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B&G Foods Sells its Don Pepino and Sclafani Brands to Violet Foods, a Portfolio Company of Amphora Equity Partners

B&G Foods Sells its Don Pepino and Sclafani Brands to Violet Foods, a Portfolio Company of Amphora Equity Partners

Business Wire27-05-2025

PARSIPPANY, N.J.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--B&G Foods, Inc. (NYSE: BGS) announced today that it has sold its Don Pepino and Sclafani brands of pizza and spaghetti sauces, crushed tomatoes, tomato puree and whole peeled tomatoes to Violet Foods LLC, a newly formed portfolio company of Amphora Equity Partners LLC. The sale included the manufacturing facility in Williamstown, New Jersey where the products are produced.
'The divestiture of the Don Pepino and Sclafani brands is consistent with our efforts to reshape our portfolio, focus on our core brands and reduce long-term debt,' said Casey Keller, President and Chief Executive Officer of B&G Foods. 'We believe that Amphora is the right owner to support the future growth of the Don Pepino and Sclafani brands.'
B&G Foods intends to use the net proceeds from the sale for the repayment of long-term debt.
The terms of the transaction were not disclosed. BofA Securities, Inc. acted as financial advisor to B&G Foods.
About B&G Foods, Inc.
Based in Parsippany, New Jersey, B&G Foods and its subsidiaries manufacture, sell and distribute high-quality, branded shelf-stable and frozen foods across the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico. With B&G Foods' diverse portfolio of more than 50 brands you know and love, including B&G, B&M, Bear Creek, Cream of Wheat, Crisco, Dash, Green Giant, Las Palmas, Le Sueur, Mama Mary's, Maple Grove Farms, New York Style, Ortega, Polaner, Spice Islands and Victoria, there's a little something for everyone. For more information about B&G Foods and its brands, please visit www.bgfoods.com.
About Amphora Equity Partners
Amphora is a private investor that makes control investments in the North American packaged food and beverage sector. The firm focuses on well-established branded products and contract manufacturing businesses in which it can support management teams to drive real value creation through operational excellence and an organic and inorganic growth strategy.
Forward-Looking Statements
Statements in this press release that are not statements of historical or current fact constitute 'forward-looking statements.' The forward-looking statements contained in this press release include, without limitation, statements related to B&G Foods' use of the net proceeds of the sale to reduce long-term debt. Such forward-looking statements involve known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other unknown factors that could cause the actual results of B&G Foods to be materially different from the historical results or from any future results expressed or implied by such forward-looking statements. In addition to statements that explicitly describe such risks and uncertainties, readers are urged to consider statements labeled with the terms 'believes,' 'belief,' 'expects,' 'projects,' 'intends,' 'anticipates,' 'assumes,' 'could,' 'should,' 'estimates,' 'potential,' 'seek,' 'predict,' 'may,' 'will' or 'plans' and similar references to future periods to be uncertain and forward-looking. Factors that may affect actual results include, without limitation: B&G Foods' substantial leverage, which may impact B&G Foods' ability, among other things, to fund capital expenditures, working capital needs, dividend payments and acquisitions, and to obtain refinancing or additional financing; B&G Foods' ability to comply with the ratios or tests under its long-term debt agreements, including the maximum leverage ratio and minimum interest coverage ratio under its credit agreement, which may be affected not only by B&G Foods' operating performance but also by events beyond B&G Foods' control, including prevailing economic, financial and industry conditions; the effects of international trade disputes, tariffs, quotas, and other import or export restrictions on B&G Foods' procurement, sales and operations (including recent U.S. tariffs imposed or threatened to be imposed on China, Canada and Mexico and other countries and retaliatory actions taken or threatened to be taken by such countries); the effects of rising costs for and/or decreases in supply of B&G Foods' commodities, ingredients, packaging, other raw materials, distribution and labor; crude oil prices and their impact on distribution, packaging and energy costs; B&G Foods' ability to successfully implement sales price increases and cost saving measures to offset any cost increases; intense competition, changes in consumer preferences, demand for B&G Foods' products and local economic and market conditions; B&G Foods' continued ability to promote brand equity successfully, to anticipate and respond to new consumer trends, to develop new products and markets, to broaden brand portfolios in