Jan Holzmeister Cheesecake Ltd

Vestro Foods Inc., hoping to sweeten its sales in the dessert market, said Tuesday that it has acquired a Denver-based cheesecake baking company for an undisclosed sum. Jan Holzmeister Cheesecake Ltd., which supplies frozen cheesecakes to restaurants around the nation, will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Vestro, officials of the Newport Beach-based food company said.

Vestro Foods Inc., hoping to sweeten its sales in the dessert market, said Tuesday that it has acquired a Denver-based cheesecake baking company for an undisclosed sum. Jan Holzmeister Cheesecake Ltd., which supplies frozen cheesecakes to restaurants around the nation, will become a wholly owned subsidiary of Vestro, officials of the Newport Beach-based food company said.

Vestro Foods Inc. said Wednesday that it has sold its pastry and cheesecake operations so that it can concentrate on its core business--health foods. The company also said it has moved its headquarters from Newport Beach to Carson, closing an office where it had two employees. Vestro subsidiaries Heidi's Pastry Inc. and Jan Holzmeister Cheesecake Ltd. in the San Fernando Valley community of Sun Valley were sold to Heritage Kitchen Speciality Foods Inc. in San Francisco.