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Quality Candy Company is a leading manufacturer and distributor of high quality hard candy and soft sugar candy. In addition to a leading position in the foodservice market, Quality Candy produces and sells two distinct lines of branded products: King Leo®, the oldest continuously sold brand of peppermint candy, dating back to 1901; and Gilliam®, a brand of colorful stick candy and high quality hard candy dating back to 1927. Combined, the two brands make Quality Candy the leading manufacturer of stick candy in North America. Quality Candy also provides contract manufacturing services to leading marketers of both mass and niche product lines.
In business for over 65 years, Sparboe Farms is a shell egg company in Minnesota owned and lead by Beth Schnell. Beth, a third-generation poultry farmer, along with her three daughters and their dedicated and experienced team, supply fresh commodity and specialty shell eggs from farms in Minnesota, Iowa and Colorado to retail, wholesale, and foodservice customers across the United States. Sparboe is known for their superior quality, best in class food safety programs and excellent customer service, earning them decades long relationships with customers big and small.
We`re real people, using real ingredients, to make really good foods. Our young and fast-growing company focuses on state-of-the-art processes, eco-friendly initiatives and food safety as a priority. High pressure processing (HPP) is how we create preservative-free, great-tasting products with the best nutritional value, so our customers and retail partners can enjoy their food and their lives. Our mission at Good Foods is simple: to provide healthy and delicious food to people everywhere. We create meaningful relationships through trust and transparency and believe in taking the time to do things right. We`re committed to developing better foods that are made with high- quality ingredients, full of flavor and safe for everyone. We combine our culinary expertise with consumer research and food technology, so we can lead the food world and cultivate goodness within our products, employees, consumers and communities. People have always been our most important asset. Yes, we have a modern facility and sophisticated equipment, but Good Foods employees are the real reason for our success and why we received recognition from national media such as Good Housekeeping and GOOP. Through the years, our company has developed a skilled workforce of which we are very proud. We continue to rely on the talents and abilities of our people to help us grow.
Snyder`s-Lance creates and markets snack foods throughout the United States and internationally. The company`s snack pantry includes pretzels, sandwich crackers, potato chips, cookies, tortilla chips, restaurant-style crackers, nuts and so much more. Snyder`s-Lance has production facilities in 9 states. Our good eats are distributed widely through grocery and mass merchandisers, convenience stores, club stores, food service outlets and other channels.
What if you weren`t afraid to read the ingredients on a hot dog package? Or better yet, what if you weren`t afraid to know where the meat in your hot dog came from? These questions were the inspiration behind Applegate. I grew up in the meat and potatoes era of the 1950s, when a meal wasn`t a meal without meat. However, when I went away to college in the `70`s, my ideas about food expanded. There, I was exposed to vegetarianism, macrobiotics, and food gurus. In the co-op I belonged to, we bought granola, yogurt, and grains in bulk, and ate them with local fruits and vegetables. While I appreciated the quality and health benefits of these foods, I still craved meat. While shopping one day, I saw nitrite-free bacon and had an epiphany: I could feel good about eating meat if it didn`t contain ingredients I knew were bad for me. Meat and I were reunited. In my 20s I tried my hand at a number of different jobs, none of which satisfied my desire to build something from the ground up. I started looking for a business to grow and stumbled upon Jugtown Smokehouse through a combination of intuition and serendipity. At the time, Jugtown was a family owned business specializing in nitrite-free bacon (de ja-vu!). While it bore no resemblance to what Applegate is today, I could see its potential. I also knew there had to be more people out there who would appreciate healthy meat products, and decided to buy the business. As it turns out, countless people have a love/hate relationship with meat and are thrilled to find products they can finally feel good about eating. People like you have helped build Applegate over the last 25 years. With that support, you`ve helped preserve the nearly 1,000 farms that supply us with humanely raised meat that is free from antibiotics or hormones. So…What if you weren`t afraid to read the ingredients on a hot dog package? Like me, you`d feel better about eating them, and serving them to your family. That simple idea has always been, and will continue to be, what drives Applegate. From our table to yours, thank you for joining the movement.