JIMMY'S GOURMET BAKERY acquired by RISE BAKING

Rise Baking Company acquired Jimmy’s Gourmet Bakery, the New Jersey manufacturer of cookies and baked goods, completing the transaction on 3 August 2026 after signing a definitive agreement earlier in the year. The purchase added three plants covering more than 350,000 square feet to the Minneapolis-based company’s manufacturing network. It widened Rise Baking’s product range, particularly in cookies, and extended its reach in the north-east of the United States, where Jimmy’s had built retail relationships over four decades. Both companies make frozen baked goods sold through supermarket bakery sections and foodservice operators, under their own brands and under their customers’ labels. Jimmy’s was to operate independently while the two companies worked out how to integrate, and its employees joined Rise Baking Company. Howard Hirsch remained chief executive of Jimmy’s, with Michael Pisani as president. The purchase continued a series of acquisitions through which Rise Baking had assembled its portfolio of bakery brands.