In February 2017, editor-in-chief Andy Hanacek visited with Thomas Shelton, chairman and founder of Case Farms, for an exclusive interview at his home. What follows is a portion of their discussion on the company’s past, present and future:
It took 55 years for Harper’s Country Hams of Clinton, Ky. to become one of the nation’s leading producers of cured ham. Yet in only a few hours, a massive fire turned the 100,000-square-foot plant into pile of twisted steel and smoldering rubble.
Sailer’s Food Market & Meat Processing has been satisfying its customers in the town and surrounding area since 1923, so the company has a pretty good grasp on what its customers want. When it comes to Sailer’s award-winning bacon, they’ll take “time-honored” over “hot and trendy.”
With its "One Smithfield" initiative well under way, Smithfield Foods has rallied around building a company-wide culture of innovation to drive its future as a more versatile, CPG-focused, global business.
In February 2015, the Smithfield Foods announced the "One Smithfield" initiative, phasing out the IOC model in favor of a structure organized more closely around customer needs than brands.
Tom Eickman and his wife, Katie, represent the next in a line of family members that have overseen Eickman’s Processing, maintaining its tradition as an award-winning, widely respected meat processor.
Consumers are more educated about ethnic foods than ever before, and the diversity of food within the Asian world is too great to be stuck in one generic grouping.
Two years after its acquisition by AdvancePierre Foods, the former Landshire sandwich-assembly plant in Caseyville, Ill., has embarked on a more stable and measured — but crucial to the company’s success — course for expansion and growth.
Part of the selling point for AdvancePierre Foods (APF) to potential investors leading up to the company’s initial public offering (IPO) last year was the claim that APF was a veritable expert on acquiring smaller companies.
AdvancePierre Foods' initial public offering (IPO) in July 2016 was a success for the company — now the sandwich and protein processor aims to follow the acquisition and growth strategies in its DNA to make it a resounding success for investors.
AdvancePierre Foods’ initial public offering (IPO) in July 2016 was a success for the company — now the sandwich and protein processor aims to follow the acquisition and growth strategies in its DNA to make it a resounding success for investors.
In 1966, John S. Richardson founded SugarCreek Packing Co. in Washington Court House, Ohio, opting to focus production on bacon — an accidentally prescient move that would set the company on course for long-term success during his tenure.