order to compete effectively with lower priced products and in markets that are consolidating at the retail and manufacturing levels and to improve productivity; the ability of B&G Foods and its supply chain partners to continue to operate manufacturing facilities, distribution centers and other work locations without material disruption, and to procure ingredients, packaging and other raw materials when needed despite disruptions in the supply chain or labor shortages; the impact pandemics or disease outbreaks, may have on B&G Foods' business, including among other things, B&G Foods' supply chain, manufacturing operations or workforce and customer and consumer demand for B&G Foods' products; B&G Foods' ability to recruit and retain senior management and a highly skilled and diverse workforce at B&G Foods' corporate offices, manufacturing facilities and other work locations despite a very tight labor market and changing employee expectations as to fair compensation, an inclusive and diverse workplace, flexible working and other matters; the risks associated with the possible expansion of B&G Foods' business through acquisitions or reduction in size through divestitures; B&G Foods' possible inability to successfully complete divestitures of non-core businesses to sharpen its focus, improve margins, reduce costs and reduce its long-term debt, and, if completed, B&G Foods' possible inability to achieve the expected margin improvements, cost savings and debt reduction; B&G Foods' possible inability to identify new acquisitions or to integrate recent or future acquisitions or B&G Foods' failure to realize anticipated revenue enhancements, cost savings or other synergies from recent or future acquisitions; B&G Foods' ability to successfully complete the integration of recent or future acquisitions into B&G Foods' enterprise resource planning (ERP) system; tax reform and legislation, including the effects of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the Inflation Reduction Act, the U.S. Tax Cuts and Jobs Act and the U.S. CARES Act, and any future tax reform or legislation; B&G Foods' ability to access the credit markets and B&G Foods' borrowing costs and credit ratings, which may be influenced by credit markets generally and the credit ratings of B&G Foods' competitors; unanticipated expenses, including, without limitation, litigation or legal settlement expenses; the effects of currency movements of the Canadian dollar and the Mexican peso as compared to the U.S. dollar; future impairments of B&G Foods' goodwill, other intangible assets, and tangible assets, such as property, plant, equipment or inventory, which impairments may be triggered if operating results for any of B&G Foods' brands deteriorate at rates in excess of its current projections, B&G Foods' market capitalization declines or discount rates change, even if due to macroeconomic factors, or may be triggered by divestitures if divestiture proceeds are less than the book value of the assets being divested; B&G Foods' ability to protect information systems against, or effectively respond to, a cybersecurity incident, other disruption or data leak; B&G Foods' ability to successfully implement B&G Foods' sustainability initiatives and achieve B&G Foods' sustainability goals, and changes to environmental laws and regulations; B&G Foods' ability to successfully adopt and utilize new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, including machine learning and generative artificial intelligence; and other factors that affect the food industry generally, including: recalls if products become adulterated or misbranded, liability if product consumption causes injury, ingredient disclosure and labeling laws and regulations and the possibility that consumers could lose confidence in the safety and quality of certain food products; competitors' pricing practices and promotional spending levels; fluctuations in the level of B&G Foods' customers' inventories and credit and other business risks related to B&G Foods' customers operating in a challenging economic and competitive environment; and the risks associated with third-party suppliers and co-packers, including the risk that any failure by one or more of B&G Foods' third-party suppliers or co-packers to comply with food safety or other laws and regulations may disrupt B&G Foods' supply of raw materials or certain finished goods products or injure B&G Foods' reputation. The forward-looking statements contained herein are also subject generally to other risks and uncertainties that are described from time to time in B&G Foods' filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including under Item 1A, 'Risk Factors' in B&G Foods' most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K and in its subsequent reports on Forms 10-Q and 8-K. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date they are made. B&G Foods undertakes no obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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