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Driven by a passion for food, Marvin Schwan started a company tradition of delivering delicious foods right to people`s doorsteps. Still privately owned, we`ve grown from “one-man-and-a-truck” in rural Minnesota to a multibillion-dollar operation with thousands of team members nationwide that make up our home delivery, foodservice and consumer brands business units.
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.
In 1977, a butcher and artisan named Celestino “Charlie” Mirarchi started making jerky. Charlie was definitely a doer. In fact, he was so busy making jerky that he couldn`t devote much time to selling it. So, his snacks remained a hidden gem—until Eugene and Susan Kang discovered it at a roadside stand on a trip to the Grand Canyon. They loved the jerky so much they decided to track down the maker. Soon, the trio went into business together—with a mission to share their meaty secret with the world.
From beverage solutions and sauces to marinades and seasonings, ILLES Foods has provided custom-crafted culinary creations and R&D expertise to food service chains chains, food manufacturers, and grocery retailers across the US for almost 100 years. The family-owned and woman-run company is a key partner to companies looking for product development excellence, creativity, and speed to market paired with a laser focus on a better customer experience. The values we`ve learned and lived over the years — trust, food safety, excellence, creativity, teamwork, giving back to the community — motivate our people to help our customers be better with us than without us, and are the driving forces behind our growth. ILLES Foods was started by Austrian-Hungarian Olympian-turned-chemist Arpad Enoch (A.E.) in his home`s extra bedroom. Today the company operates two different manufacturing plants – a total of about 300,000 square feet between dry and liquid production. 2020 marked a new era at ILLES Foods, with Cristin Illes Kahale, the founder`s great-granddaughter and the fourth generation of the family, taking helm of the business.