Award-Winning Artisan Cheese Brand + Platform
Listing: #WK00551Sunil Patil
Broker | Waikato
About this Business for sale in Waikato Surrounds
Award-Winning Artisan Cheese Brand + PlatformAward-Winning Cheese Brand + Platform
Acquire an award winning New Zealand artisan cheese brand and specialist manufacturing and retail platform with close to two decades of market presence and 150+ NZ and international awards.
This is not positioned as a conventional earnings-multiple acquisition. Strategic buyers may identify additional value by leveraging existing manufacturing, sales, distribution or overhead infrastructure alongside the brand and customer channels.
Key Features
- Established direct, online, supermarket, foodservice and wholesale channels
- Proven recipes and process know-how across cow, goat, sheep and buffalo milk
- White-mould, blue, hard and fresh cheese capability
- Assets include pasteurising, vats, maturation, packing and chilled infrastructure
- Contract/private-label manufacturing potential
- Flexible structure: continue as is or integrate the brand, IP, equipment and customer channels into an existing dairy/food operation
The Numbers
- FY26 revenue: $1.31m
- Revenue mix: ~ 60% wholesale/trade / 40% direct-retail
- Top 10 products represent ~ 74% of recorded cheese volume
Who Would This Suit?
An owner-operator, established dairy/food manufacturer, premium food brand or strategic buyer seeking an established specialty platform that would take significant time and capital to recreate.
The vendor is committed to a timely sale and orderly transition. This is a opportunity to acquire an established brand, manufacturing and retail capability, customer base and supply chain.
Price/structure: By negotiation.
Business identity and detailed information will be released only to qualified parties following a confidentiality agreement.
Enquire now to learn more.
Sunil Patil, 021 814 424, sunil.patil@linkbusiness.co.nz
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*Profit: Sellers Discretionary Earnings, also known as EBPITD (Earnings Before Proprietors Compensation, Interest, Tax and Depreciation). This is the estimated total discretionary earnings (profit) for a business, usually based on historical trading.

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