(WARSAW) - A Warsaw-based egg producer has been sold after more than a century of family ownership. Creighton Brothers has been sold to Cal-Maine Foods for $128.5 million. The acquisition includes 3.2 million laying hens, a feed mill, egg processing facilities, and Crystal Lake LLC, which produces liquid, frozen, and hard-cooked eggs.
Creighton Brothers had been supplying eggs to Cal-Maine for several years prior to the sale, according to reporting from WSBT.
The purchase marks Cal-Maine's first shell egg production operation in Indiana. The company says the acquisition expands its production scale and geographic reach for both conventional and specialty eggs.
The family and employees will remain local, and Creighton Brothers will continue operating the Crazy Egg Cafe in Warsaw.
Kosciusko County is one of the most concentrated egg-producing regions in the country, and Indiana ranks third nationally in total egg production.