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Spanish food company Ebro Foods acquires organic food firm Vegetalia for €15m

The latter, based in Barcelona, had revenues of €11.5m in 2016 and sells 1,500 organic SKUs. The acquisition was made through Ebro’s French subsidiary Alimentation Santé, and does not include Vegetalia’s range of restaurants in Spain.

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