Dave’s Gourmet, Inc. a nine-time NASFT award winner, just closed on its purchase of fellow specialty food producer Chile Today – Hot Tamale. Chile Today is a 14 year old New Jersey company that is best known for its line of delicious spiced pretzel nuggets and its premium chile powders and pods. They purchased the brand from Interantional Foodsource, a company that focuses on a huge variety of gourmet ingredients for the foodservice, private label and industrial markets. Since branded retail is not their focus International, Foodsource decided to sell the brand (also because they were friends with Dave at Dave’s Gourmet). The two companies are a perfect fit since they both sell to similar customers and both focus on high end differentiated products. This is the second acquisition in less than a year for Dave’s Gourmet. This past April they bought Palette Fine Foods, maker of specialty jams, honeys, spice rubs, and a new line of dessert sauces.
“I am really excited to be able to bring another great brand into our fold”, said company founder Dave. “Our expanded product offerings allow us to reach more customers, cross sell, and become more efficient, ” he continued.
Dave’s Gourmet is also considering some further acquisitions.This acquisition falls on the heels of launching a combination
Hot Sauce and Garden Spray, an Adjustable Heat Hot Sauce, a Precocious Pepper Vinegar, and three delicious dessert sauces in their Palette Fine Foods brand. The dessert creams/sauces include a delicious Gingerbread Cream, a sinful Chocolate Orange Cream and an all American Apple Pie & Ice Cream.Dave’s Gourmet is best known for their insanity hot sauces, salsas, drink mixes, and snacks. They also make Jump Up & Kiss Me Sauces and Dave’s Gourmet organic heirloom pasta sauces. Under their Palette Fine Foods subsidiary they produce exclusive jams, spice rubs, sorbet syrups, and honeys. Dave just appeared on his third Food Network special and has written a cookbook, Crazy from the Heat – The Dave’s Insanity Cookbook. Their website is www.davesgourmet.com.
7 responses to “DAVE’S GOURMET, INC ACQUIRES CHILE TODAY- HOT TAMALE”
Hi! I’m looking for bottles of Chile Today/Hot Tamale’s X-HOT Habanero spice. I understand Dave’s has aquired the NJ company that made this wonderful spice….but I can’t seem to be able to find any new bottles of this wonderful elixir. I made the mistake of sharing it with my friends and now they all want “in”, too! Any help you can give would be appreciated!
Thanks,
Brian E. Smith
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Well the good news is I have some at Jungle Jim’s, The Bad news is are you near Cincinnati. I do not ship. Call Daves and ask they do online sales.
Hey Bret….
As a matter of fact, I will be passing through Cincinnati the day after Thanksgiving….my wife’s family lives in Lucasville OH and my family lives in Louisville, KY. Maybe you can tell me where you’re at & I can stop by???
TX,
Brian E.
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If you’re in the area, you definately need to stop in!!!!!!!!! Worth the stop. Just north in Fairfield, OH, a few miles off the hwy. Go to their website, and check it out.
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Sorry just got back home. Date night. 5440 Dixie Hwy Fairfield Ohio 45014 Just North of Cincinnati About 20 miles. 5miles from 75. Got to go wife waiting
I’ve had had a bottle of this “Chile Today, Hot Tamale”-Original smoked habanero for a quite a while and this stuff is frickin awsome. Only prob is I can find it anywhere now and its almost gone! If anyone has any info that can help me out it would be much appriciated. Thanks
Ty- Missoula, Mt
Every year for the past 6, Rob Polishook arranged to donate 200 bags of Chile Today-Hot Tamale pretzels to our running race, The Healthy Heart Stillwater Stampede. They are so loved by our runners, and would be very badly missed if we did not have them. We have posted Chile Today prominently in our program and at a mile marker. We area really hoping Dave’s Gourmet will continue this donation! Our race is always the first Saturday in June (so June 2nd this year) and proceeds benefit a vital youth running program called The Bears that serves all of Northern, NJ as well as The Newton Memorial Hospital’s Heart Center. I’ll look forward to hearing from you in regards to this and really hope you can continue the donation! Very truly yours, Laurie Gordon