Swander Pace Capital , a private equity firm specialising in consumer products companies, announced today it has partnered with CDPQ and Roynat Equity Partners  to acquire a majority stake in St-Méthode Bakery, a supplier of healthy, value-add fresh bread products.

Founded in 1947 by Joseph Faucher and his wife Mariette Robert, St-Méthode Bakery is a Québec-based producer in the healthy, value-add bread category. St-Méthode Bakery distributes three lines of healthy products – La Récolte de St-Méthode, Les Grains St-Méthode and Le Campagnolo – to retailers and customers throughout Québec and Canada.

Operating from its flagship bakery in Adstock, St-Méthode Bakery proudly features local raw materials such as Québec wheat flour and remains one of the largest employers in the Chaudière-Appalaches region

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