CK Snacks (Cheeze Kurls LLC) has acquired Keystone Food Products Inc., a snack food manufacturer and co-packer based in Easton, Pennsylvania, expanding the Grand Rapids-based private label snack platform to three manufacturing facilities across complementary geographies.
Keystone, founded in 1946, specializes in masa and cooked corn tortilla chips, corn chips, baked and fried extruded snacks, die-cut and random-shaped snacks, party mixes, pellets and natural and organic snack lines. The Easton facility adds Eastern U.S. manufacturing capacity to a platform that already includes CK Snacks’ Michigan operations and Axium Foods, an Illinois-based private label snack manufacturer.
CK Snacks CEO Jamie Colbourne said the acquisition advances both the geographic and product dimensions of the company’s growth strategy.
“We are very excited about the addition of Keystone to our snacking platform. This acquisition helps build out both our geographic reach and our portfolio of products, allowing us to better serve our customers and continue our growth trajectory,” Colbourne said.
Keystone will continue operating from its Easton facility. CK Snacks plans to leverage shared capabilities across sales, finance, procurement and operations to drive efficiency and growth across the combined platform.
About the companies
CK Snacks was founded in 1964 and focuses on private label fried and baked extruded products, popcorn and natural and organic snacks for major retailers and food companies across North America. Keystone has served the snack food industry since 1946, operating a state-of-the-art production facility with a customer base spanning North America. The combined three-site platform is positioned to offer scale, flexibility and manufacturing expertise across a broad range of snack categories.