RIDGEFIELD, Conn., Feb. 25, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The Chefs' Warehouse, Inc. (NASDAQ: CHEF), a premier distributor of specialty food products in North America, today announced that it has acquired substantially all of the assets of Bassian Farms, Inc., based in San Jose, CA. Founded in 1995, Bassian Farms is a specialty protein manufacturer and distributor in the metro San Francisco area.
“I would like to welcome the entire Bassian Farms organization, including founders Dan and Lee Bassian, into our growing family of companies,” said Christopher Pappas, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Company. “We believe that this acquisition further enhances our ability to deliver quality protein products while optimizing our existing production and distribution capacity in Northern California.”
For over 25 years, Bassian Farms has supplied Northern California’s restaurants with high quality beef, poultry, pork, and seafood products. It pioneered the effort to bring natural, sustainable, local, and antibiotic-free meat and poultry to the San Francisco Bay Area’s chefs.
“We are a family company with a focus on providing quality and service to our customers. Chefs’ Warehouse shares these values and will help us to expand upon our customer-centric business model,” said Dan Bassian, Co-Founder of Bassian Farms.
Bassian Farms is expected to generate approximately $50.0 million in annualized net sales. Other terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
About The Chefs’ Warehouse
The Chefs’ Warehouse, Inc. (http://www.chefswarehouse.com) is a premier distributor of specialty food products in the United States and Canada focused on serving the specific needs of chefs who own and/or operate some of the nation’s leading menu-driven independent restaurants, fine dining establishments, country clubs, hotels, caterers, culinary schools, bakeries, patisseries, chocolatiers, cruise lines, casinos and specialty food stores. The Chefs’ Warehouse, Inc. carries and distributes more than 55,000 products to more than 34,000 customer locations throughout the United States and Canada.
