Experienced Team

Leadership

G. Torrey Rossetter

Torrey has focused on the food industry for more than 25 years at major financial institutions including Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette, Rabobank and RBC Capital Markets. He has led hundreds of transactions and investments encompassing each major sector of the food industry - from food input companies to food manufacturers, distributors, retailers and foodservice companies.

Torrey has executed a broad array of transactions for food companies including mergers, acquisitions, corporate sales, private equity buyouts, divestitures, debt and equity financings, restructurings, recapitalizations and strategic alliances. He has spent much of his career valuing food companies and analyzing strategic alternatives for food businesses. He has worked closely with management teams of both family owned and public food companies in formulating and implementing creative strategic and corporate finance solutions to enhance value. Torrey has in-depth industry knowledge having worked in more than 65 different segments of the food industry. He is a graduate from Williams College and Harvard Business School.

Industry Experts

Grandview's team includes a rich cross section of many of the pre-eminent CEOs and operators from the leading companies in the food industry. With deep management experience in every major sector of the industry, an extensive network of relationships, and tremendous operating expertise across the entire supply chain, Grandview has unrivaled advantages in evaluating investments and realizing value for investors.

Grandview has more than 50 industry investors and participants from the following representative list of companies:

A.M Todd

Atalanta

Ball Corporation

Big Heart Pet Brands

Boise Inc.

C&S Wholesale Grocers

Cadbury

Cliffstar

Coca-Cola

ConAgra

Constar

Cott

Del Monte

Dole

EveryWare Global

Exal Corporation

Frito-Lay

General Mills

IGA

JM Smucker

Kroger

Land O'Lakes

Lassonde

McDonald's

Mott's

Nabisco

Nellson Nutraceuticals

New World Pasta

Packaging Corp of America

Panera Bread

Pepsi

Pizza Hut

Proctor & Gamble

Publix Supermarkets

Purina Mills

Quaker Oats

Rexam

Rich Products

Safeway

Sobeys

Sunny Delight

SunPac

SuperValu

Sysco

The Mosaic Companies

The Snapple Group

Topco

Unified Grocers

United One International

Unilever

Vita Foods

Vons Supermarkets

Voss Water

Wakefern (Shoprite)

Walgreens

Wal-Mart

Wells

Whitlock Packaging

Yum Brands!

Zumbiel Packaging

Biographies available upon request.