Wolverine Packing was founded by the late Al Bonahoom who operated exclusively as a lamb and veal processor until the early 1960’s. During this time, the company went through many transitions and eventually evolved into one the leaders in the lamb and veal slaughter business. Wolverine Packing was a pioneer in the development of fresh vacuum-packed lamb and veal, which today is the industry standard.If Mary lost her little lamb anywhere near Detroit, it probably ended up at Wolverine Packing. The company is a leading packing plant that slaughters and processes lamb, along with veal, beef, pork, and poultry. Its offers boxed meat and portion control products, along with such value-added meat products as breaded veal patties. Wolverine Packing serves both food retailers and foodservice customers nationwide, as well as private-label customers. The family-owned meat packing business was started by the late Al Bonahoom.

You want proof? The people at Bacardi Global Brands will pour it out for you -- from a bottle. One of the world's leading wine and spirits makers, Bacardi produces 10 varieties of its namesake rum (of which it sells some 20 million cases every year). However, rum is not the only potable offered by Bacardi. The company's portfolio consists of more than 200 brands and labels, including Bombay Sapphire Gin, Martini Vermouth, Dewar's Scotch Whisky, B&B and Bandictine liqueurs, and Grey Goose Vodka. Other types of spirits in its portfolio include tequila, vermouth, cognac, and sparkling wine. Serving more than 100 countries, the company operates 27 production sites around the world.

Hickman's Family Farms has been family-owned and operated in Arizona since 1944. In its early days, Hickman's entered the Arizona food service market by providing fresh, locally produced eggs direct to small independent restaurants, and directly to consumers. Every afternoon, one little refrigerated panel truck was sufficient to deliver the day's production to coffee shops in Glendale and to Carnation Restaurant in the big city of Phoenix. Bill and Gertie Hickman displayed the entrepreneurial insight that has kept Hickman's competitive for decades. By 1993, Hickman's was left standing as the only Arizona egg producer with chickens and a USDA-inspected processing plant. Despite the challenges of the egg industry, the Glendale operation continued to expand. In the late 1990s a new operation opened in Buckeye with laying houses that are each called home by 130,000 hens.

Casa de Oro Foods LLC was founded in 1992 and is based in Omaha, Nebraska. Casa de Oro Foods is a leading manufacturer of wheat-based flour tortillas. In addition to manufacturing traditional tortillas, casa also manufacture a variety of flavored tortillas, low carbohydrate tortillas, as well as taco and fajita meal kits. Casa de Oro Foods sells to leading retailers, national restaurants, foodservice distributors, and branded food manufacturers in the United States under casa own Casa de Oro brand, licensed brand names, and private label brands.

For the first 35 years of his life, Jim Koch's family history and future career lay in the attic of his parents' house. Tucked away was an old family recipe from the 1800s for Louis Koch Lager. For five generations, the men in the Koch family were brewmasters, but the market for full-flavored beer had diminished and it seemed Jim's father would be the last Koch to carry on the tradition of brewing flavorful beer. However, Jim's passion for quality, flavorful beer kept him close to his roots. In the early 1980's he became convinced that he could build a niche in the competitive beer market for a high-quality American beer. Using the same recipe and traditional brewing processes that his great-great grandfather used, Jim brewed Samuel Adams Boston Lager® and took beer to a whole new level.

Herr Foods is your best friend when you've got a case of the munchies. The snack food manufacturer, in business since 1946, makes about 340 different kinds of snack foods (all sold under the Herr's brand name) including potato chips, pretzels, tortilla chips, cheese curls, corn chips, pita chips, popcorn, crackers, nuts, pork rinds, onion rings, and meat sticks. Herr Foods company distributes its food items to retail food outlets in the US (primarily east of the Mississippi River), as well as in Canada. Herr Foods is run by chairman and CEO James M. Herr, son of company founder, James Stauffer Herr.

Locations FAQs Careers SERVICES DAIRY DELI FOODSERVICE ADAMS RESERVE AWARDS CONTACT HOME It was 1958 when Hans Epprecht, a Swiss immigrant, began his business as a small company that delivered bulk cheeses to neighborhood stores in Cleveland, Ohio, on the southern shore of Lake Erie. Before long, retailers began asking for pre-cut cheeses wrapped in smaller sizes and more cheese varieties to better satisfy their customers…and the Great Lakes Cheese tradition was born. Since then, Great Lakes has grown rapidly by acquisition, plant expansions, investment in the best technologies for production and distribution – and by setting industry standards in high service levels. Currently, Great Lakes serves the nation’s retailers and food service operations with seven strategic facilities across the U.S. It is a proud tradition of award-winning quality and the customer satisfaction we earn every day.

A leading US meatpacker, National Beef Packing (NBPC) pays close attention to what Americans eat for dinner. The company produces boxed, case-ready, portion-controlled, and branded fresh beef products for more than 900 domestic and export customers. In order to woo the natural-foods consumer, the company offers the Naturewell Natural Beef and NatureSource products, which are made from corn-fed, naturally raised beef cattle. Its refrigerated trucking unit, National Carriers, transports the company's beef within the US. NBPC is owned by beef producers, who control 68% of the company through their ownership of U.S. Premium Beef. U.S. (Premium provides cattle to NBPC for processing.)

BelleHarvest Sales company sells fresh vegetables and fruits to global customers; it primarily operates in the eastern US. BelleHarvest Sales, formed by a group of Michigan growers in 1957, provides storage, packing, delivery, and marketing services. Its products include apples, peaches, plums, and asparagus. BelleHarvest Sales is the sales and marketing arm of parent Belding Fruit Storage. It is also the exclusive marketer of produce from Umlor Orchards, Roossinck Fruit Storage, Gavin Orchards, and Timpson Orchards.

From the very beginning, Unibroue has carved out a special niche in the beer world with top quality products and a brand rooted deep in Quebec culture. It made history by becoming the first North American beer maker to use a brewing method inspired by the two-centuries-old tradition developed by Trappist monks in Europe—particularly in Belgium. Over the years, Unibroue has remained faithful to its origins even as it has grown to become an icon of the brewing world. Unibroue products take you on a journey filled with legends and fabulous tales.

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