Diversified Foodservice Supply, LLC (DFS), the parent company of leading brands in the foodservice parts, supplies, equipment, and accessories distribution industry, acquired HoodFilters.com, a web marketing and distribution company focused on hood filters and restaurant ventilation equipment, parts and accessories.  The addition of HoodFilters.com to the DFS portfolio adds product depth to the organization and improves the web marketing capability of the company to independent restaurants. HoodFilters.com will continue to operate as a leading brand in the combined company and joins other DFS brands AllPoints Foodservice Parts and Supplies, Franklin Machine Products, Tundra Restaurant Supply, Mill Hardware, Restaurant Parts & More, DSI Parts, and Restaurant Discount Warehouse as major brands owned by DFS. 

“The addition of HoodFilters.com to the DFS family of brands will create clear advantages to our valued customers and associates,” says Monty Lockyear, president of HoodFilters.com. “Our customers will benefit through significant scale advantages in geographic coverage, product expansion, and purchasing synergies.  HoodFilters.com will continue to operate as a brand in the DFS portfolio, so the outstanding service that our customers enjoy today will only get better.” 

“Adding HoodFilters.com to the Diversified Foodservice Supply family is incredibly exciting,” says Mike Cate, CEO of DFS. “HoodFilters.com is recognized in the industry as a premier web marketing competitor and a dominant player in the hood filters and restaurant ventilation product lines. The combination of HoodFilters.com with our other brands will create scale advantages to include improved web marketing capability and a significantly more robust product offering, which will benefit all of our valued customers.”

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