Solina, a leading global partner for the food industry designing savoury ingredient solutions, has acquired W.T. Lynch Foods Limited in Canada to accelerate its expansion in the North American market.
Lynch Foods is an Ontario, Canada-based manufacturer of customized savoury and sweet culinary solutions for food service and industrial markets, generating $95M CAD (65M €) in annual sales.
The company provides table portion and kitchen bulk sizes of sauces, syrups, and dessert toppings, plus soup and gravy bases to its food service, QSR, and industrial customers.
Like Solina, Lynch Foods offers a wide range of manufacturing and packaging options providing flexibility to meet customer needs and has a commitment to unique, quality flavour solutions dating back to its founding in 1942.
By acquiring these capabilities, Solina continues the North American expansion that began with its purchase of Canadian food service leader Produits Alimentaires Berthelet in 2020.
Lynch Foods’ leadership team and the company’s 178 employees will join Solina, bringing Solina’s headcount in Canada to more than 315 and making it a major, coast-to-coast player with unique flavour solutions and manufacturing capabilities.
Solina has established leading capabilities in Canada and the United States through a series of acquisitions in recent years.
In addition to Berthelet, the savoury food leader bought Asenzya, a provider of custom, dry savoury solutions, and Saratoga Food Specialties, a leader in custom seasoning and sauce flavour solutions for foodservice chains and food manufacturers.
Solina now has four sites in the U.S. and three in Canada that complement its diversified portfolio of culinary dry and liquid ingredient solutions in Europe and enable it to stand out as an agile and customer-focused North American food solutions partner.