| Name | Title | Contact Details |
|---|---|---|
Joe Guptill |
Vice President Of Technology | Profile |
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.
ZENB meals harness the goodness of nature to create more mindful food. Discover delicious, plant-based, non-GMO, and Gluten-Free Pasta, Gourmet Sauce and Veggie Snacks.
At Glanbia Nutritionals our purpose is to deliver better nutrition for every step of life’s journey. We achieve this through our diverse portfolio of both dairy and non-dairy nutritional ingredients. Glanbia Nutritionals sells a total of 400,000 tonnes of cheese per annum and are the leader in the American-style cheese market. Along with this, Glanbia Nutritionals is the number one provider of whey based nutritional solutions and the number two producer of premixes in the world. Nutrition is at the core of Glanbia Nutritionals’ business, whether it’s in the form of 640lb blocks of natural cheese, specialised value-added protein systems or micronutrient premixes. Nutrition has never been more relevant to the global market than it is today. As a large global provider of ingredient solutions, this provides huge opportunity for Glanbia Nutritionals. Our protein systems have transformed the bar and beverage categories over several years facilitating increased levels of protein, cleaner labels and greater product functionality. Glanbia Nutritionals aim is to ensure that Glanbia continues to leverage both dairy and non-dairy capabilities to meet the ever evolving demands of customers and end consumers across the globe. Glanbia Nutritionals has a truly global reach serving 83 countries. Our 2000 employees are based across 11 state of the art production facilities in the U.S, Germany and China, 38 sales offices and 3 innovation centres. Our 2015 revenue was €1.2bn. To everything we touch we add the perfect ingredient, building better nutrition for people everywhere… Just add Glanbia.
Future Meat Technologies is a FoodTech company that`s racing towards bringing delicious and cost effective cultivated meat to the market by 2023! We opened the world`s first industrial line for cultured meat, with the power to scale production of delicious cultured products that every household will love.
Tyson Foods, Inc., founded in 1935 with headquarters in Springdale, Arkansas, is the world`s largest processor and marketer of chicken, beef and pork, the second-largest food production company in the Fortune 500 and a member of the S&P 500. The company produces a wide variety of protein-based and prepared food products and is the recognized market leader in the retail and foodservice markets it serves. Tyson provides products and service to customers throughout the United States and more than 90 countries. The company has approximately 115,000 Team Members employed at more than 300 facilities and offices in the United States and around the world. Through its Core Values, Code of Conduct and Team Member Bill of Rights, Tyson strives to operate with integrity and trust and is committed to creating value for its shareholders, customers and Team Members. The company also strives to be faith-friendly, provide a safe work environment and serve as stewards of the animals, land and environment entrusted to it.