Baking & Snacks – INVESTMENTS, FUNDING & M&A

The legally binding divestiture package serves as the mandatory structural remedy required to clear Vandemoortele’s acquisition of French frozen bakery peer Délifrance.

Roskam Foods will close its San Dimas, California, cereal and granola plant as the company brings production together at its Grand Rapids campus.

The two developments form part of Döhler’s broader growth strategy, aimed at bringing production, technical expertise and customer support closer to key food, beverage and life science and nutrition markets.

The new line has been installed at the company’s Weston Road site in Crewe, increasing its overall cookie production capacity by more than 30%.

The company plans to invest around €500m (US$576.3m) across the sites in Belgium, the US and Thailand by 2030.