Kettle Cuisine – a company that produces refrigerated and frozen all-natural soups – has acquired Harry’s Fresh Foods, a manufacturer of frozen and refrigerated entrées, sides, soups, and desserts.
“Harry’s is a great business and a welcome addition to Kettle Cuisine. Its strong reputation in the marketplace reflects its high caliber team members, customer relationships, and premium product portfolio, all of which fit seamlessly into Kettle’s growth strategy. Acquiring Harry’s will bring an expanded manufacturing footprint to Kettle Cuisine and further enhance our ability to deliver on that promise,” said Liam McClennon, CEO of Kettle Cuisine.
Kettle Cuisine is a company of Kainos Capital, a private equity firm with extensive experience in the food and consumer products space. Kainos acquired Kettle back in 2015, and since then more than USD300m have been invested to acquire and integrate complementary businesses, expand cooking capacity and add high-speed filling and packaging equipment.
“The addition of Harry’s – together with prior acquisitions and investments in the areas of production capacity, product extensions, and automation, are all in line with this strategy. Kainos will continue to support additional opportunities to invest behind Kettle Cuisine’s growth strategy going forward,” said Dan Hopkin, partner at Kainos Capital.
