August 8/Toronto/GlobeNewswire -- SunOpta Inc. announced that its indirect wholly owned subsidiary, SunOpta Global Organic Ingredients Inc., has completed the acquisition of the assets and business of Lorton's Fresh Squeezed Juices Inc.
Located in San Bernadino, Cal., Lorton's is a vertically integrated producer of a variety of citrus based products in both industrial and packaged formats, with revenues of approximately $10 million. The acquisition expands SunOpta's vertically integrated operations into the extracting, processing and packaging of citrus based ingredients through consumer packaged products. These facilities have capacity for further growth and expansion.