Middleby: Acquires Gorreri Food Processing Technology

Elgin / IL. (tmc) The Middleby Corporation, a leading worldwide manufacturer of equipment for the commercial foodservice, food processing, and residential kitchen industries, has announced the acquisition of Gorreri Food Processing Technology based outside Parma, Italy. Gorreri is a leading manufacturer of equipment for the baked goods industry, including cakes, pies, muffins, tarts and other desert line solutions. The company operates in a state-of-the-art, 50,000-square-foot facility, which was recently expanded to accommodate growth. Gorreri has revenues of USD 20 million annually.

Middleby CEO Tim FitzGerald: «Gorreri is a highly respected brand recognized worldwide for premium-quality advanced industrial and semi-industrial baked goods solutions. This acquisition adds a broad line of complementary products to our food processing group, including turbo mixers, dosing, injecting, decorating, enrobing and ultrasonic portioning solutions. The Gorreri innovative end-to-end solutions extend and significantly strengthen the current Middleby offerings as a leader in the cake and desert categories, with meaningful growth synergies.»