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Check out the May 2019 issue of The National Provisioner, featuring our cover story on the acquisition of Wellshire Farms by Land O’Frost, our annual Top 100 Meat & Poultry Processors report, and much more!
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.
After several years of record sales and optimism, meat and poultry processors featured in our annual Top 100 Processors Report display a more cautious outlook for the industry.
In recent years, our annual Top 100 Processors Report was littered with constant references to record sales, best years ever and rosy outlooks for the future. That has, at least temporarily, come to a halt in the 2019 edition, as processors are realizing they face slower sales and looming problems.
A 2016 lawsuit brought against Hormel Foods is once again in the headlines. The case, brought by the Animal Defense Legal Fund (ALDF), arose from allegations that Hormel's "Make the Natural Choice" advertisements violated consumer protection laws by materially misleading consumers.
Foreign affairs: Processors must leverage appropriate technologies, inspections and training programs to minimize product contamination from foreign objects.
