Harte Foods acquires Bako Products

20/06/05 Harte Foods, Inc., a dessert manufacturing company specializing in ingredients, food service bakery and confectionary products, announced the completion of its acquisition of Bako Products, a provider of specialty bakery desserts located in Sacramento, CA. The operating company for both Bako Products and Harte Foods, Inc. going forward will be Bako Products DBA Chalet Specialty Foods. The new consolidation marks a milestone for Chalet Specialty Foods and the market as a whole, especially customers seeking a single provider for their organic, bakery, confectionary and sweet ingredients.

Production will be consolidated into the current Bako Products North Sacramento facility with significant production improvement in both capability and capacity with automation of existing production. Products produced by the combined companies will offer customers a broad product capability in bakery including IQF cookie dough, cheesecakes, truffle cake, mousse cake, tiramisu, sheet cakes and many other gourmet desserts. The addition of chocolate coating and candy manufacturing will be part of the plant expansion. The company will also be expanding into Organic sweet desserts products with its certification in process.

Chalet Specialty Foods will soon be one of the first certified organic bakeries dealing in sweet desserts such as cakes and brownies in the market, as the plant will be certified within the next quarter.