquired Sonoma Creamery, a Sonoma, Calif.-based manufacturer of cheese snacks. The deal expands the company into the cheese snack category and adds to its better-for-you snacking platform, the release noted.
Sonoma was founded in 1931 as a fresh cheese producer, and about a decade ago it began manufacturing crunchy cheese snacks using only rBST-free milk. The brand’s snack line includes Cheese Crisps and Cheese O’s, all gluten-free certified and high in protein.
The acquisition includes Sonoma’s production facility and warehouse in Sonoma, bringing the company’s number of manufacturing facilities across the country to eight. The transaction is the latest expansion of the business, which has been busy, having added six of those plants since January. Our Home purchased two processing plants from Utz Brands last month, and separately had acquired the RW Garcia and Good Health brands (and another three manufacturing facilities in that deal) from Utz in January.
Andy Hanacek has covered meat, poultry, bakery and snack foods as a B2B editor for nearly 20 years, and has toured hundreds of processing plants and food companies, sharing stories of innovation and technological advancement throughout the food supply chain. In 2018, he won a Folio:Eddie Award for his unique "From the Editor's Desk" video blogs, and he has brought home additional awards from Folio and ASBPE over the years. In addition, Hanacek led the Meat Industry Hall of Fame for several years and was vice president of communications for We R Food Safety, a food safety software and consulting company.
