Hormel Foods Donation Helps Fight Hunger in Austin
Austin, Minn.
“Our team is honored to join The Salvation Army and Hot Meals on Wheels to help support hunger relief in our area,” said Clint Walters, plant manager of the Austin Plant. “I would like to thank our employees, whose dedication and hard work make it possible to help those in need. On behalf of Hormel Foods, we are excited to help do our part in making a difference.”
This is the seventh consecutive year Hormel Foods has given funds to its U.S. manufacturing facilities to share with nonprofits in their respective communities to fight hunger. In 2016, Hormel Foods donated $350,000 to local hunger relief organizations in 35 U.S. communities where it had manufacturing facilities, bringing the program’s total contribution to local hunger relief efforts to more than $2 million thus far. Through this program as well as disaster relief efforts and other donations, Hormel Foods contributed $7.4 million in cash and product donations to help address hunger in fiscal 2016.
“Hormel Foods is committed to fighting hunger in communities around the world where our employees work and live,” said Wendy Watkins, vice president of corporate communications at Hormel Foods. “By working with organizations at a local level, our plants have found great success in helping meet their community’s unique needs to help end hunger.”
Additional information about the company’s fiscal 2016 hunger relief efforts is available in the Hormel Foods 2016 Corporate Responsibility Report.