Chocolate Inn/Taylor & Grant (PPAI 111662) has acquired San Jose, California, supplier Private Label Executive Gifts, Inc. This acquisition marks Chocolate Inn/Taylor & Grant’s fifth acquisition in the promotional food gifts category.
Private Label Executive Gifts offers Jelly Belly branded products, unique mint tins and shaped mint products, and has been an industry food vendor since 1998.
“We are very excited to announce the acquisition of Private Label,” says Lance Stier, a principal of Hicksville, New York-based Chocolate Inn/Taylor & Grant. “The acquisition helps expand our promotional food business, adds a number of very exciting new customer relationships, further grows some of our existing customer relationships and broadens our selection of products, including a great assortment of additional Jelly Belly items for our distributor customers.”
The acquisition is the supplier’s second transaction this year. In January, it announced the acquisition of AmuseMints, a mint supplier to the promotional products and souvenir industries.