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Food broker Hanson Faso buys Cheese and Deli Sales

By  Sun-Times staff
   
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Food brokerage Hanson Faso Sales & Marketing Inc. has acquired Cheese and Deli Sales Inc.

Lombard-based Hanson Faso says acquiring the Elmhurst company will expand its retail perishable and premium food service businesses. Financial terms weren’t released.

“Both of our companies have a lifelong commitment to developing and managing the market for premium and natural foods,” Hanson Faso president Stewart Reich said in a news release.

The company will be headquartered in newly constructed space in Lombard that includes a test and demonstration kitchen.

Hanson Faso has retail and food service clients in 22 states.

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