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.