Acosta Sales & Marketing Acquires Firebird Foods

Acosta Sales & Marketing, a leading full-service sales and marketing agency in the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry, has announced the acquisition of Firebird Foods, a meat and deli sales agency based in Phoenix.  Integrating with Acosta’s strategic focus on Fresh Foods, the combined organization will extend the company’s services both at Kroger and in the West region. “The acquisition of Firebird Foods reinforces Acosta’s strategy of finding the best sales and marketing agencies in each market and providing linkage to a national platform with robust business insights, analytics and comprehensive merchandising services,” said John Dunne, Senior Vice President, Client Development, Fresh Foods. “This partnership will allow us to add to our diverse and talented group of associates, and will help us continue to create retailer alliances for our clients across the country in the perimeter categories of their stores” With more than 700 associates focused on Fresh Foods, Acosta provides the most comprehensive sales, marketing and merchandising coverage in the industry. The company has grown its Fresh Foods division through a combination of organic growth and strategic acquisitions of local market agencies, resulting in a national footprint oflocal departmental experts. Greg Creek,President of Firebird Foods, and his team, will be based out of Acosta’s Phoenix office. Creek will continue to be active in leading Acosta’s Fresh Foods business in this market. With more than 25 years of industry experience, Creek started Progressive Sales & Marketing in 1995 and in 2004, the business was merged with Firebird Foods Inc. to form Firebird Foods LLC.