Food and Beverage
The Hunter Wise Food and Beverage Group focuses on building working relationships with food industry capital sources, suppliers and strategic partners. We specialize in meeting the needs of all mid-size food companies including manufacturers, distributors, processors, and large chain retailers. We differentiate ourselves from other investment banks because we can not only satisfy your capital requirements but also provide you operational and marketing insights that can immediately impact your business.
Our group’s professionals possess years of food company transaction experience and have facilitated numerous domestic and international deals during our team’s tenure at JP Morgan, Piper Jaffray, Riverside Company, Citigroup, UBS London and Evergreen Capital. In addition, our strategic food professionals possess extensive, hands-on experience as senior level executives at some of the industry’s largest companies such as Nestle, General Foods, Nabisco, Alliant Foodservice and Circle K Stores.
Our Food and Beverage investment banking services include the following:
  • Strategic advisory services for growth from industry experts who have years of collective operating experience
  • Buy side representations for former CEO's of major food industry companies
  • Buy side retained search representations for Private Equity Groups searching for a strong platform or add-on acquisition
  • Merger, acquisition, sale and divestiture facilitation
  • Institutional capital raising in the least dilutive format for both private and public companies through a variety of institutional placements of equity, mezzanine capital and secured debt
  • A multi-disciplined approach in corporate restructurings and recapitalizations which allows our clients access to capital markets and reorganization strategies usually reserved for much larger companies
Our diverse operating history with food manufacturing, distribution, retail and large chain restaurants give us an unparalleled insight into clients' strategic plans and business operations. We can effectively evaluate and assist with competitive positioning, market development strategy, organizational structure, supply chain management and improvement of unit level economics. We also can provide clear direction to senior management to best match themselves with unique and flexible opportunities in the capital markets, as well as various stages of growth culminating in the most appropriate exit strategy.