Ed and Regina Woods, owners of Woods Smoked Meats, a meat processing plant with a retail store and deli located in Bowling Green, MO, announced the sale of Woods Smoked Meats to HWC Meats. The new owner is a partnership between Mike Sloan, owner Hermann Wurst Haus in Hermann, MO, Cory Hawkins, owner Central Missouri Meat Sausage in Fulton, MO, and Steve Bolton, Woods Smoked Meats General Manager.
Ed Woods is retiring after 70 years in the meat processing business. Ed is legendary in the meat processing industry, having won over 645 state, national, and international awards for his smoked meat creations, at the State Meat Processors Convention, State Fairs, the American Cured Meat Championships and the prestigious IFFA German Butchers Association Show in Frankfurt. Germany. An icon in the industry, he was inducted into the American Cured Meats Hall of Fame in 1995. In 2017, Woods was inducted into the prestigious National Meat Industry Hall of Fame at a ceremony in Atlanta, Georgia. Woods Smoked Meats is one of the top 3-4 award winners in the United States.