Tilia invests in one of Central Midwest’s leading cold storage and ambient food warehousing providers

CHICAGO, IL – DECEMBER 6, 2019 | Tilia Holdings is pleased to announce the acquisition of Trilogy Warehouse Partners and its warehousing affiliates (“Trilogy”) as of December 6, 2019. The transaction will provide new growth opportunities for Trilogy through the resources and expertise available in Tilia’s other cold storage investments in Refrig-It, Inc. (“Refrig-It”) and Universal Pure Holdings LLC (“Universal Pure”). The investment will expand Tilia’s cold storage and other warehousing services while bringing a talented and experienced team into the Tilia Resource Network.

Trilogy was founded in 2013 to provide dedicated and public warehousing services to a variety of CPG, retail and other clients. Driven by a “customer-first” approach and a metrics-driven mentality, the company has steadily grown to include five warehousing and handling locations with a variety of temperature states across Missouri and Illinois.

“It’s been extremely gratifying to grow Trilogy alongside our customers over the past six years,” comments Mr. Baker, Trilogy’s Managing Partner. “As part of Tilia Holdings, we can offer more geographies to our customers and more opportunities for our employees. We are excited to continue Trilogy’s growth trajectory while leveraging the Tilia Resource Network and Tilia’s other cold storage investments.”

According to Johannes Burlin of Tilia, “We are thrilled to partner with Rick Baker and his team to help fuel the growth of our combined businesses. The Trilogy team adds significant cold-chain, logistics and customer acquisition experience to Tilia’s supply chain management sub-sector focus. With locations and major customers throughout the Midwest, Trilogy’s operations create a geographic and strategic complement to the existing East Coast and Great Plains warehouse facilities at two Tilia portfolio companies, Refrig-It and Universal Pure.

ABOUT TRILOGY WAREHOUSE PARTNERS

Trilogy Warehouse Partners, based in St. Louis, Missouri, is a leading provider of warehousing and supply chain management services to the food and beverage, consumer, healthcare and industrial markets. Trilogy manages both food grade and non-food grade facilities and handles frozen, dry, and perishable products across all aspects of the food storage supply chain primarily for retail grocers, food manufacturers and food distributors. The Company was founded in 2013 by Hilton Kahn, Rick Baker and Quin Brewer and today manages five warehouses in Missouri and Illinois.

ABOUT TILIA HOLDINGS

Tilia is a Chicago-based private investment firm focused exclusively on making control investments in the evolving “farm-to-fork” segment of the global food supply chain. Tilia partners with growing, middle market companies who provide business services across the food supply chain and support leading, emerging and private-label CPG brands. The firm’s sector focused strategy is a successful approach to investments that spans three decades. Tilia believes its deep understanding of operations, its subject matter expertise in the food chain, and its disciplined approach to value creation uniquely position the firm to scale business services companies in the lower middle market. Through a value creation & governance model emphasizing stewardship, Tilia builds distinctive growth companies that enhance safety, nutrition & sustainability in the food supply chain.  For more information, please visit www.tiliallc.com.