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QualiTech Acquires Ellison Bakery

Aug. 21, 2024

The ingredient supplier buys the maker of baked goods and inclusion ingredients; both owned by equity firms.

QualiTech, primarily an ingredient supplier, with the backing of its private equity owner has acquired Ellison Bakery, a Fort Wayne, Ind., manufacturer of cookies, snack bars, crunches, toppings and inclusion ingredients for retail, foodservice and private label markets. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

Founded in 1945, Ellison makes customized baked ingredient solutions serving the retail, industrial and foodservice channels. The company manufactures baked inclusions, crunches, bits, cookie components and bars that are used in a variety of applications including active nutrition, frozen novelty, ice cream, yogurt and beverage. It was owned by another investment firm, Tilia Holdings LLC.

“The acquisition of Ellison advances QualiTech’s plans to strategically expand the platform’s capabilities with synergistic products and ingredient solutions and drive future growth following MidOcean Partners’ investment in the company in 2023,” today’s announcement said.

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Dave Fusaro has served as editor in chief of Food Processing magazine since 2003. Dave has 30 years experience in food & beverage industry journalism and has won several national ASBPE writing awards for his Food Processing stories. Dave has been interviewed on CNN, quoted in national newspapers and he authored a 200-page market research report on the milk industry. Formerly an award-winning newspaper reporter who specialized in business writing, he holds a BA in journalism from Marquette University. Prior to joining Food Processing, Dave was Editor-In-Chief of Dairy Foods and was Managing Editor of Prepared Foods.