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The Quaker Oats Company is an American food conglomerate based in Chicago. It has been owned by PepsiCo since 2001. This unit of PepsiCo produces breakfast cereals, snacks, rice and pasta. Includes details of branded products and access to recipe database.
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. Our commitment shows in all we do, from careful ingredient selection to the thriving communities we serve. Our culinary team takes pride in crafting frozen foods for stores, schools, foodservice and home delivery. Schwan`s Home Delivery has service in every state in the continental U.S., and our other business units market brands such as Red Baron®, Tony`s®, Bon Appetit™ and Freschetta® pizzas, Pagoda® Asian-style appetizers, and Mrs. Smith`s® and Edwards® frozen desserts All references throughout this page to The Schwan Food Company with respect to trademarks, employees, logos, manufacturing facilities and products are to the subsidiaries of The Schwan Food Company.
Since the Mi Rancho grocery store first opened its doors in 1939, hard work and passion have brought us success, as we now produce over 4.5 million tortillas a day, roughly 1.3 billion tortillas each year. We employ true artisan bakers and professionals, with some of our employees having worked here as long as I have. Remaining loyal to our roots, we only use California corn and flour. While we have grown, we refuse to grow into a “tortilla factory.” Just like we did so many years ago, we continue to follow the authentic techniques to produce delicious tortillas I’m proud to serve to my own family. We can taste the difference and we hope you can, too. Welcome to Mi Rancho.
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.
Emmi (USA), Inc. produces and imports cheeses products. The company offers traditional, cave aged, specialty, and processed cheese products, as well as fondue and lactose free yogurt cheese; and vegetable quesadillas, spiral breadsticks, gruyere rings, turkey burgers, filet mignon, red potato rosti, cauliflower gruyere soup, and pork tenderloin. It offers its products through retail shops. Emmi (USA), Inc. was formerly known as Emmi Gerber Cheese & Co. Inc. and changed its name to Emmi (USA), Inc. in January 2004. The company was founded in 1920 and is based in Orangeburg, New York. Emmi (USA), Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Emmi AG.