Batory Foods announced that it has acquired Ohio-based Tri-State Companies, a food ingredients broker, distributor and logistics provider. This acquisition transforms Batory’s service offerings in the Northeast, Midwest and Southeast with the addition of Tri-State’s 100,000-sq.-ft., multi-temperature zone distribution center, the company says.
Headquartered in Mason, Ohio, family-owned Tri-State Companies began operations in 1961 specializing in selling food ingredients and offering technical formulation assistance in the Cincinnati area. The family expanded into sweeteners in 1973, and by 1994, began offering food ingredient inventory consolidation services to national food companies. Today, as a full-service ingredients provider, the company represents quality industrial suppliers of raw food materials and sells these ingredients on a brokerage and distribution basis to users in the Northeast, Midwest and Southeast across 23 states and 3 countries.