Tall Tree Foods, a portfolio company of Altamont Capital Partners, has bought The January Co., a leading manufacturer of Chinese-style meat products based in Kent.
The January Co., founded in 1948 in Vancouver, British Columbia, has been owned and operated by Jim Ding, the company’s president and CEO, for more than four decades. The company is renowned for its high quality, authentic and great-tasting Chinese-style sausage and barbecue pork products sold throughout the United States under the Kam Yen Jan and Yangtze brands.
The company moved to Seattle in 1978, when Ding began to manage the business, and moved to Kent in 2011 for larger space at a 90,000-square-foot facility at 5851 S. 194th St.
Ding will continue to lead the business through a transition period along with the current management team based in Kent. The company’s plant and office will remain in Kent.
“We are pleased to have the future of The January Company in the hands of new ownership with Altamont Capital Partners and Tall Tree Foods,” Ding said in a Monday media release to announce the sale. “I want to thank the many employees and family members who have worked so hard to get the business to where it is today. We look forward to the future growth of the brand.”
Tall Tree Foods in 2013 acquired the Blue Ribbon Bacon and Sausage business in Southeast Texas, and Richard’s Cajun Foods, a leading manufacturer of authentic sausage and ready-to-eat meals sold in Louisiana, Texas and other southeastern states. Tall Tree Foods acquired in 2014 Klement’s Sausage Co., a Milwaukee-based manufacturer of European-heritage meat products.
Altamont Capital Partners is a private investment firm based in the San Francisco Bay Area with approximately $1.3 billion of capital under management, including government services, financial services, consumer/retail, industrials and healthcare.
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