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After 30 years in business, Busseto Foods returns to its roots with new artisan salami products.

Smithfield Foods takes a proactive approach to showing the public the truth about how it does business, from farm to plate and beyond.

Superior Farms creates new opportunities for itself rather than waiting for them to come. As one of the country’s largest lamb processors, any action Superior Farms takes has a ripple effect throughout the industry.

Although Maple Leaf Foods has always been committed to food safety, the deadly 2008 listeriosis outbreak traced back to some of its products forced the company to adopt more rigorous food-safety processes.

As the national and global economy began to unravel in 2008 and 2009, many companies ran for the hills, begged for answers and reinvented or rebooted their entire strategic plan in order to compensate for the fear that littered the headlines.

Isernio’s Sausage Co. has always been more of a leader than a follower. While other companies experiment with trendy flavor profiles and inclusions, the company has favored classic varieties and proven formulations.

With a population of eight to 10 million Muslims in the United States, plus more than one billion overseas, the Islamic market represents a vast, potentially lucrative market for any company involved in the food industry. The challenge, however, is in providing food that both tastes good and is appropriate for the target population.

From its initial announcement 10 months ago, the merger of Pierre Foods, Advance Food Co. and Advance Brands was touted as a perfect fit — a unification of “wonderfully complementary” companies under one corporate umbrella.

Through its 74-year history, RMH Foods has gone through many evolutions. Beginning as a custom butchering operation, the company has been a slaughter/processor, a specialty retail store and a fully cooked meats processor. It has operated both as an independent company and as a subsidiary of one of the largest meat processors in the country.

GL Foods plans to ride the popularity of high-pressure pasteurization (HPP) and grow into a multi-facility co-packer and HPP services provider.