| Name | Title | Contact Details |
|---|
Beyond Meat is planting The Future of Protein. We bypass the animal altogether and make delicious and nutritious products like chicken strips, burgers, and beef crumbles directly from plants. Our products enable families to continue to eat what they love—like beef nachos, chili, pasta Bolognese, and chicken fajitas—without the health and other downsides of animal protein. We are dedicated to positively impacting human health and the health of our world. Beyond Meat is available in Whole Foods, Target, Safeway, Publix, Walmart and 11,000 stores nationwide and sold through various food service distributors.
Chew is a food innovation lab that redefines what’s possible in the world of packaged food. Chew partners with companies of all sizes to create game-changing products that are not only delicious, but also radically more nutritious than anything else on the market, profitable, sustainable and scalable. We`re a dedicated team of passionate chefs, food scientists, and manufacturing experts. Our partners come to us because we can transform an inkling of an idea into something unbelievable to taste in a matter of days or weeks, not years. We refuse to compromise on nutrition, taste, and sustainability all while pushing the boundaries of scalability and manufacturing practices. Our mission is to give consumers better choices when they walk down the aisle of the grocery store.
In 1960, a small meat processing operation named Quaker Maid Meats was founded. Since then, this family-owned company has grown to over 100 workers in three production plants. Originally, wafer-thin-sliced beef filets (muscle steaks) were the company’s mainstay. Soon Quaker Maid added breaded veal and beef patties, primarily for the institutional and restaurant markets and began manufacturing a variety of other portion-controlled meat products. In 1968, the company acquired a parcel of land on Carroll Street in Reading, PA, where its main plant is still located. Growth continued with ""Buttered Beef Steaks"" and ""Cubed Beef Steaks,"" along with a solid muscle sandwich steak, hamburger patties and veal steaks. In the early 1970’s, rising beef prices created the need to develop a chopped and formed sandwich steak. This product became the company's largest mainstay growth item and allowed it to compete directly with national brand, Steak-umm®. Because of the sandwich steak's success, the first expansion of the Carroll Street plant also took place during this time. In late 1979, Quaker Maid formulated its version of the fully cooked Italian style meatball (later named Mama Lucia Italian Style Meatballs), adding another item to help customers fill out their orders. The company also designed a continuous meatball-forming, freezing operation that revolutionized the manufacturing process. The meatballs helped expand Quaker Maid’s market share on the Eastern seaboard and into the Chicago market. In 1985, the company purchased another production facility to accommodate the meatball growth. Within two years, additional production capacity was required to support the entire product line. In 1987 the company purchased additional land in Reading in preparation for a new facility. In 1990 ground was broken for a new 4,000-square-foot office building, additional 15,000 square feet of processing area, and 10,000 square feet of freezer and tempering room. In 2005 a third plant was built to again increase capacity, bringing Quaker Maid's total production facility size to over 110,000 square feet. Quaker Maid's product line is continuously updated and currently includes all-beef sandwich steaks and fully cooked meatballs that are quick and easy to prepare, nutritious, and packaged under a variety of brand labels. Distribution spans all the major supermarkets and many large food service establishments throughout the United States and Bermuda. Quaker Maid continually implements the newest technologies available to produce the highest quality products and enhance the plants’ safety and sanitary environment. Our quality assurance department has been certified by the United States Department of Agriculture to participate in their TQC (Total Quality Control) program. Although we are constantly monitored by the USDA, this certification shifts the major responsibility from federal meat inspectors to our own quality assurance staff. Today, Quaker Maid Meats, Inc. remains a family-operated business with an unswerving dedication to quality, value and service. Our goal remains simple: to provide superior portion-controlled frozen meat products, manufactured with the best natural ingredients available, delivered to our customers at a fair and reasonable price.
Next Phase Enterprises is a full-service sales, marketing, and logistics team of professionals with more than 500 years of combined industry experience. They serve the Mass Merchandise, Club, and Grocery channels which include Walmart, Sam’s Club, Cost...
Importer, Distributor & Contract Manufacturer of Premium Fish Oils, Vitamins & Nutrients for People & Pets in Bulk or Private Label Packaged. Contact us!