Fortune Fish & Gourmet, Bensenville, Ill., completed the acquisition of Chef Martin’s Alpine Brand Sausages, a Chicago-based small batch, premium sausage purveyor. Alpine Brand sausages are all-natural with fresh loin trim and use authentic recipes from Germany and Austria.
With the new ownership, Chef Martin’s will be under Fortune Fish’s gourmet foods division. The acquisition allows Chef Martin’s Alpine Brand to increase their efficiency by joining the infrastructure already in place at Fortune Fish & Gourmet. Chef Martin’s Alpine Brand will still be produced at their original 2710 S. Poplar facility in Chicago. This acquisition will also increase Chef Martin’s former distribution area with Fortune’s fleet of more than 43 refrigerated trucks with direct distribution in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Michigan and nationwide through Fortune’s Flying Fish program.