National gourmet food distributor adds Golden Organics to its business portfolio

A nationwide connoisseur meals distributor has purchased a Denver-area natural meals firm with plans to broaden its attain.

Florida-based Revolutionary Meals Holdings Inc. purchased Golden Organics for $1.75 million. The deal is anticipated to shut within the subsequent few weeks, stated Invoice Bennett, CEO of Revolutionary Meals. Golden Organics is a specialty meals distributor of predominantly natural, dry-good merchandise within the Rocky Mountain area.

Golden Organics will retain its title, Bennett stated. “I believe there are many of us within the Denver space who know and acknowledge the title, so we need to be certain that we maintain that in place.”

The corporate, which works out of a warehouse in Arvada, sells its merchandise to eating places, retailers and producers, who purchase uncooked substances. Golden Organics stated on an internet site that whereas its buying community is worldwide, the corporate buys from native and regional farmers at any time when doable.

Proprietor David Rickard, who based the corporate in Golden in 1994, is able to retire, Bennett stated. Denver native Taeshaud Jackson is the corporate’s new president. Bennett stated Jackson’s expertise contains positions at U.S. Meals, a serious distributor, Kroger and Walmart.

Bennett stated Revolutionary Meals Holdings’ aim is to broaden Golden Organics’ present employees of eight as the corporate’s merchandise achieve extra publicity in different components of the nation. Revolutionary Meals, began about 20 years in the past, companions with U.S. Meals and Sysco, one other giant meals distributor, to offer its specialty merchandise to eating places. The corporate additionally does enterprise on Amazon and on a few of its personal web sites.

More often than not, the objects supplied by means of Revolutionary Meals can be shipped immediately from distributors to clients. However a decade in the past, the corporate purchased Artisan Specialty Meals, a distribution firm in Chicago that gave Revolutionary Meals its first bodily footprint, Bennett stated.

“As a result of that was profitable after I got here in about 18 months in the past, we began in search of different alternatives like that to make comparable acquisitions. That’s what led us to Golden Organics,” stated Bennett, who used to go Kroger’s e-commerce enterprise.

The Denver-area firm can be an incredible addition to Revolutionary Meals’s portfolio, which now has few natural merchandise, Bennett stated. “It’s going to assist us in a short time broaden right into a set of classes that we haven’t had entry to beforehand.”

And Revolutionary Meals will be capable of assist Golden Organics attain new markets by putting its objects on the market with U.S. Meals, Sysco and different firms, Bennett stated.