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Performance Food Group Company (PFG) is an American company that was founded in 1885 in Richmond, Virginia, by food peddler James Capers. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Headquartered in Goochland County, Virginia (just outside Richmond), the company distributes a range of food products, and has more than 22,000 employees.
Naturally Fresh was founded in 1966 as Eastern Foods by Robert H. Brooks, the founder of Hooters of America, to sell non-dairy creamer to the airline industry. In 1980, Eastern Foods launched the Naturally Fresh brand and in 2002 the company name was changed to reflect the brand.
This article is a list of notable brand name food products that are presently produced as well as discontinued or defunct, organized by the type of product. This list also includes brand-name beverage mix products.
The investment enabled the company to scale its sampling efforts to get more people to try Kind bars. When VMG got involved, Kind bars were only sold in 20,000 locations and Lubetzky's sampling budget was $800. [5] By 2009, that budget was $800,000 and offering free samples became a large part of the Kind marketing plan. [4]
Over 120 years after its founding, the company still operates at its original location on The Hill in St. Louis. [6] The company is family-owned and has passed to the third and fourth generations of ownership and operation. [3] In 2020, Volpi's Heritage Prosciutto was a Good Food Awards winner. [2] [7]
It was renamed Fletcher Fine Foods in 1984. [2] In 2000, the company re-branded to Premium Brands. [3] The company sold its Fletcher's business in 2004. [3] In 2005, it converted to an income trust, but it converted back to a normal corporation in 2009, through a complex deal with Thallion Pharmaceuticals. [4]
The company launched its first products on Mother's Day in 2006 – a line of organic, fresh-frozen baby meals sold through a New York grocery store chain. [ 4 ] By 2010, Happy Family grew to more than $13 million in sales and was ranked 68th in Inc. Magazine's list of fastest-growing companies, with three-year growth of over 3,000%. [ 4 ]
Muyuan was founded by husband and wife Qin Yinglin and Qian Ying, who started their first farm in 1992. [2] By 1994, they had 2,000 pigs, and by 1997 they had 10,000. In 2000, Qin founded Muyuan Farming (牧原养殖), the company that would eventually become Muyuan Foodstuff. [3]