Investment Summary

Entrepreneurial Equity Partners Invests In Salm Partners

On December 1, 2020, private equity firm Entrepreneurial Equity Partners invested in food company Salm Partners

Investment Highlights
  • This is Entrepreneurial Equity Partners’ 4th transaction in the Food sector.
  • This is Entrepreneurial Equity Partners’ 4th transaction in the United States.
  • This is Entrepreneurial Equity Partners’ 1st transaction in Wisconsin.
Investment Fate
  • Salm Partners was sold to a strategic buyer in 2024.

Investment Summary

Date 2020-12-01
Target Salm Partners
Sector Food
Investor(s) Entrepreneurial Equity Partners
Deal Type Growth Capital

Target

Salm Partners

Denmark, Wisconsin, United States
Salm Partners is a manufacturer of fully cooked sausages and premium hot dogs in the United States serving a blue-chip customer base that includes industry-leading brands. Utilizing a differentiated, co-extrusion, cook-in-package manufacturing process, Salm offers better-tasting, clean label products with extended shelf lives relative to sausages produced utilizing conventional methods. Salm Partners was founded in 2004 and is based in Denmark, Wisconsin.

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DESCRIPTION

Entrepreneurial Equity Partners is a private equity firm focused on opportunities in the food sector. Specific areas of interest include food/beverage brands, private label/contract manufacturing, foodservice, and consumer packaged goods. The Firm prefers control situations in businesses with minimum revenues of $50 million where it can commit at least $25 million of equity capital. Entrepreneurial Equity Partners is headquartered in Chicago, Illinois.


DEAL STATS #
Overall 4 of 12
Sector (Food) 4 of 10
Type (Growth Capital) 1 of 5
State (Wisconsin) 1 of 1
Country (United States) 4 of 10
Year (2020) 2 of 2
PREVIOUS DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2020-02-12 Kronos Foods

Glendale Heights, Illinois, United States

Kronos Foods is a manufacturer of gyros meat, pita bread, baklava, and other Mediterranean foods and a specialty foodservice distributor to local retail outlets as well as to restaurants, hospitals, businesses, schools, and universities. Kronos Foods was founded in 1975 and is based in Glendale Heights, Illinois.

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FOLLOWING DEAL
DATE TARGET DEAL TYPE VALUE
2021-03-02 Ya YA Foods

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Ya YA Foods is a contract manufacturer that offers a broad range of aseptic food and beverage products. Utilizing cutting-edge aseptic and hot-fill processing capabilities into both Tetra Pak carton and PET bottle packaging solutions, the company provides end-to-end packing solutions to multi-national beverage companies across North America. Ya YA Foods is based in Toronto, Ontario.

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