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Troy Link, President and CEO of Jack Link's Protein Snacks, and Sasquatch
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Jack Link's: Messin' with snacks

Jack Link's Protein Snacks believes meat to be seriously underappreciated by consumers as a healthy option for protein and performance, and it plans to shake up the snack category with a major increase in household penetration for meat snacks.
Andy Hanacek
February 20, 2018
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Minong, Wis.- based Jack Link’s Protein Snacks has been no stranger to success. Having spent the last several decades building what some would consider the quintessential meat snacks brand (complete with Sasquatch spokesbeast) in Jack Link’s, the team has not become less aggressive.
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Blake Evans and Gerald Lessard of Crystal Lake Farms
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Crystal Lake Farms' mission: crystal clear

Crystal Lake Farms may produce slow-growth chickens, but it has experienced fast-growing success; its acquisition by West Liberty Foods provides the stimulus to advance its "Better Bird" mission further and even faster.
Andy Hanacek
January 19, 2018
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Crystal Lake Farms already had put together an impressive run of success as retailers and foodservice operators committed to offering slow-growth chicken products — and West Liberty Foods saw an opportunity to add to its portfolio a premium offering, as well as its first retail brand.
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Paradise Locker Meats Pork

Paradise Meats Farm to Fork Pork

A nationwide farm-to-fork program means that some of the country's most desirable, heritage-breed pork products comes through Paradise Locker Meats.
Sam Gazdziak
December 27, 2017
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Today, Paradise Locker Meats has a line of retail products called Fantasma's Finest, which is gaining brand awareness in the Kansas City area. It also has a farm-to-fork program that supplies natural pork from heritage breeds to discerning customers around the country.


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True Story Foods Founders
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True Story Foods: Telling the whole story

Sam Gazdziak
December 13, 2017
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The meat company's name — typically one of the first things a consumer sees on a label — must help to establish not only the brand’s identity, but also its philosophy. True Story Foods, founded in 2011, evokes the type of honesty and transparency that consumers want, just from its name alone.
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The management team at CS Beef Packers’ Kuna, Idaho, plant
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CS Beef Packers: A new hope

For more than a decade, southern Idaho’s cattle industry has been in need of a local processing solution, and CS Beef Packers — a joint venture between Simplot and Caviness Beef — plans to capitalize on that demand with efficiency, quality and right-sized growth.
Andy Hanacek
November 17, 2017
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The CS Beef plant was built on the beef industry experience of the Caviness team and the business will be supported by that expertise and the worldwide reach and acumen that Simplot brings to the table.
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David Bulgarelli, Dave Piotrowski, James Jendruczek and Michael Lookingland, of Rantoul Foods
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Rantoul Foods: Built for tomorrow

Pork processor Rantoul Foods has grown quickly and somewhat quietly in six years, by setting high standards for its process and building with the future in mind.
Andy Hanacek
September 13, 2017
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When James Jendruczek and Alan Bressler, owners of Trim-Rite Inc., envisioned the growth of their company, never did they believe they’d need to get into the slaughter business.


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