Performance Food Group

Performance Food Group Company (NASDAQ: PFGC) is an American company that was founded in 1875. Headquartered in Goochland County, Virginia (just outside Richmond), the company distributes a range of food products.

In 2008, the company announced it was to be acquired by Wellspring Capital Management and Blackstone Group for $1.3 billion.[1][2] Two other foodservice companies owned by the private equity firms, snack food distributor Vistar and Italian foodservice company Roma Foods, were then merged into PFG. PFG went public in 2015.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Equity Firms Acquiring Food Supplier. Bloomberg, January 19, 2008
  2. ↑ Blackstone, Wellspring to acquire Performance Food Group in $1.3bn deal. AltAssets, January 18, 2008
  3. ↑ Margin, Jonathan Maze in On the. "Performance Food Group has a modest IPO". Retrieved 2016-05-12.
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