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US foodservice redistribution company, Honor Foods, has acquired Sommer Maid Creamery for an undisclosed sum. The acquisition expands Honor Foods' dairy portfolio and provides the company with access to the southeast, where Sommer Maid has established partnerships. Based in Pipersville, Pennsylvania, Sommer Maid Creamery is a family-owned foodservice redistributor with dairy expertise. Honor Foods is also headquartered in Pennsylvania and is a Burris Logistics company. “This acquisition fulfils a longstanding strategic intent of Honor Foods — to build upon our dairy product portfolio as a way to provide competitive differentiation within the foodservice redistribution channel,” said Walt Tullis, president of Honor Foods. “Sommer Maid has an extensive offering of dairy products, including butter, cheese and creams — largely under their own brand and labels...Further, their significant presence in the southeast opens the door for Honor Foods to satisfy another goal — to expand south.” Terms of the deal were not disclosed.