Industry: Packaged Foods

Sector: Consumer Defensive

TreeHouse Foods, Inc. manufactures and distributes private label foods and beverages in the United States and internationally. The company provides snacking product, such as crackers, pretzels, in-store bakery items, frozen griddle items, cookies, snack bars, and unique candy; and beverage and drink mix, including non-dairy creamer, single serve beverages, broths/stocks, powdered beverages and other blends, tea, and ready-to-drink-beverages. It also offers grocery comprising pickles, refrigerated dough, hot cereal, and cheese and puddings, as well as natural, organic, and gluten free products. The company sells its products through various distribution channels, including retailers, foodservice distributors, foodaway-from-home customers, and co-manufacturers, as well as industrial and export, which includes food manufacturers and repackagers of foodservice products. TreeHouse Foods, Inc. was incorporated in 2005 and is based in Oak Brook, Illinois.

TreeHouse Foods is evaluated using Mavefund's quality framework: growing earnings, durable profit margins, conservative leverage, strong return on equity, and disciplined share repurchases.