Country Pure Foods, a producer and distributor of juices, was bought in a secondary deal that had First Atlantic Capital and DN Partners passing the company along to Mistral Equity Partners, a PE firm that has been particularly hungry with its first fund.

Country Pure’s management team will continue to maintain their current positions and is rolling over its stake in the company as part of the transaction. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

County Pure Foods was created when First Atlantic bought and merged two regional juice processors, Natural Country Farms, and Ohio Pure Foods. The investment, which occurred in 1995, likely came out of First Atlantic's debut fund, raised in 1992. DN Partners, meanwhile, was formed in 1996, and invested out of its second fund, suggesting the firm made a follow-on investment following First Atlantic's initial deal.

Calls to both firms were not returned by press time.

Mistral Equity Partners, meanwhile, closed a fund of nearly $300 million in June 2009 that has been used in numerous investments in the food space. Andrew Heyer, who has previously worked on the PE firm’s food deals, was on the Country Pure transaction.

Among Mistral’s other portfolio companies are Shearer’s Foods, a snackmaker; Jamba Juice, a smoothie retailer; Hain Celestial Group, a maker of organic food and natural personal care products; and Reddy Ice Holdings, a packaged ice distributor.

The foods space has been besieged by financial sponsors recently. Earlier this month, CVC Capital Partners bought Autobar Group from Charterhouse Capital Partners in a secondary deal that had the buyer taking on a food vending machine business. PE firm KPS Capital Partners acquired bought Vermont-based microbrewery Magic Hat for its North American Brewery platform, and in June, Advantage Capital Partners provided Protein Solutions with refinancing capital.