Chef Boyardee just sold for $600 million—its founder was an Italian immigrant who was living the American Dream at 17 years ...

Chef Boyardee is getting a new home. Conagra Brands has agreed to sell the nearly century-old brand to private-equity firm Brynwood Partners for $600 million, executives told The Wall Street Journal.

By 1946, Chef Boy-ar-dee (as it was named then, before pivoting to today’s style, Boyardee) Quality Foods sold to a larger food company for $6 million (about $100 million today).

Brynwood Partners purchases well-known brands that have fallen out of favor with large CPG manufacturers, then boosts ...

Chef Boyardee labels and cans left at Boiardi's resting place. Courtesy of Courtney Eastman. Bioardi died in 1985 and was buried in Ohio, where he'd changed his life.

MILTON — A Pennsylvania plant that has made Chef Boyardee products since 1938 will be sold as part of a $600 million deal under which Brynwood Partners’ Hometown Food Company will acquire the ...

With Chef Boyardee, Hometown will have annual gross revenues exceeding $1.6 billion, and have four manufacturing facilities across the Northeastern, Midwestern, South Central, and Southeastern U.S ...

(RTTNews) - Conagra Brands, Inc. (CAG), Thursday announced its decision to sell its Chef Boyardee brand to Hometown Food Company, a portfolio company of Brynwood Partners, for $600 million in cash.

Food giant Conagra is selling off its Chef Boyardee brand to Hometown Food Company, which is owned by the Connecticut-based private equity firm Brynwood Partners. Chicago-based Conagra, whose ...