TreeHouse completes $187 mln buy of TorQuest-backed Associated Brands
Oak Brook, Ill.-based TreeHouse Foods Inc (NYSE: THS) has completed its buy of Associated Brands, a manufacturer and supplier of private-label dry blend food and household products, for $187 million. The seller in the transaction was Canadian private equity firm TorQuest Partners, which invested in the Mississauga, Ontario-based Associated Brands in 2005, and took the company private in 2007. Canadian law firm Torys LLP advised TorQuest on the TreeHouse purchase. TorQuest was profiled by peHUB Canada following last month's $535 million final close of TorQuest Partners Fund III.
9 October 2013•2 mins read
