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Company Profile
Based in Austin, MN, Hormel Foods is a multinational manufacturer and marketer of high-quality, brand-name food and meat products for consumers throughout the world.
Our Products
Hormel Foods has more than 34 brands in the No. 1 or No. 2 market-share position. Our business segments are:
- Grocery Products, which includes Hormel® chili, Hormel® Compleats® microwave meals, CHI-CHI’S® Mexican products, Dinty Moore® stew, Herdez® products, the SPAM® family of products and Valley Fresh® chunk chicken;
- Refrigerated Foods, which includes Hormel® Always Tender® fresh meats, Hormel® Black Label® bacon, Hormel® refrigerated entrees and Hormel® Natural Choice® meats;
- Jennie-O Turkey Store® products such as Oven Ready Turkey™, turkey burgers, fresh ground turkey and deli-sliced lunch meat;
- Specialty Foods, which includes Diamond Crystal Brands, and Century Foods International; and
- All other products including the international varieties of the SPAM® family of products, Stagg® chili and microwavable meal options.
Many of our products have become among the best-known and trusted in the food industry, and the favorites of families everywhere. These products are sold to retail, foodservice and wholesale operations in all 50 states through a direct sales force. A list of our products can be found in our Products section. With more than 19,000 employees, Hormel Foods is owned by approximately 11,600 shareholders of record. Hormel Foods common stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol HRL.
Our Values. Our Way.
Under the principles of Our Way, which describes our overarching approach to people, process, products and performance, we also have developed a principles platform, which more specifically defines our goals and our commitments. Launched in 2007, this platform identifies how we specifically commit to live out these principles in the five key areas. We remain grounded in the values established by our founder George A Hormel more than 117 years ago, and aim to continue to be a company committed to corporate responsibility.
Visit our corporate Web site to learn more about Our Way and our principles platform.
Locations
Austin, MN, is home to the headquarters of Hormel Foods, along with its Research and Development division and flagship plant. In fiscal year 2008, the company acquired Boca Grande Foods, a manufacturer of liquid portion products. Also, a new plant in Dubuque, IA is under construction and expected to be completed in 2010.
Parent-company manufacturing communities:
- Austin, MN;
- Algona, IA;
- Alma, KS;
- Atlanta, GA;
- Beloit, WI;
- Fremont, NE;
- Fort Dodge, IA;
- Knoxville, IA;
- Osceola, IA;
- Rochelle, IL;
- Stockton, CA; and
- Wichita, KS.
Select Hormel Foods products are custom-manufactured by independent companies that adhere to stringent corporate guidelines and quality standards.
Our Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries
Hormel Foods is a multinational manufacturer and marketer of high-quality, brand-name food and meat products.
Jennie-O Turkey Store, a wholly owned subsidiary based in Willmar, MN, is the nation's second-largest producer of whole- and processed-turkey products sold to retail and foodservice outlets.
Another wholly owned subsidiary, Dan's Prize Inc., headquartered in Gainesville, GA, operates manufacturing plants in Long Prairie, MN, and Browerville, MN, and produces roast beef, corned beef, prime rib, pastrami and other cooked meats for foodservice and deli operators.
Hormel Foods International Corporation (HFIC), a wholly owned subsidiary in Austin, MN, has established joint venture and license agreements internationally, which include Australia, China, Denmark, England, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Panama, the Philippines and other nations. HFIC exports products to more than 40 countries.
Affiliations and Awards
Hormel Foods is a member of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Climate Leaders program and endorses and requires hog producers and employees of these producers who handle hogs to be trained and certified by the National Pork Board’s Pork Quality Assurance Plus® and Transport Quality Assurance® programs. In addition, we are members of National Pork Producers Council, Grocery Manufacturers of America, National Pork Board, National Turkey Federation and others. See Industry Affiliations for more information.
We are also proud of awards won during the reporting period. These include:
- Progressive Grocer Category Captains
- Category Captain in the Perimeter: Fixed/Variable Meats Party Tray category
- Category Advisor in the Perimeter: Fixed/Variable Deli Meats
- Men's Health magazine Nutrition Award for “Best Packaged Cold Cuts”
- Health magazine Best of Food Award for Marrakesh Express Mango Salsa CousCous
- Women’s Health magazine 2008 125 Best Packaged Foods for Women – Best Deli Meat
- Prepared Foods magazine Spirit of Innovation Awards — Austin Blues Pulled Chicken
- Progressive Grocer magazine Editor’s Pick — Supreme Party Tray
- Progressive Grocer magazine Top Women in Grocery
- Worker Safety Awards by the American Meat Institute
- National Provisioner magazine HR Evolution Awards
- American Meat Institute Environmental MAPS Awards
- 2008 Processor of the Year by National Provisioner magazine
- Refrigerated and Forzen Foods magazine Top 150 Food Processors
- Food & Beverage Packaging magazine Top 100 Packagers
- Barron’s 500
- Forbes Global 2000
- Forbes 400 Best Big Companies
- FORTUNE 500
- Industry Week IW 1000
- Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal 50 Largest Employers
- Star Tribune ST 100
- Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal Top 100
Public Companies
- Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal Women to Watch
- Financial Times FT500
- China's Top Employers in the Shanghai Region
- PRSA Chicago Skyline Awards
- Institutional Programs/Business Products: Hormel Foods Corporate Reputation Program
- Media Kits: Hormel Foods Ohio Hunger Summit Media Kit
- Speeches: Food Safety in a Global Context
- Holmes’ Group Bronze SABRE Award for Food Safety in a Global Context
- Publicity Club of Chicago Silver Trumpet Award
Web site Awards
- Astrid Awards: Silver, Hermes: Platinum www.hormelfoodsrecipes.com
- Astrid Awards: Silver, Galaxy: Honors, Hermes: Gold, iNova: Bronze, Marcom: Platinum, Mercury: Gold – www.hormelnatural.com
- Astrid Awards: Honors, Hermes: Honorable Mention – www.hormelfoods.com
- iNova: Honors, Marcom: Honorable Mention, W3: Silver – (Oven Ready)