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The acquisition of Wellshire Farms by Land O’Frost has gone about as swimmingly as both sides could have expected one year into the integration — now, the unified team has its sights set on bigger and better opportunities.
David Van Eekeren, president and CEO of Land O'Frost, explains that Wellshire provides the opportunity for Land O'Frost to capitalize on a completely new set of consumers while meeting the need to fit into the Land O'Frost family from a corporate culture perspective.
In its quest to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2025, Smithfield Foods has made significant leaps forward, through innovative manure-to-energy technology and total supply-chain assessment and reorganization.
In December 2016, Smithfield Foods — the world's largest pork processor and hog producer — made known to the world its plan to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25 percent across its entire supply chain by the year 2025.
Stampede Meat responded to its customers' requests by acquiring and renovating a processing plant in Sunland Park, N.M., well-suited to its future needs.
What follows is a portion of Andy Hanacek's one-on-one interview with president & CEO Brock Furlong, who walked Hanacek through the acquisition of the plant, how the renovation proceeded and what the new facility means for Stampede Meat's future.
Tyson Fresh Meats saw growing demand for higher-quality pork eating experiences and began to feature its "best of the best" products through its newest brand — Chairman's Reserve Prime Pork.
Seeing the increasing consumer demand for high-quality eating experiences, Tyson Fresh Meats, a division of Tyson Foods, shuffled its Chairman's Reserve Premium Pork brand to highlight the best products in the line and launch a new brand: Chairman's Reserve Prime Pork.
Hormel Foods has supercharged its newest growth engine — the Deli Solutions group — and looks to outpace the competition to the winner's circle in the deli marketplace.
In February 2018, Hormel Foods began a major modification to its own symbolic vehicle, when chairman of the board, president and CEO Jim Snee announced the formation of a new business group — today named the Deli Solutions group — and stated, unequivocally, that the supermarket deli business would be a powerful growth engine for the company moving forward.
When industry history books look back on the year 2017 for Butterball LLC, there's little doubt they will consider it one of the more challenging years on record for the Garner, N.C.-based turkey processor.
Rastelli Foods Group has transformed itself as the go-to protein processor in the e-commerce (and home-shopping) segment, all while building its retail brand and growing its legacy retail, foodservice and export businesses.
Based on the success Rastelli Foods Group has experienced in the last year, the protein processor has been named The National Provisioner's 2018 Processor of the Year.
Many processors strive to diversify their business plans, but in fact, few achieve as much success as J&B Group has, having evolved into a "manufacturing distribution logistics organization," in the words of company president Chuck Weum.
Nicole Johnson-Hoffman begins her first term as president of the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef, placing an emphasis on inclusion of many diverse voices focused on continuous improvement of the global beef value chain.
Andy Hanacek, editor-in-chief of The National Provisioner, sat down with Nicole Johnson-Hoffman to discuss the Global Roundtable for Sustainable Beef (GRSB) and its mission, as well as her goals for the group and its members moving forward.
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.
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.
