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Brookside Flavors & Ingredients (BFI) has completed the acquisition of Sterling Food Flavorings. Sterling Food Flavorings is a manufacturer of flavouring systems based in New Jersey, US. Meanwhile, Brookside Flavors & Ingredients helps food and beverage companies create flavourful products across a wide range of sweet and savoury applications. BFI serves customers from two production locations in the US, located in Addison, Illinois, and Branchburg, New Jersey. According to the company, Sterling's owners, Vitas Roman and Rick Englesbe, will continue serving Sterling's customers as part of BFI. Englesbe and Roman said: "We look forward to joining the BFI organisation. BFI has an excellent reputation in the marketplace and is known for excellent service and quality products. BFI and Sterling are a perfect fit. We will be able to grow faster and provide additional services and products to our customers with the resources they offer." Rudy Dieperink, CEO of BFI, added: "We are very excited to have Sterling join BFI. Sterling enables us to expand our product portfolio and broaden our offerings to our existing customer base. We will also be able to offer a broader range of products and services to the current Sterling customers. Sterling fits in very well with our strategy to offer our current and future customers the right capabilities to help them be successful." Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.