Suba Seeds acquires pea and bean seed producer Brotherton Seed

Suba Seeds USA, a completely owned unit of Suba Seeds Group and a portfolio company of Paine & Partners, has acquired Brotherton Seed Company.

Financial details of the deal have not been disclosed.

Set up in 1936, Brotherton Seed is a producer of pea and bean seeds for the processing market in North America.

Brotherton Seed has two production facilities in Washington and is involved in innovation and R&D, especially in the area of pea improvement and the development of multi-podded pea varieties suitable for commercial use.

Its two facilities in Washington are located in Moses Lake and Quincy, Washington.

Brotherton Seed, which provides services to commercial customers across North America, is supported by a network of thousands of acres of qualified seed growers across the Pacific Northwest.

Suba chief executive officer Marcello Tumedei said: "We are pleased to announce the acquisition of Brotherton Seed, which further expands Suba's presence in the US market and its position in large seed vegetable production, globally.

“We see significant growth potential in this combination, driven by cross selling and production opportunities, both by leveraging the expanded grower network and through expanding Suba's offering to its international customer base.

“We look forward to welcoming the talented Brotherton Seed team to the Suba Seeds family and to working with them to capitalise on those opportunities.”

Brotherton Seed managing director Jerome Brotherton said: “We are excited to become part of Suba Seeds, an international leader in seed production with the scale and experience to take our business to the next level, both domestically and abroad.

“We are proud of what we have accomplished over Brotherton Seed's 80-year history and we are grateful to our employees, whose hard work enabled us to become the North American leader in our varieties.

“We have earned the confidence and trust of food processors and fresh market dealers across our markets and we are eager to extend this heritage as part of Suba.”

Jerome will continue to support Brotherton's development as a full-time consultant.

Brotherton's entire team will join the Suba platform.