AdvancePierre Foods and Johnsonville Sausage form strategic alliance

Cincinnati-based AdvancePierre Foods and Sheboygan Falls.-based Johnsonville Sausage have formed a strategic alliance, leveraging AdvancePierre Foods’ foodservice organization and distribution system to deliver Johnsonville Sausage to foodservice customers across the United States.
The partnership will make AdvancePierre Foods the exclusive foodservice distributor of Johnsonville Sausage.
“This partnership is bringing together two businesses that share a passion for producing delicious, high-quality food products,” said Bill Toler, CEO of AdvancePierre Foods. “As our company continues to grow, we look forward to enhancing our product portfolio and bringing our customers the best-tasting, most satisfying products on the market.”
The partnership with AdvancePierre Foods will make Johnsonville Sausage available to more customers across the country, the companies said.
“For more than 65 years, Johnsonville has been known for producing only the highest-quality, most flavorful sausage,” said Johnsonville President Bill Morgan. “We look forward to our continued growth and presence on the menus of restaurants and other venues, sharing the legendary flavor of Johnsonville Sausage with even more consumers, through this new strategic partnership with AdvancePierre Foods.”
Johnsonville products will be available to AdvancePierre Foods’ customers in the second quarter of 2012.