NEW YORK - Family-owned food companies are stocking up on U.S. snack companies, which are warming to the idea of private backers - many of them overseas - that can help them weather the storm in the supermarket aisles.
Last week, Hanover, Pennsylvania-based potato chip maker Utz agreed to be taken private by Germany's Intersnack Group along with Utz's founding families. The nearly $3 billion transaction marks the first U.S. deal for Intersnack, a subsidiary of family-owned food conglomerate Pfeifer & Langen.