Students take a slice of pizza in the cafeteria

Breakfast Foods Processor MBC Acquires Nardone Brothers Frozen Pizza Company

Jan. 8, 2025

Acquisition gives MBC Companies a third processing plant in Pennsylvania and immediate access to dayparts other than breakfast, where it has predominantly played for decades.

Andy Hanacek

MBC Companies (MBC), a diversified frozen breakfast company, has acquired frozen pizza manufacturer Nardone Brothers Baking Co., according to a release from MBC. Nardone makes pizzas for the K-12, private-label retail and broader foodservice channels.

The acquisition broadens MBC’s reach beyond breakfast, where it meets consumer demand for French toast sticks, waffles, pancakes, breakfast sandwiches and other baked goods. It also adds production capacity, opportunities for product innovation and sharing of best practices across another business group.

MBC, which is headquartered in McDonald, Tenn., was formed in 2022 via the merger of Murry’s and Bake Crafters, and it operates two processing plants in Lebanon, Pa. In July 2023, MBC was acquired by Chicago-based private equity firm, Entrepreneurial Equity Partners (e2p).

Nardone was founded in 1942 and is based in Wilkes-Barre, Pa., where it has a 152,000-sq.-ft. processing plant that will increase MBC’s manufacturing footprint to three plants. The third-generation pizza company employs more than 400 people, producing multi-serve round pizzas, stuffed crust, self-rising crust, French bread pizzas, breakfast pizzas and more, the release noted.

Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.

About the Author

Andy Hanacek | Senior Editor

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.