Global savoury ingredient manufacturer Solina has finalised the acquisition of Twang Foodservice, a Texas-based developer and manufacturer of beverage flavour systems and dry beverage formulations.
The transaction marks Solina's expansion into the fast-growing beverage category in North America, integrating custom beverage flavour development, dry formulations, and operational support systems into its established culinary portfolio. Twang Foodservice specialises in custom formulations for quick-service restaurants (QSR), coffee houses, convenience store networks, and foodservice operators across the region.
The financial terms of the transaction have not been disclosed.
Category Expansion and Beverage Customisation
The acquisition provides Solina USA with an immediate entry point into the beverage formulation sector, which remains one of the most active innovation drivers in the global foodservice market.
Twang Foodservice is recognised for its rapid product development and close collaboration with national restaurant chains to design custom beverage profiles. The company’s portfolio spans a variety of dry and liquid ingredient formats designed to add flavour, texture, and visual impact to commercial drink menus, including:
☕ Cold Foams – Specialised milk-based toppings, such as Mexican chocolate cold foam, designed to elevate premium iced coffee and espresso menus.
🥭 Layered Fruit Profiles – Concentrated syrup and fruit systems, including mango-infused layers, developed for custom lemonades and iced teas.
🍂 Textured Rims – Aromatic spice and sugar blends, including cinnamon-sugar and citrus-salt rimming formulations, developed to finish craft sodas, mocktails, and cocktails.
The integration of these formats allows Solina to offer a more comprehensive, multi-category portfolio to its foodservice clients, combining its established savoury seasoning capabilities with custom sweet and functional beverage technologies.
Operational Continuity and San Antonio Centre
To ensure business continuity and preserve regional technical relationships, Solina will maintain Twang Foodservice's existing manufacturing and development operations in San Antonio, Texas.
The facility will function as Solina’s central hub for North American beverage research and development, supported by planned future capital investments to expand processing capacity.
Under the terms of the agreement, Twang Foodservice’s leadership team and employees will transition into Solina's regional business unit. Elysia Treviño-Gonzales, Chief Executive Officer of Twang Foodservice, will continue to lead the division, working alongside Michael Marks, Regional CEO of Solina USA.
Anthony Francheterre, Chief Executive Officer of Solina, stated that the acquisition aligns with the group's focus on combining culinary creativity with industrial processing expertise. He noted that integrating Twang’s development team will assist Solina's customers in translating complex flavour concepts into stable, scalable foodservice products.
Separation of Twang Brands Retail Division
A key structural component of the transaction is the separation of Twang's retail business.
The branded retail packaged foods division is excluded from the Solina acquisition and will operate independently under the name Twang Brands. Headquartered in San Antonio, Twang Brands will manage its own commercial sales and marketing, utilising its primary manufacturing assets located in Rioverde, San Luis Potosí, Mexico.
According to Treviño-Gonzales, separating the industrial foodservice division from the branded consumer division will allow the independent Twang Brands management team to focus resources entirely on driving the retail business forward in conventional grocery channels.
Solina, which operates across Europe, North America, and Asia, serves food manufacturers and foodservice clients by developing bespoke ingredient solutions. The addition of the San Antonio site expands the multinational's global footprint of research, development, and production assets.
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