World Gourmet Marketing Acquires Rivard Popcorn

World Gourmet Marketing, makers of Sensible Portions, a New Jersey-based food manufacturer, has acquired Rivard Popcorn located in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

According to World Gourmet Marketing, the recently remodeled Rivard facility provides manufacturing capabilities and a strategic location in the Northeast close to many key customers for the Sensible Portions brand. The company said that the local community will benefit as World Gourmet Marketing plans to significantly increase production and employment over the next 12 months and begin sourcing materials and transportation from local suppliers.

The Rivard acquisition brings additional production including popcorn, caramel corn, air popped technology, as well as fried and baked pellet snacks including vegetable snacks.

Jason Cohen, president of World Gourmet, said: “‘The Rivard Business’, now called ‘Sensible Snacks’, is highly complementary and positions World Gourmet to better serve our customers and the growing demand for the Sensible Portions brand. Pellet-based snacks are one of the fastest growing segments in the snack category and the Sensible Portions brand can be found in customers such as Costco, BJ’s, Sam’s Club, Wal-Mart and many more.”