{{Short description|Food services company}} {{Notability|Companies|date=March 2021}} '''Fairmount Food Group, LLC'''<ref>[http://www.fairmountfood.com FFG home page] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080516055830/http://www.fairmountfood.com/ |date=2008-05-16 }}</ref> ('''FFG''') is a food industrial company headquartered in Dallas, Texas. Established in 2003 by Bing Graffunder (CEO) and Sam Hillin (CFO), the company began with an initial $200 million in equity financing from GTCR Golder Rauner with the purpose of buying out growth companies in the industry.<ref>[http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EIN/is_2003_May_8/ai_101429720 "GTCR Provides $200 Million Equity Commitment to Start Fairmount Food Group, LLC"], ''Business Wire'', May 8, 2003</ref>
==Companies== {{As of|2007}}, the portfolio of companies (all of them being specialty and deli-style cheese companies) which continue to operate under their own identities include:<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.fairmountfood.com/news.htm |title=FFG portfolio |access-date=2008-01-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070301161600/http://www.fairmountfood.com/news.htm |archive-date=2007-03-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref> *DCI Cheese Company (acquired April 2005), (sold 2011) *Green Bay Cheese Company (acq. February 2006), *G&G Foods (acq. June 2006), *Swissrose International (acq. August 2006<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fairmountfood.com/news/news-swiss-rose.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2008-01-28 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070106182959/http://www.fairmountfood.com/news/news-swiss-rose.pdf |archivedate=2007-01-06 }}</ref>) *Advantage Foods (Advantage International Foods Corporation, acquired from ConAgra, Omaha, Nebraska in September 2007<ref name=af>[http://www.advantagefoods.com/news.cfm?id=28 News – Advantage International Foods Corporation<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref>). Other acquisitions include Carter/Meister LLC<ref name=af/> (a supplier for DCI Cheese<ref>[http://www.dcicheeseco.com/Scripts/pageView.asp?idPage=15 DCI Cheese Company | Our Story<!-- Bot generated title -->] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080114220735/http://www.dcicheeseco.com/Scripts/pageView.asp?idPage=15 |date=2008-01-14 }}</ref>). These acquisitions have made Fairmount Food Group one of the largest importers and marketers of specialty and deli-style cheese in the United States.<ref>[http://www.gourmetretailer.com/gourmetretailer/magazine/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003680096 "Industry News"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080229143652/http://www.gourmetretailer.com/gourmetretailer/magazine/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003680096 |date=2008-02-29 }}, ''Gourmet Retailer Magazine'', December 01, 2007</ref>
==See also== * List of dairy product companies in the United States
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Category:Companies based in Dallas Category:Dairy products companies of the United States