SOKOL Custom Food Ingredients

Based in Illinois, US, and founded in 1895, Sokol Custom Food Ingredients (Sokol & Company) operates as a manufacturing company that provides food ingredients and retail-ready food products, such as sauces, dressings, marinades, glazes, frostings, pastes, ice cream ribbons and bases, fudge, nut butter, and fillings in bulk, and pouch formats for retail, industrial, and foodservice industries. The company offers its portfolio of retail products under the Baker, Borden, Chun’s, Simon Fisher, and Solo brands. In September 2022, Gladstone Capital Corporation and Burlington Capital Partners, along with the company's management acquired Sokol Custom Food Ingredients. The company’s product line includes a wide range of Jim Beam barbecue sauces, Solo cake and pastry fillings, Solo almond paste, Solo marzipan, Baker apricot cake and pastry filling, Baker poppy cake & pastry filling, Borden shelf-stable eggnog, bulk almond paste, Dickey's original barbecue sauce, Dickey's spicy barbecue sauce, Simon Fischer apricot butter, Simon Fischer lekvar prune butter, Sunkist blueberry chipotle dressing, Sunkist dressings and sauces variety pack, and more.

Sokol & Company plans to use its proceeds from September 2022 investment to pursue its growth initiatives, which will leverage the expansion of its manufacturing and packaging capabilities, as well as its quality-first operating expertise. Later in January 2024, SACO Foods, a portfolio company of Fengate Capital Management and Weathervane Asset Management, acquired Solo Foods, LLC from Sokol & Company.