Puratos will acquire Dawn Foods by the end of the year, subject to all required regulatory approvals. Until the transaction is complete, the two companies remain fully independent and will continue to operate separately, with no changes to their daily operations, customer relationships, or commercial arrangements, they announced in a joint release.

Puratos and Dawn Foods have developed distinct and complementary capabilities, both serving professional bakers, pastry chefs, retailers and food manufacturers by translating consumer trends and insights into ingredient solutions, they highlight. These combined capabilities would improve services offered across a wider range of bakery and sweet goods applications, beyond what either Puratos or Dawn Foods can offer alone.

With the takeover, two innovation engines would come together – Dawn Foods’ application-led expertise and Puratos’ R&D-led ingredient technology – alongside complementary production models. Dawn Foods has a large-scale, standardized manufacturing while Puratos is structured with a more flexible, tailored production. It would also connect Dawn Foods’ extensive North American distribution footprint with Puratos’ broad international subsidiary network.

“This agreement reflects a major long-term step for Puratos,” said Pierre Tossut, Chief Executive Officer of Puratos. “Dawn Foods is a highly respected company with capabilities that complement our own. The agreement shows our ambition to further expand our footprint and capabilities within a space we know well, understand deeply, and have successfully developed over generations.”

Carrie Jones-Barber, Chief Executive Officer of Dawn Foods, also shared a statement: “Dawn has grown into a global business by staying focused on what matters most – our people, our products, and the customers we serve. As we looked to the future, it was important to find a partner aligned with our values and our long-term view of the business. Like Dawn, Puratos is a family-owned company with a strong heritage and a deep commitment to people, quality, and the baking industry.”

The two family-owned companies were founded one year apart – Puratos in 1919 and Dawn Foods in 1920.

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