Packaged Goods

Preferred Meal Systems Corporate Office

Preferred Meal Systems was founded in 1967 under the name Mass Feeding Corporation. The company was one of the first to provide meal solutions on a large scale for schools.

The company provides meals, fresh-prepared snacks and frozen-prepared snacks, entrees, and complete meals for contract catering and home delivery, with most meals being prepared for schools and senior living associations. The company name was changed in 1984. As of May of 2016, the company operates as a subsidiary of Elior North America.

Preferred Meal Systems maintains headquarters in Berkeley, Illinois, and has offices in most major cities across the US.

Preferred Meal Systems

Preferred Meal Systems was founded in 1967 under the name Mass Feeding Corporation. The company was one of the first to provide meal solutions on a large scale for schools.

Preferred Meal Systems maintains headquarters in Berkeley, Illinois, and has offices in most major cities across the US.

History

Caldwell Fresh Foods Corporate Office

Caldwell Fresh Foods was founded in 1949 in Los Angeles, California, by Jack Caldwell. Caldwell cleaned and cut up coleslaw, then put it in bags to be sold at the local market. Soon, the demand for pre-packaged foods grew and Caldwell had to relocate to a larger facility near the old Wholesale Produce Market.

Today, Caldwell Fresh Foods is one of the largest producers of pre-packed food items in the US. The company offers custom preparation, processing, and packing of fresh produce and salads, including vegetables for stir fry, precut and cleaned tomatoes and celery for retail sale, produce departments, and/or the restaurant trade. Certified organic vegetables are also available.

The company is still family owned and operated, with headquarters located in Maywood, California. In 2007, the company constructed a new, 15,000 square foot state-of-the-art processing facility.

Caldwell Fresh Foods

The company is still family owned and operated, with headquarters located in Maywood, California. In 2007, the company constructed a new, 15,000 square foot state-of-the-art processing facility.

History

Ynot Foods Corporate Office

Ynot Foods was founded in Cape Coral, Florida, in 2006. The company operates a frozen food and prepackaged food manufacturing operation.

The company operates mainly within the business/wholesale sector, offering sauces, a wide variety of cheese, cheese blends, and prepackaged cheese shapes, dairy based sauces, Italian based sauces, frozen fruit chips for smoothies, as well as vegetable chips, one bowl breakfast or “skillet” type frozen meals . Ynot Foods employs approximately 14 people and had an estimated annual revenue in 2015 of $9.4 million.

Ynot Foods has a USDA certified facility in Lincoln Park, Michigan. The company uses thousands of recipe profiles to create a wide variety of individually quick frozen food products. Company headquarters are located in Cape Coral, Florida.

Ynot Foods

Ynot Foods was founded in Cape Coral, Florida, in 2006. The company operates a frozen food and prepackaged food manufacturing operation.

History

Oscar Mayer Corporate Office

Oscar Mayer was founded in 1883 in Chicago, Illinois, by brothers Oscar and Gottfried Mayer. The brothers were butchers who opened their own shop and sold bratwurst at the County Fair. The company grew quickly, and by 1904, had 43 employees. Oscar Mayer was the first company to volunteer for the federal meat inspection program in 1906.

The company continues to sell meat and cold cut products, such as hot dogs, ham, and bacon. Kraft Heinz acquired the company in 1989. Oscar Mayer is often remembered due to their popular commercials in the 1960’s and early 1970’s, which featured a song that included the name, as well as the company’s ” Wienermobile”, which is a car with a huge hot dog perched on top. This item was also a toy offered inside packages of hot dogs in the 1960’s.

In June 2002, the company agreed to pay OSHA a fine of $211,000 following the death of a worker due to an ammonia release. The company also agreed to conduct a safety training of all employees.

Today, Oscar Mayer has more than 1,650 employees. The company maintains a corporate office in Madison, Wisconsin.

Oscar Mayer

History

In June 2002, the company agreed to pay OSHA a fine of $211,000 following the death of a worker due to an ammonia release. The company also agreed to conduct a safety training of all employees.

Today, Oscar Mayer has more than 1,650 employees. The company maintains a corporate office in Madison, Wisconsin.

Nabisco Corporate Office

The Original Nabisco Factory 1899

Nabisco can trace its roots as far back as 1792 when Pearson and Sons opened their bakery. They featured a biscuit called pilot bread, which was meant to last a long time on sea voyages. This biscuit was later called a “cracker”. In 1889, William Moore acquired 7 local bakeries and put them together as one business under the name New York Biscuit Company.

Adolphus Green started the American Biscuit Company in 1890. He was also acquiring bakeries and in 1898, Green, Moore, and another bakery owner, John Zeller, merged to form the National Biscuit Company. Green was the first CEO.

The company worked on designing a package which would make their biscuits last longer and remain fresh. This was the founding of the “In-Er Seal package”, introduced in 1898. The In-Er seal was simply folded wax paper and cardboard, but it was revolutionary in its time.

The first mention of the word Nabisco appears in 1901 on a cracker. Soon afterwards, the cookie Fig Newton also began to be marketed.

Oreo cookies are perhaps the biggest seller in the Nabisco line-up. First appearing in 1912, the origin of the name is unknown. The original name was the Oreo Biscuit, which was later changed to Oreo Sandwich, then again to the Oreo Sandwich Cookie we know today. In the 1920’s lemon filled Oreos were popular, but they have since been discontinued. In the early 1990’s, health concerns caused Nabisco to change from using lard to partially hydrogenated vegetable oil. This was changed again in 2006 when the company realized their cookies contained trans fats. Nabisco now uses non-hydrogenated vegetable oil.

Today, Nabisco is one of the largest manufacturers of snacks, crackers, and cookies in the US. Their baking plant in Chicago, Illinois, is the largest bakery in the world, with more than 1,200 employees and making more than 320 million pounds of snacks each year. The company was purchased by Mondelez International in 2012.

In August 2018, the company redesigned its well-known box of Animal Crackers to remove the bars that surrounded commonly found zoo animals and instead used pictures of animals in their more natural habitat, after PETA petitioned the company to stop promoting zoos.

Nabisco used RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant from season 10, Miss Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, to advertise Chip Ahoy! cookies for Mother’s Day and it angered many conservatives.

The company also distributed special edition Oreos in pink, blue and purple with the slogan “Ask me my pronoun” for gay pride in NYC. The cookies weren’t sold in stores and were promotional items only but this angered many conservatives who called for a boycott.

The company is best known for crackers and cookie brands such as Oreos, Wheat Thins, Ritz Crackers, and Chips Ahoy! Nabisco’s logo looks similar to an antenna atop a circle. The company states that this is an early European symbol for quality.

Nabisco

The Original Nabisco Factory 1899

History

The first mention of the word Nabisco appears in 1901 on a cracker. Soon afterwards, the cookie Fig Newton also began to be marketed.

Nabisco used RuPaul’s Drag Race contestant from season 10, Miss Vanessa Vanjie Mateo, to advertise Chip Ahoy! cookies for Mother’s Day and it angered many conservatives.