Western Smokehouse Partners

Western Smokehouse Partners, the Illinois-based meat snacks manufacturer, has acquired Junior’s Smokehouse Processing, a Texas-based producer of jerky and smoked sausages, for an undisclosed sum. The transaction adds a manufacturing facility in El Campo, Texas, to Western Smokehouse’s existing network, which includes plants in Missouri, Illinois, Iowa and Idaho. The company also announced plans to construct a second facility in El Campo, with work expected to begin in the first …