Ronin Equity Partners acquires three specialty cheese companies
The newly created company will be a platform for specialty cheese, cured meat and charcuterie.
New York-based Ronin Equity Partners said it acquired Red Apple Cheese (a producer of smoked, flavored and kosher specialty cheeses), Barron County Cheese (a major smoker and copacker for the specialty cheese industry), and Cheese Brothers (an ieCommerce specialty cheese business). The combined company will be an omni-channel and vertically integrated market leader in smoked, flavored and kosher cheese, as well as an independent brand consolidator in a fragmented U.S. premium cheese and charcuterie market.
“We’re creating a powerful combination of ambitious companies — steeped in family-owned Wisconsin and New England traditions — and Ronin, which has the operational and market expertise in the cheese and consumer packaged goods space to turbocharge growth,” said Gene Graf, co-founder of Cheese Brothers and Barron County Cheese.